For several years, on the initiative of private actors and local authorities, new places for activities and services have been created all over France: coworking, connected campuses, shared workshops, fablabs, solidarity garages, makerspaces, cultural wastelands, and public service centers. New "formats" of third places are emerging, such as microfolies or third places dedicated to professional integration.
By allowing people (holders of a local project or a business project, independent workers, employees, associations, people looking for a job ...) to gather, to work, to do or to undertake together, the third places are the new places of social link, emancipation and collective initiatives. They have developed thanks to the deployment of digital technology throughout the territory.
These third places are thus part of the major transitions in our society:
- The transformation of work: the rise of independent status, telecommuting, open innovation approaches: third places are breeding grounds for socio-professional innovation.
- The emergence of the "learning society": third places are privileged areas for lifelong learning
- The ecological transition: third places invent all sorts of initiatives around sharing, lending, reusing goods and energy frugality.
Since the emergence of the concept of third places in France, there has been a double movement of institutionalization (local authorities see third places as vectors of territorial development or revitalization) and structuring: at the level of a metropolis (Coworking Grand Lyon, Coworking Nantes), of a department, of a region (as in New Aquitaine or in the Hauts de France), via the cooperative movement, or by types of third places (such as the French Network of Fablabs RFFLabs).
Following the report of the Coworking Mission Doing things together, for better living together led by Patrick Levy-Waitz, third places are now part of the interministerial program New places, new links.
This program relies on the National Council of Third-Party Places, composed of 63 members representing the diversity of third-party places in France (coworking spaces, fablabs, cultural wastelands, educational third-party places) and on France Tiers-LieuxIt is the operational arm of the Council and the interface between the latter and all the actors to be mobilized, public actors, institutions and private actors.
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1700 shared workspaces in France: their number has tripled since 2017
It was in 2008 that the first French co-working space, La Cantine, opened its doors. Since then, the number of spaces designed for work sharing in France has grown from 360 in 2015 to 600 in 2017.
The coworking index, carried out by BAP (an operator of coworking spaces) lists 1,700 of them in 2019: more than one million m2. Two thirds of them are less than 3 years old.
8% of spaces have more than 200 stations but represent 45% of the total market area
The Paris region (including Paris) and France's ten largest cities account for 58% of coworking spaces, or 72% of the total surface area in terms of m2. Ile-de-France alone accounts for 56% of the square meters.
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Metropolises, medium-sized cities, rural areas, universities: third places are taking over the territories
For several years, on the initiative of private actors and local authorities, new places for activities and services have been created all over France: coworking, connected campuses, shared workshops, fablabs, solidarity garages, makerspaces, cultural wastelands, and public service centers. New "formats" of third places are emerging, such as microfolies or third places dedicated to professional integration.
By allowing people (holders of a local project or a business project, independent workers, employees, associations, people looking for a job ...) to gather, to work, to do or to undertake together, the third places are the new places of social link, emancipation and collective initiatives. They have developed thanks to the deployment of digital technology throughout the territory.
These third places are thus part of the major transitions in our society:
- The transformation of work: the rise of independent status, telecommuting, open innovation approaches: third places are breeding grounds for socio-professional innovation.
- The emergence of the "learning society": third places are privileged areas for lifelong learning
- The ecological transition: third places invent all sorts of initiatives around sharing, lending, reusing goods and energy frugality.
Since the emergence of the concept of third places in France, there has been a double movement of institutionalization (local authorities see third places as vectors of territorial development or revitalization) and structuring: at the level of a metropolis (Coworking Grand Lyon, Coworking Nantes), of a department, of a region (as in New Aquitaine or in the Hauts de France), via the cooperative movement, or by types of third places (such as the French Network of Fablabs RFFLabs).
Following the report of the Coworking Mission Doing things together, for better living together led by Patrick Levy-Waitz, third places are now part of the interministerial program New places, new links.
This program relies on the National Council of Third-Party Places, composed of 63 members representing the diversity of third-party places in France (coworking spaces, fablabs, cultural wastelands, educational third-party places) and on France Tiers-LieuxIt is the operational arm of the Council and the interface between the latter and all the actors to be mobilized, public actors, institutions and private actors.
Références :
1700 shared workspaces in France: their number has tripled since 2017
It was in 2008 that the first French co-working space, La Cantine, opened its doors. Since then, the number of spaces designed for work sharing in France has grown from 360 in 2015 to 600 in 2017.
The coworking index, carried out by BAP (an operator of coworking spaces) lists 1,700 of them in 2019: more than one million m2. Two thirds of them are less than 3 years old.
8% of spaces have more than 200 stations but represent 45% of the total market area
The Paris region (including Paris) and France's ten largest cities account for 58% of coworking spaces, or 72% of the total surface area in terms of m2. Ile-de-France alone accounts for 56% of the square meters.
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