New workplaces between city and countryside

The reorganization of the working world is also leading to the emergence of new workplaces. Co-working spaces are a new type of workplace. Co-working spaces are a spatial response to the increasing flexibilization and the associated uncertainty and self-determination in knowledge-intensive professions, especially in the field of cultural and creative work. Large parts of knowledge and creative workers are self-employed or freelance and involved in insecure and temporally highly flexible work arrangements. For these actors in particular, temporary workplaces beyond their own homes are important.

The urban and economic development field of work is also concerned with cultural and creative work. Actors in the cultural and creative industries For cities and urban neighborhoods, co-working spaces as places for knowledge and creative work offer different opportunities, for urban development and also for other actors.

The project focuses on the relationship between co-working spaces and urban development in cities and in rural areas.