The Future is Co-

The Future is Co-
- A co-working panel discussion

Time: Sunday 7 August 2011, 14h00-16h30
Venue: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd., Shanghai
Language: English
Cost: 30RMB/person & by invitation only  – with fresh coffee and tea provided
Organizers: New Work City, Xindanwei, Xinchejian

Key Note Speaker: Tony Bacigalupo, “Mayor” of New Work City, New York.
Panel Members: Liu Yan (Xindanwei),  Chen Xu (Xindanwei), aaajiao (Xindanwei), Ricky Ng-Adam (Xinchejian), Min Lin Hsieh (Xinchejian)
Moderated by An Xiao Mina and Siliva Lindtner.

“The pioneers of our time are not taking the world at face value, as a given from outside; rather, they see the world as something you can pry open, something you can tinker with.” (opendesignnow.org)

As one of the pioneering movements of our time, coworking has been empowering people and teams coming from very different backgrounds and disciplines to gather and mingle,  not only for the purpose of sharing space and networks, but also of learning from each other and turning common insights into new realities or generating hybrid projects (co-learning, co-operation, collaboration). In the corporate world, developers are involving their end-users to design products and services for a specific, niche market (co-design or co-creation) and organizations are combining their products or brands (co-branding, co-marketing).  The prefix “co-”, and everything stemming from it, has been emerging as one of the most relevant trends in our time.

In addition to the panel there will be an open discussion amongst the panel and Shanghai’s creative innovators about the possibilities and challenges of co-working, new forms of collaborating and the role of design & art. We are inviting a limited number of audiences worldwide to participate live via an skype by adding anxiaophotos on skype with msg: “join xdw event” , or you are welcome to use hashtag #xdw on twitter or Weibo to follow us. This hashtag will be used for all the future Xindanwei events.

This event costs 30 RMB and is by invitation only to the first 30 audiences who RSVP. If you wish to participate, please email to xindanwei@gmail.com your name, organization, title, phone number, email and list out what kind of input you would like to bring to the event. We will provide unlimited fresh coffee and tea on site for the audiences.

Bio’s
Tony Bacigalupo, the founder and mayor of New Work City, a coworking space in Manhattan, New York. He is also co-author of I’m Outta Here! How coworking is making the office obsolete , and a project manager at Desktop Solutions Software. Twitter: http://twitter.com/tonybgoode Blog: http://tonybacigalupo.com/ Coworking Space: New Work City http://nwcny.com/
An Xiao Mina,  Artist and designer. She looks at the intersection of the digital and analog in the 21st century. She photographs, installs, performs and tweets and has shown her work in publications and galleries internationally. Find her online at @anxiaostudio and anxiaostudio.com. She has spoken at Xindanwei before about “Art meets social media“.
Silvia Lindtner,  phd candidate in the department of  Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation research over the last 4 years has focused on transnational processes of technology design and art, Internet counter culture and participatory media in the context of urban China. She was a speaker of Xindanwei’s chitchat.

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