Abstract
Since Clay Spinuzzi’s “Working Alone Together” (2012), which is considered the first academic publication on coworking, multidisciplinary scholarship on coworking as a socio-spatial practice has developed a rich body of empirical research over the last decade. Researchers from many academic disciplines have provided the coworking literature with multiple accounts, exploring the diverse functions and impacts of coworking spaces. Yet a growing concern in academic debates is the lack of theorization and coworking research is often exposed to a critique of being overly descriptive, and so it merely fails to fully grasp and unpack the processes that make coworking a transformative medium of social and economic relations. Although the focus and the nucleus of coworking spaces is and should continue to be labor, the dynamics of coworking have multiple manifestations that intersect with various processes of spatial development.
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Merkel, J., Avdikos, V., Pettas, D. (2023). Coworking Spaces: Alternative Topologies and Transformative Potentials. In: Merkel, J., Pettas, D., Avdikos, V. (eds) Coworking Spaces. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42268-3_1
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