Late addition to this thread but one of the interesting things about cohousing is that about 70% of cohousers are introverts - i.e. they feel energized doing things alone.
Most of the folks I know in cohousing love being around other people but want to escape to their home. The equivalent coworking space would need to be structured with private offices facing into the workplace with a shared common area that allowed for interactions and occasional collaborations. Finally, getting coworkers into cohousing would seem a lot easier than getting coworkers into cohousing. On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 6:47:43 PM UTC-7, Melissa Mesku wrote: > > Wendy, > > I have lived in, and started, co-op housing communities, and I have to > agree with Alex in that coworking and cohousing are largely unaware of each > other. They're both based on similar principles (sharing resources, > enabling collaboration, building community) but address pretty different > lifestyle preferences, so I would anticipate that uniting the two would > require effort and imagination. > > Coworking is on the rise but I don't know that cohousing is. When it comes > to living arrangements, I think your average person is still resistant to > the concept of sharing with non-family. That said, this may be changing, > given the state of the economy plus the popularity of the sharing economy > and the normalization of once-novel concepts like coworking. > > Best of luck! > > > On Thursday, January 9, 2014 4:46:57 PM UTC-5, Wendy Willbanks Wiesner > wrote: >> >> Hello--I interface with existing, expanding and forming cohousing >> communities all over the country, working to make them more affordable, >> accessible and attainable. I have come to believe that coworking and >> cohousing go together like almond butter and honey. What immediately >> comes to mind is that most cohousing communities have common houses where >> coworking would make a lot of sense. Has anyone else explored this >> intersection of community-oriented living and community-style working? >> >> -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to coworking+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
