01628nam a22001817a 4500999001900000008004100019100003300060245010500093260001700198300003000215520093300245650009301178700003601271773001701307906001401324942000701338952010101345  c513824d513824200904b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aVidaillet, Benedicte 917554  aCoworking spaces as places where economic diversity can be articulated: Towards a theory of syntopia  aOrganization  a27(1), Jan 2019. p. 60-87  aThis article reports a qualitative study of several coworking spaces conducted over 3 years. We build on Foucault’s reflection concerning heterotopias to develop a new concept – that of ‘syntopia’ – for theorizing this type of space, whose main characteristic is that its alternative potential lies in enabling its users to articulate economic diversity. Our contribution is twofold: on one hand, our theorization of coworking spaces helps better account for their complexity, for the tensions that can arise within them and for their impacts; on the other hand, with the concept of syntopia, we provide a concept that could help identify other places of a post capitalocentric economy, likely to be a source of profound change in our society. We propose to develop a ‘syntopology’ whose object would be to study systematically the different forms of syntopias, their characteristics, potentials and limitations.  aCapitalism, Coworking, Gibson-Graham, Heterotopia, Post capitalocentric, Syntopia917535  aYoucef Bousalham, France917536  aOrganization  aWORKSPACE  cAR  00102ddc40709387854aIIPAbIIPAd2020-09-04h27(1), 2019. p. 60-87pAR122918r2020-09-04yAR