Towards a spatial understanding of identity play: coworking spaces as playgrounds for identity
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In: Culture and Organization, Vol. 28, No. 5, 03.09.2022, p. 448-470.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a spatial understanding of identity play
T2 - coworking spaces as playgrounds for identity
AU - Cnossen, Boukje
AU - Stephenson, Kathleen
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2022/9/3
Y1 - 2022/9/3
N2 - Based on thirty interviews conducted in ten coworking spaces in Amsterdam and Paris, we ask whether and how members of coworking spaces engage in identity play, and what mechanisms related to space seem to enable such identity play. We identify four types of spatial mechanisms members and hosts of coworking spaces claim to create or engage in, and show how these relate to experimentation with professional identity. In so doing, we highlight possible material and spatial aspects of identity play. This paper contributes to the literature on identity play by drawing attention to the physicality and constitutive nature of the holding spaces necessary for identity play, and to research on coworking spaces by drawing attention to their possible identity effects.
AB - Based on thirty interviews conducted in ten coworking spaces in Amsterdam and Paris, we ask whether and how members of coworking spaces engage in identity play, and what mechanisms related to space seem to enable such identity play. We identify four types of spatial mechanisms members and hosts of coworking spaces claim to create or engage in, and show how these relate to experimentation with professional identity. In so doing, we highlight possible material and spatial aspects of identity play. This paper contributes to the literature on identity play by drawing attention to the physicality and constitutive nature of the holding spaces necessary for identity play, and to research on coworking spaces by drawing attention to their possible identity effects.
KW - coworking
KW - coworking spaces
KW - holding environments
KW - Identity play
KW - organizational space
KW - Management studies
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/182d709a-7618-3ec4-88c8-113a534f4d64/
U2 - 10.1080/14759551.2022.2072309
DO - 10.1080/14759551.2022.2072309
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85131520865
VL - 28
SP - 448
EP - 470
JO - Culture and Organization
JF - Culture and Organization
SN - 1475-9551
IS - 5
ER -