Glossary

Co-location

Refers to spaces that are shared among a number of separate organizations.

Coworking Community

Refers to the sharing of workspace independent among individuals or organizations in a community and collaborative approach.

Hot desks

Hot desks are temporary, shared workspaces or desks that are typically used by mobile workers who cannot commit longer term to a workspace.

Incubators

Incubators provide programmatic, strategic, administrative and/or financial support to small projects and organizations.

Pop-up coworking

Refers to the sharing of temporary workspace such as home, cafe or other public spaces among independent individuals or organizations in a community and collaborative approach

Coworker

People work from Xindanwei Coworking Space regularly or randomly.

Xīnchējiān

A hacker community emerged from Xindanwei and established by a few Xindanwei Coworkers. Xīnchējiān offers a hacker space to support, create and promote physical computing, open source hardware and Internet of Things.

Hacker Space

Community-operated physical places all around the world, where people can meet and have fun on their （mostly tech)projects.

Un-conference

Different from conventional conference, this is a participant-driven meeting where content is planned and provided by the participants. For example, barcamp, meetup.

New Mentor

New Mentor is a peer to peer consultancy service for Xindanwei members. Through monthly in-depth conversation, our community managers get a hands-on understanding of the issues and bottle necks our members are facing in their projects, and help them connect with the knowledge, talents and resources in the Xindanwei platform, as well as offer prompt professional help and advices.

Chitchat

Chitchat is a weekly informal open event held/hosted by and for the community members of Xindanwei and anyone interested in getting connected with this community. Anyone could submit their work or project to book an afternoon at Xindanwei and share with the public. The event is absolutely free-style, so the format is not the central issue here.

Xinshanzhai

The “Xin” in Xinshanzhai is about a new opportunity opened up by combining the traditional shanzhai’s efficient micro manufacture capacity with new open innovation framework largely based on open hardware movement. It’s vastly open with standardized hardware and open source OS.The key point of Xinshanzhai is to promote this efficient micro manufacture ecosystem and promote the open source hardware and sharing culture.

Time Service

Service that allows members to use Xindanwei space on time basis. The annual and monthly membership offer an exclusive desk free usage (limited) of the meeting room, and a key that allows you to access the space anytime.

Property Service

The creative space service of Xindanwei, providing a various selection of spaces transformed from old factories and villas for creative events, flexible working space and retail stores.

Xindanwei People

Every month Xindanwei invite a Xindanwei coworker to share about their dreams, their work as well as their personal experience at Xindanwei. Xindanwei promotes these sharing through online platforms.

Xindanwei Buzz

A Xindanwei newsletter sent to the subscribers on bi-weekly basis, to communicate and promote community’s news and activities.

Sharism

It is a ideology which promotes the sharing culture and economy as a way of thinking.

Creative Commons Licenses(CC)

Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.

Peer to Peer learning

Learn from and with each other.

Open Innovation

Open innovation model refers to the notion that innovation can be pursued and achieved through practices that engage users and thinkers outside of organizational or institutional boundaries.

Xindanwei Flagship Workspace

The first coworking space in China. Located on Yongjia rd 50, the heart of Shanghai’s former French Concession area, it is an attractively decorated 6-storey lane house from the 1930’s, with antique art deco furniture, rustic wooden floors, ceiling beams & a roof terrace. It provides professional services such as open-plan offices, cafe, private conference rooms, a high-speed and secure WIFI connection, VPNs, along with printing, copying and scanning facilities.

Toronto’s Centre for Social Innovation

This center is a social enterprise with a mission to catalyze social innovation in Toronto and around the world. They believe that society is facing unprecedented economic, environmental, social and cultural challenges. We also believe that new innovations are the key to turning these challenges into opportunities to improve our communities and our planet.

Barcamp

BarCamp is a fun, user-generated “un-conference.” The BarCamp model started in the Silicon Valley as a response to formal, exclusive, and boring tech conferences and has since spread to 350+ cities worldwide.

Architect for Humanity

A volunteer non-profit organization set up to promote architecture and design to seek solutions to global social and humanitarian crisis.

Netimpact

Net Impact is a new generation of leaders who use their careers to tackle the world’s toughest problems. They put our business skills to work for good throughout every sector. By doing so, they show the world that it’s possible to make a net impact that benefits not just the bottom line, but people and planet too.

Tech Yizu

Tech Yizu (Chinese for “Tech Ants”) is a new organization that aims to organize Shanghai’s lively startup and tech community. Tech Yizu serves as an umbrella organization to plan events, find sponsors, and promote to the public.

Haworth

Haworth is a leading global designer and manufacturing of office solutions including system furniture, ergonomic seating and is a pioneer in adaptable workspaces. With more than 20 years experience in Asia Pacific, Haworth stands alone in its commitment to the region. Haworth operates in over 120 countries, with over 27 manufacturing facilities and more than 7,500 members. The regional headquarters in Shanghai manages 2 manufacturing facilities, 26 sales offices and 19 dealers to support our network of clients throughout Asia Pacific, Middle East & Latin America.

Haworth is dedicated to sustainability leadership by engaging people and processes and employing resources to provide sustainable and adaptable workplace solutions. For the past two decades, Haworth has built its manufacturing facilities worldwide for environmental leadership in energy efficiency, solid waste management, air quality management, water and wastewater quality and hazardous waste management.

Xin Ka Fei

The coffee area located inside Xindanwei.

Community Manager

Xindanwei on-site staff who coordinates and supports coordination and communication work with/within the community.