Coworking Canvas

The catalogue associated this document with 2019. The only supplied page presented “The Coworking Canvas,” a visual framework carrying the Coworking Accelerator name and website. The diagram arranged six components around a central circle. Network appeared at the top, followed clockwise by peer support, learning, hosting, space and co-location. The centre identified belonging, nurturing and place-making as related community concepts. A horizontal line divided the canvas, with “value creators” labelled on the left and “value enablers” on the right. The page used the framework to map spatial, social and operational aspects of coworking, but it did not provide explanatory text, examples, evidence or quantitative results. It also showed a six-point geometric form linking the outer components to the central circle. No presenter name, event name or date appeared on the visible page. The available material therefore documented the structure and terminology of the canvas rather than how it was intended to be applied or validated. Because only a single page was available, the document’s wider argument, presentation context and any supporting research could not be established from the source itself.

Key findings

• The canvas arranged network, peer support, learning, hosting, space and co-location around a central circle.
• The central circle identified belonging, nurturing and place-making.
• The page contrasted “value creators” with “value enablers” across a horizontal division.

Presented at Coworking Europe 2019