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Why should someone pay for a coworking event?
Cowo has taken part in several coworking events, such as the Coworking Europe conferences 2010 (Bruxelles) and 2011 (Berlin), and set up a couple of national coworking camps in Italy (CowoCamp 2010 and 2011). As new appointments approach (the Texas … Leggi l’articolo completo
Archiviato in Coworking Camp, Unconference, Meeting, Coworking News, In English
The Cowo Manifesto. What is coworking, in our opinion.
[See the Spanish version of the Cowo Manifesto here]
Massimo Carraro + Carsten Foertsch. An interview @ Coworking Europe 2011.
Courtesy of Awt.tv – Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications, we’re happy to share the interview to Cowo founder Massimo Carraro regarding the network and the coworking perspectives in Europe, and to journalist Carsten Foertsch of Deskmag, about the evolution of coworking ant … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Antoine van den Broek’s 5 answers.
Antoine van den Broek is involved – with his brother Eric among the others – in the Mutinerie coworking initiative, in Paris, France. Mutinerie only had a space for a short time, they are actually a nomadic community, travelling at … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Alberto Bassi’s 5 answers.
Sometimes you start building a commmunity even before the coworking space actually opens its doors. It’s what happens in Alessandria, Italy, where the lab121 group is warming up its future coworking community with events, seminars and meetups. Alberto Bassi, co-founder … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Jean-Yves Huwart’s 5 answers.
Jean-Yves Huwart is the organizer of the Coworking Europe Conference, both 2010 and 2011 editions. As he himself states (see answer no. 1) the discovery of the “coworking spirit” at The Hub Brussels was a revelation for him. From that … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Anni Roolf’s 5 answers.
Anni Roolf (MBA / project manager, innovation consultant, designer) organised the first european Jelly Week in January 2011, and the first Coworking Germany Barcamp in July 2011. Already in 2005 she experimented with a coworking space prototype in Wuppertal and … Leggi l’articolo completo
It’s Halloween time… watch out, coworkers!
Trick or treat? Cowo!
Archiviato in Coworking News, In English
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Manuel Zea’s 5 answers.
Manuel Zea is a Spanish architect, founder of 2arquitectos in 2006. In 2007 he founded one of the first coworking spaces in Spain: WorkingSpace. In 2010 he founded the directory Coworkingspain.es. and now works to link all the spaces and create … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Liu Yan’s 5 answers.
Liu Yan is the CEO and event curator of coworking space Xin Danwei (which means New Work Unit) Coworking, in Shanghai, one of the first spaces operating in China. Since 2004, Liu Yan has been advocating cross-culture and inter-disciplinary connection … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Mindaugas Danys’ 5 answers.
Mindaugas Danys is the manager of Hub Vilnius, the first coworking space of Lithuania. His space has been running for almost a year now, and he speaks about this experience as he answers Cowo’s 5 questions to the Coworking Europe Conference Members. … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Alexandre Khan’s and Marianne Wehbe’s 5 answers.
Alexandre Z. Khan and Marianne Wehbe are the coordinators of CocoAthens (Greece). CoCoAthens is a collaborative work platform and coworking space supporting the development of social, cultural, artistic and environmental projects in Athens. While Alexandre studied statistics and economics in Paris, Marianne … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Mazen Helmy’s 5 answers.
Mazen Helmy was born and raised in Egypt. Graduated from Cairo university with a bachelor degree in civil engineering, minoring in environmental and sanitary projects. He is the initiator of the “District Egypt” project. The District is designed to be … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Mattia Sullini’s 5 answers.
Mattia Sullini is known in the coworking community for at least three reasons. First of all, he’s the enthusiastic and proactive manager of his coworking space in Florence, Cowo Firenze/Mattonaia; secondly, he actively takes part in most coworking events (Cowocamp Italy … Leggi l’articolo completo
Coworking Europe Conference 2011: Italy is going, are you?
So far, quite a few members of the Italian coworking community are joining the Berlin Conference, in November 3-4-5. If you are not in the following list, please add your name in the comments, so that we can get in … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo’s 5 questions to Coworking Europe. Alex Hillman’s 5 answers.
We thank Alex Hillman – founder of IndyHall with Geoff Dimasi, and one of the most influental people in the global coworking community – for answering our 5 questions. Alex’s blog, Dangereously Awesome, is republished (with the author’s permission) on NomadWork’s home … Leggi l’articolo completo
Five questions to Coworking Europe Conference members.
Coworking Europe Conference 2011 is approaching. We are all excited about it, and proud to be among its Official Ambassadors. But… why not start talking now? Here we are, trying to break the physical boundaries of “being in Berlin in … Leggi l’articolo completo
Getting ready for Coworking Europe Conference in Berlin. (Are we?).
In a few weeks the Coworking Europe Conference will take place in Berlin. We have participated in the 2010 edition – held in Brussels – with a video and the presentation “What will be the future of coworking? Seven Cowoideas”, … Leggi l’articolo completo
“Coworking and the future of everything” by mayor Tony Bacigalupo. (And our two cents, too).
Please enjoy this presentation by Tony Bacigalupo, mayor of New Work City, one of the most inspiring coworking initiatives of the world, based in New York. Tony, besides being a very pleasant human being, is also one of the major … Leggi l’articolo completo
Cowo monthly newsletter, now available in English.
We are aware that more and more people from outside our country are following our project, so we decided that it’s time to issue our newsletter in English as well. We don’t want to spam anyone, so we will only … Leggi l’articolo completo
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Cowo goes to Europe. Almost ready to announce first Cowo space outside Italian borders.
Yes. The Cowo idea is crossing the borders. After 25 months, this project seems to be ready to leave home… once again, it was not the business plan (which we don’t have), it was not market research (which we don’t … Leggi l’articolo completo
