Last Thursday real estate investment company Sponda launched a new service concept – co-working space called The Mothership of Work (MOW). MOW is a co-working space for freelancers and businesses, providing not only work space but other spaces together with additional services such as health and well-being, accounting and legal services. One of the main aims of MOW is to create a community which empower employees - various activities and events organized there help to reach that aim.
So back to the event. PATI team is very keen on learning about new workspaces and co-working spaces around Helsinki, therefore we were fast in getting in contact with MOW and going to look around new spaces for inspiration. And how did it go for us?
It was fun! There were so many people! More than 500 participants were on the list, and the place was crowded. The concept of the event was something new at least for PATI team. MOW made a small conference “Telling the Future” which included 5 presentations about the future of Work, Education, Health, Food and Love in 5 to 10 minutes. After the presentations, participants were able to look around the space which is distributed through 6 floors and have a sneak-peak how it would feel to be working there. But I am not here to promote anything, rather share my thoughts about the event and conference. I will not go through all of the topics but I must say: some interesting things were presented! From eating various bugs to improving own health by biohacking (optimizing yourself based on your current health, well-being, genetic data and other information). Shortly, I loved the idea of mini-conference and I believe that “conference” type of knowledge sharing even in smaller circles is the future of knowledge work!
And I could extent a bit more about the Future of Work which was the topic presented by Outi Kuitonen from Demos Helsinki. She started with introducing the concept of work by the famous 20th century philosopher Hannah Arendt where is identified different modes of work: from ideation, construction of work to action and speech. Speech, especially in her times, was the freedom to a man and society. And these actions such as speaking and collaborating was the leading theme of this presentation. According to Outi, work in 2030 will be much more global and free. Societies and communities will gather together to collaborate, share ideas, discuss and, thus, innovate. Many of traditional tasks will be performed by robots (I would say, also automatized), much of own time will be spent on different activities (why not a hackathon on one’s free time), and world will be everyone’s office. Outi gave an example when they hired one professional from Serbia to prepare a task needed for Demos Helsinki. They found a person through a website which gathers professionals from around the world to share their expertise.
I agree with a lot of things that Outi Kuitonen presented in those valuable 6 minutes that she used. It made me think: are we all becoming freelancers? Working from project to project, not anymore devoted to one company or organization? And I believe this is the direction we are heading to. However, many times I end up pondering about those people who are afraid of that change or do not want to change at all. How will they adapt? How much are they going to resist? How much time will it take for traditional businesses and old companies to adapt to this kind of work? What will happen to those who won’t? Many questions started running in my head after this presentation and I believe that is always a good sign for the presenter. I just hope that we can get some hints regarding these issues in our PATI project…
Your sincerely,
Vitalija
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