About
cooperBricolage is a coworking community that hangs out in cozy cafes. We’re entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, technologists… we’re independents.
The name evokes the “Inventors Institute” originated in the late 1870s by inventor Peter Cooper, along with the concept of people getting together to make good things happen (more on that below).
We add a layer of social context to the cafe environment– lots of people sit in cafes with laptops, but they rarely talk to one another. We provide a way for those people to get to know each other better and overcome social boundaries.
The goal is to create a community of entrepreneurs to work together instead of at our homes and alone - sharing (when others are receptive) and respecting (when others ask for their space). While sounding utopian, the goal is to spawn new ideas and create a fertile environment for startups to migrate to more professional spaces for their corporate growth.
And for you who are really curious, from Wikipedia:
Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines, among them the visual arts and literature, to refer to:
- the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things which happen to be available
- a work created by such a process
It is borrowed from the French word bricolage, from the verb bricoler – equivalent to the English “do-it-yourself”, the core meaning in French being, however, “fiddle, tinker” and, by extension, “make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are to hand (regardless of their original purpose)”.
Bricolage as a design approach – in the sense of building by trial and error – is often contrasted to engineering: theory-based construction.
A person who engages in bricolage is a bricoleur: someone who invents his or her own strategies for using existing materials in a creative, resourceful, and original way.
