Coworking and new urban chance: Exploring the relationship between collaborative working spaces and their urban context

联合办公和新的城市机遇：探索协作工作空间与其城市环境之间的关系

• 批准号: 2244864
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2244864
• 关键词: Coworking; new; urban; chance; Exploring

The currently diffused state of job insecurity as a consequence of the 2008 recession, marks a shift in the way of working and its patterns, producing the growth of open workspaces. The urban phenomenon of collaborative working spaces in the city can be seen as a reaction to the collapse of the employment paradigm re-defining the unpredictable access to stable work as ephemeral and flexible. A burgeoning body of work has examined the emergence and operation of these spaces, but limited research has beendone on the relationships with the wider urban space.This research aims to contribute to the theoretical knowledge of collaborative working spaces and their relationship with the urban space. In particular, the research aims to explore the urban effects of coworking-spaces, including: impact on the surrounding public space; wider urban revitalization (from an economic and a spatial point of view); community building and relationship between coworking members and the local community; the cognitive aspects generated at the local level, where proximity dynamics can have spillover effects.A comparative research using mixed-methods approach, combined with creating an interactive documentary (i-Doc), will be conducted in the London Borough of Hackney and the Creative Cluster in the northern area of Milan.This study is relevant to ESRC objectives, as it aims to analyse the topic through an interdisciplinary perspective, combining urban studies, spatial cognition and human geography with an ethnographic approach and experimenting with i-Docs, an innovative data collection method in the urban studies field.

由于2008年的经济衰退，目前普遍存在的工作不安全状况标志着工作方式及其模式的转变，导致了开放式就业的增长。城市中协作工作空间的城市现象可以被视为对就业范式崩溃的一种反应，这种范式将不可预测的稳定工作重新定义为短暂和灵活的。近年来，对协作工作空间的出现和运作进行了研究，但对协作工作空间与城市空间关系的研究却十分有限。本研究旨在对协作工作空间及其与城市空间关系的理论知识做出贡献。特别是，该研究旨在探索共享空间的城市效应，包括：对周围公共空间的影响;更广泛的城市复兴（从经济和空间的角度）;社区建设和合作成员与当地社区之间的关系;在地方层面产生的认知方面，邻近动态可以产生溢出效应。使用混合方法的比较研究，将在伦敦哈克尼自治市和米兰北方地区的创意集群进行这项研究，并制作一部互动纪录片（i-Doc）。这项研究与ESRC的目标有关，因为它旨在通过跨学科的视角分析这一主题，将城市研究、空间认知和人文地理与人种学方法相结合，并试验i-Doc，这是城市研究领域的一种创新数据收集方法。