‘Times are a-changing’: how coworking spaces could sustain cultural workers. The case of BASE, Milan.

This paper explores the role that collaborative spaces play in sustaining cultural workers to perform their job. In particular, our research – based on a single case study – explores how cultural workers leverage on this kind of spaces to develop a surrogate holding environment through three main groups of mechanisms: networking with co-workers, identifying with the space, and living the space. Taken together, our results emphasize the prominent role that the physical space still has for workers even in the digitalization era.