Innovation and creativity labs in Berlin

Schmidt, Suntje; Brinks, Verena; Brinkhoff, Sascha

doi:10.1515/zfw.2014.0016

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“…In recent years, there has been a proliferation of ‘open creative labs’ and collaborative workplaces such as co-working offices, living labs, accelerators, makerspaces and incubators (Cardullo et al., 2018; Richardson, 2015) that follow an apparent paradigm shift towards ‘open innovation, boundaryless work and collaboration’ (Schmidt et al., 2014: 236). Such workplaces put a premium on openness whereby random encounters generate ‘transformative experiences’ (Hutter and Farías, 2017: 7).…”

Section: A New Open Paradigm: Spaces Of Work Enterprise and Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The limits to openness: Co-working, design and social innovation in the neoliberal city

Lorne

2019

Environ Plan A

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This article examines the emergence of ‘open’ urban economic projects that promote the transformative potential of social innovation and civic enterprise. By putting the burgeoning literature on an open paradigm of work and innovation within cultural economic geography into dialogue with scholarship on open cities, I problematize the inherently progressive framing of openness. The paper makes two contributions. First, it emphasises how open narratives encourage entrepreneurial communities that manifest as individualization-masked-as-collectivism. It argues efforts to design new spaces of social innovation through the blurring of boundaries simultaneously reproduce social and material exclusions. Second, it demonstrates how the championing of open ecosystems of social innovation intersects with austerity localism. New modes of state withdrawal are facilitated through co-creation, crowdfunding and social enterprise. Illustrated through research into a co-working space in London set up in response to the 2007–2008 economic crisis, I reveal the geographies of exclusion, enclosure and exploitation embedded in the pursuit of openness. Against the claims of enabling conditions for progressive civic futures, I establish the limits to openness whereby such ideas are easily assimilated into the processes of neoliberalisation that they seek to reject.

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Section: A New Open Paradigm: Spaces Of Work Enterprise and Innovationmentioning

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The limits to openness: Co-working, design and social innovation in the neoliberal city

Lorne

2019

Environ Plan A

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“…Brinks (2019) has recently introduced the term 'open creative lab' that could be categorised under the makerspace model. Open creative labs provide work stations, infrastructure and technologies to various users and are based on the flexible membership model with low entry barriers (Schmidt et al ., 2016;Brinks, 2019).…”

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“…Various social and organisational factors impact the growth of collaborative places. These include (Schmidt et al ., 2016;Schmidt and Brinks, 2017) increasing project orientation of work which influences the forms of organising work and labour, the growing number of firms following the 'open innovation' model, more community-led urban regeneration, and unusual players involved in entrepreneurial agency.…”

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Studies of Proximity in Coworking Spaces: the Basic Conceptual Challenges

Micek

2020

ESR&P

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The article aims to identify main research challenges in studying coworking spaces (CSs) within the field of economic geography. It combines the perspective of proximity economics with the growing body of papers about spatial aspects of the operations of CSs and their role in stimulating collaboration. Based on a review of literature, the author identified the characteristic features of CSs and the corresponding proximity dimensions. He further assessed the significance of various dimensions of proximity in CSs. The article reveals how various proximities differ between CSs. It also distinguished the research strands referring to the spatialities of CSs. Next, it discusses the conceptualisation and operationalisation of proximity. Then, it applied it in the micro-scalar context of coworking spaces. The paper sheds a new light on ‘real CSs’ as physical spaces of strong institutional, cognitive and social proximities. It has been argued that even if organisational proximity in CSs is taken for granted, there is a heterogeneity amongst their users.

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“…Within the broad spectrum of Open Creative Labs, three distinguishing types may be differentiated: labs primarily fostering experimentation und tinkering in a social setting (experimentation labs) as well as commercial labs supporting (paid and unpaid) work-related activities (working labs), and labs promoting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ventures (entrepreneurial labs; Ibert, Brinks, & Schmidt, 2018;Schmidt , & Brinks, 2017;Schmidt, Brinks, & Brinkhoff, 2014). For the remainder of this paper, I shall continue to use "Open Creative Labs" as an umbrella term for the empirical diversity in the field.…”

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In the making: Open Creative Labs as an emerging topic in economic geography?

Schmidt

2019

Geography Compass

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In the past 15 years, we have witnessed an upsurge of collaborative spaces providing an arena for individual and collective creativity, (co)creating craft‐based products, urban manufacturing, and experimentation with business or creative ideas using innovative technologies such as 3D printing or CNC milling machines. The discourses on spaces such as coworking, hacker‐ or makerspaces, accelerators, Fab Labs, and open workshops promise new communities, more innovation, and a transformation of work. This has called for interdisciplinary scholarly attention, primarily from organization and management studies, sociology, and entrepreneurship studies. However, little attention has so far been paid to this development from the perspective of geography. This paper employs Open Creative Labs as an umbrella term for the diversity of spaces and aims at, first, providing an overview of recent interdisciplinary perspectives on the functions of labs in coordinating creativity and entrepreneurship, as well as the motivations of users to utilize these spaces for their projects, and, second, offers an approach to a multiscalar spatial conceptualizations of labs. The paper concludes by exploring policy implications that may benefit from an economic‐geography perspective.

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Innovation and creativity labs in Berlin

Cited by 61 publications

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The limits to openness: Co-working, design and social innovation in the neoliberal city

The limits to openness: Co-working, design and social innovation in the neoliberal city

Studies of Proximity in Coworking Spaces: the Basic Conceptual Challenges

In the making: Open Creative Labs as an emerging topic in economic geography?

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