Real Connection Space
Put the real back in Real Estate.
need to be reinvented to create positive collisions that promote community and collaboration?
What does the ultimate collaborative creativity, health and educational space look like?
Opportunities
- Expert Guidance: Consulting with CTOs and data architects can facilitate a smoother transition to new technologies.
- Cybersecurity Training: Educating employees about cyber-secure behaviors can mitigate risks.
- Humanize Digital Interactions: A balanced approach to technology can help maintain human connections in digital transactions.
- Knowledge Sharing: Promoting a collaborative approach can help in achieving buy-in from employees and partners.
- Structured Learning: Offering training programs can help employees adapt to new technologies more rapidly.
- Smart Real Estate (SRE) Design: Building network signal boosters into SRE design can eliminate low bandwidth zones.
- Data-Driven Decision-Making: Leveraging data analytics can make investments more informed and potentially more profitable.
- Social Media: The correct use of platforms like LinkedIn can aid in targeting high net worth individuals effectively.
- Nominating Tech Advocates: Designating internal champions for new tools can facilitate better and quicker adoption across the team.
- Hybrid Tech Capabilities: Investing in technologies that support both remote and in-person work can create more flexible work environments.
- Consistent Usage: Building habitual use of new platforms can result in a long-term positive impact on the business.
- Efficiency Gains: New technologies often offer the ability to do more in less time, increasing overall efficiency.
Reinvent Third Space
In community building, the third place is the social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace. But couldn't also include these two. The third place is a generic designation for a great variety of public places that host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home and work.
Examples of third places include:
- Main Street
- English Pub
- French Café
- Classic Coffeehouses
- American tavern
- Sports Clubs
- Churches
- Libraries
- Parks
Is Absalon an early prototype for a new type of hybrid space that enables growth of community value:
- Creative Education
- Common Eating
- Exercise
Accidental collsions are essential to better collaboration
How could DAOs be used to create third places?
Requirements
Basic requirements for public places:
- The full spectrum of local humanity is represented
- Human scale has been preserved
- There is a balance in the three realms of daily life
- Where third places remain vital, it is far more because they are prolific than prominent
Characteristics
Third Places are a leveling (status, personal problems & moodiness) home away from home.
- Neutral ground
- The Regulars
- Low Profile
- Playful Mood
Interaction
Real world conversation is the main activity
- Art of conversation
- Emphasize style over vocabulary
- Anything that interrupts flow of conversation is deadly
Benefits
Personal Benefits of Third Places
- Novelty
- Perspective
- Spiritual tonic
- Friends by the set
The Greater Good
- Grassroots politics
- Habit of association
- Agency of Control & a force for good
- Fun with the lid kept on
- Outposts of the public domain
How can you organically create collisions that drive innovation?
Space-as-a-Service
Properties are no longer just walls and a roof, owners need to be able to improve experin valued services and features to the tenants, the resident or the customer.
Questions:
- What is the business case? What services?
- How to brand serviced housing communities or office concepts?
- How did you go about the task of creating the housing/office, the community and now also the digital layer to support it and associated services?
- What challenges to developing services that are not off-the-shelf?
- What challenges with running operations for service
Inspiration
Schema
Links
Third Place Research