This map shows the existing Commons or Co Working Offices Spaces in North America and Europe. I see a network - do you? (Thanks Harold for the link and to James Bentley for doing the mapping work)
When we started one of the first of these on PEI - The Queen Street Commons in 2005 - we wondered if this would catch on and whether down the road there might be some kind of network that could evolve.
I imagined that we might have an Association with a pass that would enable members of one such Commons to use the others. So I could be on a trip to London or Seattle or New York or Hawaii and have a trusted base.
Have a home office where ever I went. In effect have a global organization where I could not only have a physical base but be able to draw on a group of people who shared my values and could act as my safe guides to the new place.
Well it looks like the time has come to ask a few people if we can do this.
I see some kind of umbrella association that members of a Commons can join that enables the member to use member commons. My bet is that I would pay an annual fee to the association and that I would pay a day pass fee to the Commons that I visited.
I imagine all sorts of unintended benefits - what kind of group would all these members be? How might they help each other more broadly? Would they as a group start to have power? At the moment we are just a bunch of Free Agents. But as a global group???? Would this affect politics and local resiliency? What kind of platform would this represent?
