The spread of co-working practices transformed ‘co-working’ into a buzzword with increasingly high expectations concerning the improvement of the socio-economic conditions of workers in the knowledge economy. The question we should discuss is how to interpret the co-working phenomenon and co-living in the landscape of the knowledge labour market, as it is connoted with the expectation of being the ‘new model of work’ in the context of the ‘collaborative and ‘sharing’ economy as well as a new platform for the uprising young entrepreneurs.
We should consider co-working phenomena as inevitably positive, as the ‘vibe’ seems to support, and we should be alerted to an emerging ‘co-working bubble’, as recently suggested (Moriset, 2014), given that co-working is being increasingly used for branding, marketing and business purposes. This project thesis will extend the capabilities and understanding the motif and models of design that will provide the necessity for a better growing new network of collaboration.
