We need something comparable to an office:

• space with a “work atmosphere” to work on his projects (Willi)
• space for other (also future) coworkers of him (Willi)
• space in Berlin to work on his PhD, which is at the MPSD Hamburg (Florian)

→ We want to unite because our needs are close enough and together we have more possibilities (also economically)

We have experience together:

• We both are developing different but new things, so we do a creative work and need stimulation for that
• we already made the experience that discussing the project of the other can not only stimulating his about also your project

→ We want to unite because we think that together we have more than the sum of our solitary work

⇒ A project is born

Letting this seed grow, a vision developed about what such an imaginary space could be

• space to meet with people because of our actual work
• space to meet people with different background to get new and “random” input
• * not only in terms of your actual work, but for example one could learn from an artist about a good surrounding that stimulates creativit
• space that is enjoyable
• space that is free to host events

⇒ “Le Cafe des Sciences”

Learning from others:

• research showed that the concept coworking space, born in the startup scene isalready close to our ideas
• we found a decent place: http://www.tuesdaycoworking.com and we will have a table there from mid March to learn how those work

Perspective:

• making our own coworking space that integrates all our recent and future ideas

What type of place shall we choose?

• Normal Gewerbefläche?
• Mietshäuser Syndikat?
• Old Cafe/Restaurant?

Which form shall the place have:

• GmbH?
• “Cafe of a BRCP-like Association”? (Vereinsgbäude)
• Circolo Arci: Italian meeting places of the communist party

What else could/should we include? Things that go beyond existing concepts like coworking space

• Consultation for physics problems
• Talks/lectures for non scientists about physics/science
• Specialized Talks/lectures for experts
• conferences/meetings of the BRCP

Discussion

• An unoccupied place for guests would be very helpful for members of the BRCP or other guest in Berlin (Markus)
• If we want to include even people with backgrounds far away like artists etc., we should do this from the beginning (Markus)
• The community feeling of the members of a coworking space should be important from the beginning: “find common success stories” (Markus)
• To make the place successfull, the location matters a lot (Willi)