Presented by Deskmag - The Coworking Magazine
C-base in Berlin, was one the first hackerspaces in the world. In 2002, they made WiFi networks available and promoted free public access to the internet.
Brian DeKoven launched the word "coworking" as a way to identify a method that would facilitate collaborative work and business meetings, coordinated by computers.
116 West Houston (later: Nutopia) and 42 West 24 opened long before the term “coworking” entered popular use - independently from one another.
Vienna's mother of coworking spaces opened. The Schraubenfabrik was firstly called "UnternehmerInnenzentrum" or "community center for entrepreneurs" .
LYNfabriikken combines a coffeeshop with a workspace. Denmark's 1st coworking space is located in Aarhus and opened on December 1st, 2002
Vienna's Schraubenfabrik was extended by Hutfabrik (en: Hat Factory). The two spaces are organized under the umbrella of the Konnex Communities.
The first Hub started at London's Angel Station. From there, more than 40 other coworking spaces have been developed by a franchise network worldwide.
The first official so-called "coworking space" opened its doors in San Francisco on August 9 at Spiral Muse.
In Berlin, St. Oberholz opened in 2005 as the first café that allowed people to work on their laptops as guests, not as wifi parasites.
Founded by the future co-founders of The Hat Factory in San Francisco.
Jelly is started by two guys in NYC. Amit Gupta & Luke Crawford promoted mobile workers getting together in a casual work environment occasionally.
The Hat Factory is the first space that opened full-time and called itself a “coworking space”.
For the first time, the term "coworking" was seen as a trend on Google's database. Until 2013, the search queries increased by factor 20 when searching the word "coworking" prevailed over other search terms.
The Business Class Net, Berlin's 1st coworking space, celebrates its opening on Labor Day. It's the mother space of the 1st fairchise network of coworking spaces around the globe.
The 1st Swiss coworking space opened in Zurich in a former soap factory. According to its owner, he copied the concept of Citizen Space in San Francisco, including the name. Even the iconic lamp can be found in the Swiss space today.
Indyhall is one of the first coworking spaces which was created by bootstrappping. Around 30 people were willing to buy memberships in advance.
The first conference discussing new forms of work & "digital bohemians" took place in Berlin. The meeting was called "9to5" & ran three days between 9pm to 5 am (!).
The founder Cristina learned about the new shared workspaces through a language course in San Francisco. In 2007, she took the idea back to Barcelona and opened the city’s first coworking space in the Gracia district.
Coworking is listed as term on Wikipedia.
At Cubes & Crayons, the coworking space exists alongside facilities for kids ranging from just a few months old to pre-schoolers.
"Contemplating his career path a couple of years ago, a young computer programmer named Brad Neuberg faced a modern predicament."...
The NYTimes article was also read in Europe. The people behind the German website "Hallenprojekt" looked for a place where "people can work independently, but together", and shared this article on their blog.
During South By Southwest (SXSW) in 2008 and 2009, the first unofficial coworking meet-ups took place. Based on these meetings, and the first Coworking Conference in Brussels in 2010, Loose Cubes decided in 2011 to organize the first official Coworking Unconference during SXSW. One year later, the GCUC (Global Coworking Unconference Conference) emerged
The Coworking Visa is a voluntary goodwill agreement between many coworking spaces to allow members of other spaces to visit for free: http://www.coworkingvisamap.com/
"I'm Outta Here! How coworking is making the office obsolete" is a book about the people & places that kicked off the workplace revolution in the US.
In Germany the first space, offcially called a coworking space, Betahaus, opened. No other coworking space had found a place in Germany's biggest news magazine - even before its opening. Because of rising attention, the term "coworking” entered into the German mainstream media.
Coworking News is a German blog which publishes short articles about coworking. Today, its mission is to promote "Free Coworking".
CowoProject introduces the 1st barcamp on coworking in Italy.
The 1st online magazine about Coworking is released on July 10th.
The coworking movement celebrates the first #CoworkingDay - in memory of the first "coworking" day five years earlier.
New Work City collected US$ 17,000 on Kickstarter to re-open a full-time coworking space at a new location.
About 600 coworking spaces have been counted in October 2010. Every second coworking space is located in Northamerica (US & Canada)
The 1st city collective of coworking spaces is formed in Seattle.
The first Coworking Europe conference took place in Brussels. More than 150 people from 22 countries attended the conference
The Global Coworking Survey was carried out by Deskmag in cooperation with the TU Berlin. It attracted 661 participants from 24 countries.
The year starts with the European Jelly Week, which becomes Worldwide Jelly Week, only one year later.
NextSpace has raised an angel round of US$425K in at risk funds. At this time they run two locations in the Bay Area.
The first U.S. Coworking Unconference was organized by Loosecubes and attracted around 200 people during the half-day barcamp.
The 1st operator of a coworking space is elected to a parliament. He becomes member of Berlin's House of Representatives and works for the Pirates.
The 2nd Global Coworking Survey was the work of a large community of partner organizations. Over 1500 people from 52 countries took part in the survey.
More than 220 jellies have been organized in 34 countries.
How coworking is changing how and where we work - A video, explaining coworking in two minutes. The video was released at GCUC.
The Coworking Space Ship tour started in Austin as part of the second day of the GCUC. The mini-conference then traveled to Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.
In October, more than 2000 coworking spaces are found worldwide.
For the third year running, Deskmag has conducted the biggest study of coworking worldwide through its Global Coworking Survey. A total of 2007 people took part in the survey
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