Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8711
Authors: Brinks, Verena
Title: Fluid objects? An attempt to conceptualise the global rise of “coworking spaces”
Online publication date: 3-Feb-2023
Year of first publication: 2022
Language: english
Abstract: The paper explores the emergence and proliferation of “coworking spaces”. Driven by empirical observations during the last 10 years, the paper examines the analytical potential of the concept “fluid objects” to explain the global rise of coworking spaces. With remarkable speed, coworking spaces emerged worldwide during the last 15 years and receive enormous attention from researchers, policy-makers, and the public. However, researchers still struggle to define coworking spaces and a closer look into the field reveals the diversity and heterogeneity of these facilities. How is it that such different places are nevertheless recognised as belonging to the same phenomenon? Within Science and Technology Studies (STS), the notion of “fluid objects” has been developed to describe entities obtaining their strength through adaptability and flexibility. The paper argues that fluidity is a useful conceptual foundation to better understand the emergence and proliferation of coworking spaces. The primary conceptual ideas presented in this paper are enhanced with empirical data, collected from different coworking spaces in Berlin, Amsterdam, and North Rhine-Westphalia.
DDC: 910 Geografie
910 Geography and travel
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 09 Chemie, Pharmazie u. Geowissensch.
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-8711
Version: Published version
Publication type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Document type specification: Scientific article
License: CC BY
Information on rights of use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal: Area
54
3
Pages or article number: 435
442
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher place: Oxford
Issue date: 2022
ISSN: 1475-4762
Publisher DOI: 10.1111/area.12778
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