Howdy All, I am really interested in the notion of coworking as a tool for collaborative solution building covering a range of things from affordable work space and productivity centers to open resources for community innovation. Any thoughts, resources or general pointers are welcome.
Cheers, Dawn On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Matthew Wettergreen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Several weeks ago we applied for a Houston Rice Design Alliance grant. > The RDA provides a forum for thinking about and discussing design and > the built environment in Houston. They quote "continually seek to > strengthen the ties between the general community and those trained in > the various fields of architecture and design." We thought it would be > perfect to add coworking to that fold. > > The grant that we applied for combined a brief plan for coworking at > Caroline with the inclusion of an abstracted view of work completed by > another architecture graduate student, Brian Shepherdson. Brian's > thesis work examines the effect that urban sprawl has had on the > geographical location of our work locations. Among other things his > work seeks to show is that coworking is actually a logical result of > technological progress and the product of the reduction of the > importance of geography on interaction. We're all pretty excited to > see what he comes up with; Ned and I have clued him into all of the > coworking resources available. He is additionally copied on this > post. > > The grant has been posted to the files section for anyone to use/look > at/whatever. We cribbed quite a bit from the existing coworking > literature, especially the NYTimes article and Julie Gomoll's quote > "when we work together we work smarter". > > Although the RDA handed out $200,000 this spring, we didn't get the > grant. Why? We had too much support already with respect to the > coworking group, a frontpage article in a major paper, a podcast > interview with an arts organization and Caroline Collective on the > tips of tongues all throughout the architecture school. They knew that > Caroline was going to open regardless of contributing to it. No > worries. We know that the coworking people here are the awesomest > people we know anyway. > > Hopefully this grant app can be used by other people to get startup > funds for your location or as a think piece for a nice discussion. > Looking forward to everyone's thoughts on globalization and coworking. > > Matthew and Ned > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to coworking@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
