Skype conversation with Alice + Indy from Hub Paddington!

thanks guys! it was so great to check-in and hear about all you are doing and share stories!

Peer-to-peer relationships

Institutional figureheads

Big hub is not just a small hub made bigger

Putting in educational programmes

What is the best corporate platform and then work backwards?

Get the right institutional partners in play

Infrastructure being developed – building curriculum structures

Club-model, sequence of clubs that operate

Network hosts, already have networks already, create their clubs in their venue

we entrepreneurship

Class of hosts, knowledge hosts/network hosts/space hosts

Predictability – face-to-face members

Navigation – how does the host tell where the member is, high turnover and no fixed location

Seeding process – community of 120-150 firstly

Curating the next phase of the pop-up Hub

Archetypes – understanding patterns

People who set-up networks, then moves on to the next thing

Not asking people to do a job but do what they do

Founding member rights – give them something so they feel ownership

10% based on scholarships, invite people we think are going to be key

Joburg – is it useful to invest as an event space or office space – to allow you to build the community

Lots of conferences – designed to build presence

PR campaign – avoid, and host dinners, real tangible experiences

TED team – sign the whole space

Artist-in-resident

Chalk and chairs exercise

Getting the sequence right – invest in the first space

First 12 members will set the tone of the space – set the tone – once culture goes wrong

Bristol was an example – rebooted because the core team didn't get the culture right - new space, new place

Crowd sourcing ideas but not the design

Feel open and habitable, people can leave the imprint on the space or the culture of the story – what the aesthetic of that is?

Avoid IP – open-source to the community, overriding ethic, authorship not healthy

Celebrating successes in Hub newsletter, cake to celebrate, culture ways of celebrating, not in the IP, system ties, reputation ties ways

Gifts to the Hub – libraries, nice chairs, etc. – should be acknowledged – habitecture – ways of handling the respect that doesn’t commodify

Petal table – sociable furniture, Hub Zurich – relooked at the table, Hub London – have done an open source version