[Hidden-tech] Have you considered starting a new coworking space?

[ed at edbride-pr.com]

There's a coworking space in downtown Pittfsfield, called Framework. I don't know the cost structure, nor how they're doing, but here's what it looks like:

https://pittsfieldcoworking.com/about/

 

Ed Bride

 

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Love this, Ira. I haven't used these spaces (and rarely even work at coffee shops unless I need air conditioning on a hot afternoon, and then I go at a very off-peak time) so haven't given much thought to how one could succeed. I think shared reception services and meeting space are part of the formula, though.



Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm)

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 5:09 AM Ira Bryck via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net <mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> > wrote:

I think this could be an opportunity to create a place that’s more beneficial to members than the now conventional structure and function.

 

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the current template?

 

For me (please suggest your own)

 

STRENGTHS

A place that doesn’t distract like working at home

You belong there, not squatting at a coffee shop table that should be turning over more

People are working, not the mixed uses of a coffee shop (socializing, etc)

 

 

WEAKNESSES

Monthly subscription costs create pressure to use it more than is useful, or be wasting your money

Loud talkers, lack of privacy, even in glass closet

Need to find a booth, whenever you want to talk on the phone

All the negatives of a cubicle farm, without even those walls

 

 

POSSIBLE DESIGN SOLUTIONS

More flexible pricing

Membership that allows for multiple locations (ie: like using multiple planets fitness)

Pay with volunteerism in the host site (ie: if it was connected with a school or hospital)

Cubicle walls are sound absorbing panels, that can easily be rejiggered to create flex spaces

 

 

 

I think I know the location that Val is proposing, and agree this is an excellent location, and could be built to suit – there is now enough known about shared workspaces to design the next generation.

 

 

Ira Bryck

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 5:12 PM
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Love your idea Aaron and your interest in cooperatives and sociocracy.  

This space is more office like, not a maker space.

 

Val

 

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:38 AM Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net <mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> > wrote:

Co-working spaces in the Valley go back at least to the mid-80s and the Creamery Building on Fearing Street in Amherst. The person I've dealt with at Click is named Mary. I don't now her last name. She's always there for the arts events, anyway. There are also some cool Maker spaces in Holyoke (and I think Easthampton also) in some of the old mills that might be more suitable for fabrication.


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