Work is a Four-Letter Word is a playbook for community-based work and meeting spaces that draws from our experience of being the instigators and caretakers of our place on Stora varvsgatan 6 in Malmö, Sweden for over a decade.
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Work is a four-letter word book is written with the ambition to inspire and give tools to aspiring spacemakers and features three parts:
Work, what is it anyway?
We believe that life and work—the individual and the professional identity, the workplace and the colleagues, the digital office and the physical meeting place—is a whole package that should be reimagined from the ground up.
Mindsets for workspace design
As custodians of a coworking space for big and small businesses, we’ve come to learn that one is more than a mere property manager. The book features 13 principles that we have come to learn are crucial for creating and maintaining a considerate space for work.
Tools
Building on the mindsets this part of the book digs deeper and makes our philosophies more tangible. With the use of the ten tools provided you can roll up your sleeves and get started transforming your space right away.
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- 60 pages
- Words: Alisa Larsen in conversation with Magnus Thure Nilsson and Martin Thörnkvist
- Illustrations: Jon Koko
- Graphical concept: HolsterGreen Studio
- Layout: Linnea Paulsson Neppelberg
- ISBN: 978-91-987389-0-2
“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
– Albert Camus
