Sociologist | Coworking, Mobile Work & Future of Work and Workplace | Healthy Working Environment | Zentrum Digitale Transformation Thüringen | German Coworking Federation - Bundesverband Coworking Deutschland
To all researchers in my network working on coworking, new work, and collaborative spaces: I’m happy to share the Call for Papers for the RGCS Symposium 2026, organised by the Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS), together with the Chair of Urban and Regional Economics at Technische Universität Berlin, and ZeTT - Das Zukunftszentrum Thüringens. Our theme “Bringing Work Back In” invites us to look beyond the idea of coworking as a space — and to focus instead on work itself: its practices, contradictions, and transformations. The deadline for abstract submissions is November 23, 2025. The symposium will take place on March 5–6, 2026, at Technische Universität Berlin, with an optional OWEE day on March 7. We look forward to your contributions and to continuing this conversation in Berlin next March! More details in the post below. 👇
📢 Call for Papers – RGCS Symposium 2026 in Berlin “Bringing Work Back In: Coworking as Practices, Atmospheres, and Organizational Transformation” 📅 March 5–6, 2026 📍 Technische Universität Berlin, Germany The Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS) invites submissions for the 2026 Symposium, jointly organized by the Chair of Urban and Regional Economics (TU Berlin) and ZeTT - Das Zukunftszentrum Thüringens. Over the past decade, coworking research has often privileged spaces over work, community over labour, and innovation over inequality. This symposium proposes a shift in emphasis — to place work—its diverse practices, conditions, and contradictions—at the center of coworking research. We welcome contributions that explore coworking not merely as a spatial form, but as an assemblage of practices, relations, technologies, and affects — a site where transformations of labour and capitalism are negotiated, reproduced, and contested. Possible themes include (but are not limited to): 💡 Work practices and inequalities in coworking 💡 Atmospheres, affects, and embodied work 💡 Reproductive, relational, and care work 💡 Coworking beyond the space 💡 The political economy of coworking and AI We particularly encourage interdisciplinary and critical perspectives that challenge dominant narratives of innovation and flexibility — and foreground care, justice, and alternative ways of organizing work. 📄 Submit extended abstracts (1,000 words) by November 23, 2025 🔎 More information in the document attached or on our website Janet Merkel Dr. Alexandra Bernhardt Stefan Haefliger François-Xavier de Vaujany Anna Glaser Gislene Haubrich Sabine Carton Alessandra Migliore Albane Grandazzi David VALLAT Olivier IRRMANN Fiza Brakel Emannuel Costa, PhD Mickael Peiro Camille PFEFFER Adèle Gruen #RGCS2026 #coworking #coworkingspaces #collaborativespaces #AI #coworkingatmospheres #NWOW #newwaysoforganizing #futureofwork
