Inspiration Case: Visionary Co-working space
A vision is the big picture of what you want to achieve in long term. When entrepreneurs are able to work not only with like minded people but also with visionary people from all different backgrounds, this serves as a great motivator for organisations. Our inspiring example The Hub offers such spaces and follows its own big vision at the same time, giving an inspiring working environment to change makers to put ideas that might change the world into place.
Inspiration & Parametres for change
a) experience of a visionary workspace The workplace has a crucial role in the efficiency of working processes. A lot of companies today encourage their employees to create their own working place, thus increasing both their creativity and happiness. Building a physical environment is relatively easy, but the challenge now is to build a social environment as well.
b) combining space with visionary people & their ideas The big, shiny vision is typical for entrepreneurs and creative start-ups. It is what makes them get up at 6 a.m. in the morning and what makes them stay hours after the working day is over; it is what makes them try again and again after every failure. Meeting and working with such people might widen one’s own horizon and create an upward spiral for own ideas and successes
Our inspiring example: The Hub, Vienna, Austria, 2005
The Hub is a social enterprise with the vision to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world, featuring not only co-working spaces but many more facilities. It is a global community working at ‘new frontiers’ to tackle the world’s most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges. The Hub believes in creating places around the world accessing space, resources, connections, knowledge, experience and investment for people who think differently and who feature ideas that might change the world.
How does The Hub work in detail?
The Hub is a co-working and encounter space that features individual work stations, offices, meeting rooms, art and exhibition spaces, bars or cafés and large event spaces for its members. Members work at The Hub, they attend and produce events, run their own bootcamps, access funding and mentorship, source clients and co-conspirators, find social networks, build campaigns, launch companies, prototype and test products. The Hub has been working across five continents, and 26 cities to create places for people who change things. It set out to create places that borrow from the best of a member’s club, an innovation agency, a serviced office and a think-tank to create a very different kind of innovation environment. Places with all the tools and trimmings needed to grow and develop new ventures. The Hub provides such places that they call Hubs to access experience, knowledge, finance and markets; but above all places for experience and encounter, full of diverse people doing amazing things.
What does this mean for the community?
The Hubs are places to work, meet, innovate, learn and relax. They are designed for visionary people who crave the inspiration, resources, knowledge, connections and investment to start and grow new ideas. Moreover a Hub creates the perfect environment for creativity and innovations, it creates spirit which drives people forward.
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KRISTINA BORJESSONClear Village Think Team & Research Associate at Central St Martins College
