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In his TEDx talk in November 2009 Michel Bauwens made some very interesting observations about peer to peer production. He points to the fact that when people create something in common, they create their own infrastructure.  On the other hand when people link to share their expression they tend to use a corporate infrastructure like Facebook or Flickr. I see coworking at the moment as a combination of these two.  

Today Anni Roolf and Willi Schroll published the Jellyweek Manual for the Jellyweek 2012, that takes place from the 16th to the 22nd of January.  In the manual you find the listing of all the jellies. To get an idea of where the jellies are, it is very nice to refer to the Jelly Map. Also available is the project list that is just starting to build up. To enter a new jelly use the “Jelly Questionnaire“. To enter a new project use the “Project Questionnaire“. Well done Anni Roolf and Willi Schroll!!! More information about Jellyweek on the Jellyweek Homepage as well as in the article “Worldwide Jellyweek Offers Free Intro To Coworking” by Beth Buczynski on Shareable.

Thanks to Mindaugas Danys we can present you the “Entrepreneurs Church” described in the article of arcticstartup. We believe this new coworking space which starts “extended” operation on the 10th of January with “Startup Tuesdays” fits very well into our series of creative environments with its motto: “have fun and play with ideas”. Three elements are particularly conducive to creative work. 1. Large Open Space: To widen the mind for new solutions you need space to develop several ideas at the same time. This happens not only on a physical, but also on a mental level. Literally we have to give space to our new ideas. 2. Multi-Level: For development the change of perspective is extremely important. How does our idea look from a different perspective (looking down from the first floor and vice versa)? Which dimension changes or is affected by our new idea? 3. Historic background: A building like this former church offers an unusual and provocative environment. Similar to the process of change of perspective, the provocation by new sets of meaning and association/dissociation brings about new insights.  

Makespace, Coworking Space in Singapore, opening in January 2012 has joined our campaign. The latest pictures are very promising. Boon Teck Tan writes:”We had to do up our coworking space, quite a bit as it was a pretty old space. We had been able to reuse some of the 20 year old light fixtures and supplement them with newer ones. Brings about a certain charm, to repaint and reuse them.” Of what we can see, this looks great!!!  If  you like to share examples of  ”Waste becomes Resource” elements in your coworking space please join our group on Facebook or send an article to redaktion@coworking-news.de .

When you start to focus in a certain direction, it is amazing what you can find. Put together the idea of clean cooking and “Waste becomes Resource” Thinking you find a product like the “BioLite” stove: “BioLite has created a biomass cookstove that, by converting waste heat into electricity, reduces smoke emissions by 95% for improved health while providing mobile phone and LED light charging capability to drive widespread adoption.” We are not the only ones that like this project. Very successful participant in “America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs 2011” (Top 25)and now (Top 11) in “McKinsey on Society, Social Innovators“. Join our Campaign on Facebook to support “Waste becomes Resource” Thinking and Action.

BioLite from BioLite on Vimeo.