civic infrastructure

Democracy Won't Be Born in Westminster. It's Being Built in Back Streets and Coworking Spaces.

LinkedIn Show Notes #39 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. Three people. Two continents. One pattern: They stopped waiting for the state to fix what's broken and started building the infrastructure themselves. This week from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen: We've been tracking a question that keeps showing up in different forms. What happens when the systems we rely on—democracy, childcare, the

A 17-Year-Old in a McKenzie Hoodie Just Destroyed the Entire Coworking Industry With One Question.

LinkedIn Show Notes #37 from the Coworking Values Podcast Bullpen. 🎙️ Listen to these stories and hundreds of others on the Coworking Values Podcast. In 2019, a 17-year-old in a McKenzie hoodie at Mainyard Studios in Hackney shouted at me from the back of a workshop: "What the fuck is coworking? Why don't you just call it work?" He was right. The trans inclusion consultant in London, the Armenian revolutionary in Yerevan, and the cooperative director in Finsbury Park all stopped playing