La presentazione di Sara Bigazzi (Hangar Piemonte) in occasione del bootcamp cambiaMENTI - "Immaginare l'imprevedibile: la creatività incrocia la tecnologia" che si è tenuto a Nuoro il 19 e 20 maggio 2018.

1. From coworking space
to decentralized creative hub for work
The 8-year-story
of Toolbox Coworking in Turin
Sara Bigazzi

2. Eggs & Toolbox
credits fmt.sight14

3. We first started in 2010
as a 44-workstation coworking space.
1,000 square meters
(a pretty big one to start from)

4. Photo Credits: Stefano Borghi

5. Then we grew.
up to 9,000 square meters
450-people community
of freelancers, startups, small business
150 different businesses

6. Photo Credits: Stefano Borghi

7. In these years
We became the focal point in Turin
for the future of work and for
• Freelance culture
• Entrepreneurship culture
• Cross innovation
• Maker culture
• Graphic Design culture
• IoT & AI innovation
• Social Innovation
• Culture innovation

8. Local authorities
started looking at us
as the main partner
to produce innovation-driven content
and to get in touch with communities
they are not able to reach.

9. This is how we did it.

10. First,
with a calendar of events
about entrepreneurship, start-up skills, and new
technologies
and partnerships
with stakeholders such as universities,
incubators, work communities, local authorities
and non-profit organizations.

11. Photo Credits: Stefano Borghi

13. Then,
we understood the importance of cohabitation.
Toolbox Coworking turned into a multicentered structure.
We started hosting communities in our spaces
each with their own knowledge, skills, and backgrounds
but willing to share and mix with the others.

14. 1 | Fablab Torino
Digital fabrication laboratory, makerspace and
development hub for Arduino board.
Photo Credits: Stefano Borghi

15. 2 | Casa Jasmina
The Open Source way to the connected home:
• A real-world testbed for hacks, experiments and
innovative IoT and digital fabrication projects.
• A curated space for public exhibition of excellent
artifacts and best practices.
• A guest-house available on Airbnb.

16. 3 | Print Club Torino
A print and graphic lab to mix new and traditional
technics and experiment with digital and hand-made
skills and know-how.
Photo Credits: Stefano Borghi

17. 4 | Steam Lab
A research cluster focused on digital fabrication,
robotic automation and applied materials research
in the field of architecture, interaction design and art.

18. 5 | Turn into coders
An intensive 8-week-program to become web
developer

19. 6 | Open Press Lab
The freelance journalist community

20. Simply put, we look like a nice cloud of fried eggs.
By adding communities to the net of people
we turned into a creative hub for work,
a larger coworking ecosystem connecting people and communities.
———
Ours was a bottom-up strategy.
We created the conditions for the ecosystem to grow autonomously.
———
Living together in the same shared space
makes cross-fertilization easier between coworkers and subcultures.

21. over 300
events a year
workshops, talks & panels
one-to-one tips, meetups
special events
Fablab
Torino
Steam Lab
Print Club
Torino
Casa
Jasmina
Open Press
Lab
Turn into
coders

22. The complexity of today’s world requires a
multidisciplinary approach and this means:
• Overcoming the trade-off between arts and science
• Putting software and hardware under the same roof
• Making sure the ingredients can mix well
Our takeaways are…

23. Hope you like eggs!
toolboxcoworking.com