Chiang Mai Commons
Project for a coworking hub and conferencing facility in Chiangmai, Thailand, by Michel Bauwens
Description
" In the summer of 2010, I will be opening a Chiangmai Commons coworking hub and conferencing facility, with very preferential treatment of actors in the field of open and free knowledge/software/design, as well as participatory and commons oriented activities. Half of the space will be for coworking (time rent instead of place rent), the other for videoconferencing and other common events. I will start with some start of cultural festival in the summer, dedicated to 'social innovation'. I'm not very well linked with Thai networks, but have a pretty good global network through my work at the P2P Foundation. So, I would really like cooperation from the hacker community in chiangmai and thailand, and see how different projects can reinforce each other.The bottom row of the pictures below shows the building, which we will finish starting in april. It is located soi 1 on chotana road, very easy access from the superhighway and 15 minutes from the city center, it's right at Kuang Sin intersection."
Details
The building will combine:
- a coworking hub
- a conferencing facility
- own educational and cultural events, both aimed at local region, and global p2p community
Resources
- Pictures of building, see bottom row at http://www.flickr.com/photos/98562563@N00/sets/72157603456039759/
- Google Map input: Chotana 1, Chang Phuak, Mueang Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai 50300, Thailand
- Pictures of Chiang Mai at Mapjack.org
Projects, Partners, Ideas
http://www.ftacademy.org
Here is some concrete info on the FTA that might be of interest:
- FTA Associate Network: http://ftacademy.org/about/associate-network
- Shared exploitation: http://ftacademy.org/about/shared_exploitation
- Current programme: http://ftacademy.org/courses/programme
Gaia University
Clip Kino Festival
2-day festival, presenting online video clips related to interests in the hub (1 day curated, 1 day open participatory format).
- Andrew Paterson: http://agryfp.info | http://clipkino.info
Forward Foundation connective resources
- open education resources
- open pario (we are partnering with them)
- cube spawn (helping this project out)
- Sustainable Local Economic Development a platform and set of processes for developing business in ecological ways
Others
- Ariane Burgess, co-facilitation for Ecological Village design and redesign.
Time Line
- end of employment at DPUIC: end of February
- financing: end of January or end of February
- back in chiang mai and start of physical work at building: April 2009
- Summer festival on social innovation: July-August 2010
- Official start of regular activities: Fall 2010