2023-05-06 22:00:00
An initiative also wants to set up common spaces for work and communication in Germany. Remote work and social encounters might arise in the future space community.
One thing is certain: the pandemic has permanently changed the way people live and work. Digitization received an unexpected boost.
“Where do we live? Where do we work?”
These are now the central questions, says the Salzburg architect Ursula Spannberger. Many things have become a question of simultaneity: work, family, children, games, leisure time.
According to her observation, digitization has not only changed how people work, learn and talk to each other. It has also changed the relationship between town and country and the meaning of distance and time structures. That changes society permanently. Because the now “rehearsed” coexistence of office and home office will continue to develop and create new forms of living and working.
Remote work enables rural life with urban work opportunities
Flexible working in particular is very attractive, but that means “remote working”, i.e. working from different places, rather than a home office. “In Austria there are hardly any common places, like in the south,” notes Spannberger. With remote work, the advantages of rural life can be combined with those of urban work opportunities. Spannberger: “This is an opportunity for municipalities to bring back those who have emigrated and to reduce vacancies.” There is a need for flexible workplaces, consumption-free meeting rooms and digitally equipped places of education.
“ZukunftsRaumGemeinschaft” wants to set up community spaces in Austria
Spannberger therefore founded the “ZukunftsRaumGemeinschaft” concept together with communication scientist and digitization expert Ursula Maier-Rabler. Existing best-practice examples are visited, for example with excursions. There are vacancies in this country, such as inns, shops or churches that might be used for public communal spaces. But this requires help and suggestions.
“Beet Community” in Palermo enables coworking and coliving
The expert looked at one in Sicily, where such common rooms already exist. One is in Palermo, in a residential area close to the center. There you can exchange ideas with residents and those who work there. In the “Beet Community” there are opportunities for coworking and coliving.
Coliving there means renting your own room but having access to the shared kitchen and all common areas. But you can also reserve your own workplace in the multifunctional or coworking room. In between, you can cook your own meal or enjoy coffee on the terrace, which is surrounded by the green inner courtyard. Meeting other people gives you new ideas and inspiration for your own work.
The coworking space includes a large workspace equipped with eight computer workstations, graphic tablets, desks, chairs and lockers with lock and key, plus high-speed Wi-Fi network, printing services and a bookable meeting room. There are business workstations, graphics workstations and meeting rooms.
“Moltivolti”: Restaurant mit Coworking-Space
“Moltivolti” is the name of another project. “There’s a restaurant on one side and a co-working space on the other,” says Spannberger. The restaurant is Sicilian ethnic and offers a wide variety of dishes from different countries, also the staff is multi-ethnic.
But Moltivolti is also a coworking space made up of 18 independent workspaces conceived mainly as a common space for third sector associations, individual social workers, volunteers and informal groups who intend to develop projects of a social, cultural or artistic nature.
Spannberger, together with Maier-Rabler, would like to bring such ideas to Austria and Salzburg. “There are coworking spaces, but other elements are also needed, such as a children’s area, library, workshop or video studio. We now want to implement all the activities of large families in the past in this way.” There might be a mixture of professional and private life, but that doesn’t have to be the case automatically. Every church or community should decide that for itself.
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