Liberating Spaces

Thanks to my very good friends Christine (@mccarthymadsen) and Matthew, I could meet today Alice Fung (@00alice) and Indy Johar (@indy_johar) from 00:/. Very interesting people. I wanted to meet them because in Factoria Ciudadana we have already started to work on the project of opening a The Hub in Barcelona. Already other social entrepreneurs in Barcelona have already been working on the same project for a few months, and we are starting to collaborate to make it real. Alice and Indy have been designing The Hub conceptual space from the beginning. I’ve already expressed my view about The Hub in a recent post. But the interest of talking with them goes beyond it. Their ideas are in tune with how I see the world and its future.

Last Sunday, some people organized in The Hub-King’s Cross a TEDX Volcano (second video below, skip the first 15 minutes, it is just people talking), an original way of bringing people trapped in London to share ideas about a diversity of issues, TED-style. (more…)

Last January, I was invited by @dominiccampbell to The Hub-King’s Cross (@hubkingscross) to discuss some collaboration between us. I had heard about it before from someone else, but I had never been there. I liked very much what I saw and felt. I became a member straight away.

In their own words…

Another world is not just possible, it’s happening. All around us individuals ranging from corporate executives to community leaders, from policy-makers to freelance professionals are pursuing ideas and initiatives for a better world. Hub Kings Cross is a unique ecosystem designed to enable these people to thrive. It’s a place to access innovation, knowledge, market opportunities, inspiration and experience.

Working and spending time in this space is much more than sharing a working space. It is feeling the buzz of creativity and emotions based on the principle of sharing and networking. You work, meet and connect with people that have ideas, are creative and want to push the world in different directions to make it different. Without imposing one single idea. Just by doing what they thing is best. As Ghandi said, “be the change that you want to see in the world”. In The Hub you not only work for what you believe is change – whatever it is –, but you are it while you are working. In contrast to bureaucratic structures, in which you have to leave yourself at the door. Here yourself integrates with the space, each of us are what we are outside, work, share and collaborate at the same time.

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