Investing in Third & Fourth Spaces Will Strengthen Your Product Strategy
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Investing in Third & Fourth Spaces Will Strengthen Your Product Strategy
Creating high density of not only people, but ideas and energy = serendipity and aliveness. Lewis Mumford writes that the primary purpose of the city is “to permit—indeed, to encourage—the greatest possible number of meetings, encounters, challenges, between varied persons and groups, providing as it were a stage upon which the drama of social life... See more
Good spaces provide bonding and bridging mechanisms. The field of urban planning first introduced the concept of public spaces that bond or bridge. The former serves to aid similar individuals to meet and reinforce ties. The latter bridges diverse people together to coexist and broaden one another’s perspectives. What seems to be working for us is ... See more
For me, that kind of middle space continues to be the next frontier, the next area where more focus is needed. It’s a way of being thoughtfully experimental while in real conversation around what an experiment would imagine differently.
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
Similarly, Protein's very own SEED CLUB positions itself as “a place where people and ideas grow" and it was in fact through SEED CLUB that I discovered The Commons, thanks to an insightful comment from Mike Evans:
“I definitely prefer this concept of a space that you actively program to fulfil certain connection requirements as more convincing than... See more
“I definitely prefer this concept of a space that you actively program to fulfil certain connection requirements as more convincing than... See more
