Hacker Space

aka CoWorking?

model for CoOperative space for Hackers

• Community Center?

http://hackerspaces.org

BucketWorks? http://www.bucketworks.org/

May go into living together: Model Intentional Community

The new Coffee House? Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value. In 17th-century England, the social equality and merit-ocracy of coffee houses was so deeply troubling to those in power that King Charles II tried to suppress them for being "places where the disaffected met, and spread scandalous reports concerning the conduct of His Majesty and his Ministers". It was in the coffee houses that information previously held in secret and by elites was shared with an emerging middle class. They were held responsible for many of the social reforms of the 18th century, when English public life was transformed. Hackerspaces could prove to be as important for reform in the Digital Age. (Network Economy)

Possible location for R And D?

Pattern Language http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Design_Patterns