Coworking Fuorisalone

Ventura Lambrate 2012 Call for Entries is open!

maxthemonkey — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:26:19 +0000

Fresh news, directly from Organisation in Design: it’s now open the Call for Entries for exhibitors in VenturaLambrate 2012, to be held in our district – the only curated one of the Fuorisalone – from April 17 to April 22.

From the press release:

By showing a diverse mix of craftsmanship and technology, poetry and intellect, nature and science, uniqueness and democracy, culture and commerce, Ventura Lambrate 2012 leads visitors to discover the best outings of the international design world, make new business and get inspired.

Ventura Lambrate invites renowned and established designers, as well as emerging young designers, design labels, cultural institutions and galleries, interesting initiatives and creative collectives to apply for Ventura Lambrate 2012.

Whoever is interested can send an email to milano@organisationindesign.com for detailed information on how to apply.

Please note: Ventura Lambrate is a registered trademark and an initiative of Organisation in Design.

Thinking about 2012.

maxthemonkey — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:14:59 +0000

The organization machine is working already… six months is not a long time when you have to carefully plan events that involve 60,000 visitors, over 1,000 journalists, hundreds of designer etc…

However, it’s great to be involved with this big VenturaLambrate adventure, and Cowo will try hard to keep the good up the work we did in 2011, giving Wi-Fi coverage to our locations in the area (Cowo Milano/Lambrate and Cowo Lambretto coworking spaces), providing free coworking facilites for whoever wanted to sit down and work in a professional environment and… who knows what else we will think of!

So, stay tuned friends! :-)

The New York Times on Ventura Lambrate (and viceversa).

maxthemonkey — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:00:44 +0000

Well, we knew that here at Ventura Lambrate things went fine during the recent Fuorisalone, but we didn’t really expect the NYT to talk about it!

Here are the exact words, straight from Julie Lasky’s article:

Last year, a Dutch group organized the area as the Ventura Lambrate design district, attracting youthful exhibitors with a reputation for unchecked creativity.

This year, it was the must-see destination, despite the necessity of scuttling through a tunnel to get there.

(And, by the way, this is their last year’s article, mentioning the “13,798 Grams of Design” show held right next door, at the Lambretto Art Project…).

Congrats to all the people that worked hard to make this happen, the Organisation in Design team above all :-)

The free Wi-Fi provided to the Cowo Fuorisalone community @ Ventura Lambrate: the numbers.

maxthemonkey — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:37:24 +0000

Thanks to our Wi-Fi partners SimpleSpot (see our video-interview, in Italian, to one of the founders, who visited us on the first day of Fuorisalone) we were able to offer a free, fast and reliable connection to the Internet to all the guests who stepped in our coworking place in the Lambretto premises.

As a matter of fact, the Wi-Fi aspect of our initiative was definitely the most appreciated, leaving behind the use of desks (consider, in this respect, that many visitors would navigate and check mail directly on their smart phones, while sitting on a chair, or walking around).

SimpleSpot’s Martino Massalini just gave us the numbers of the connections made:

126 logins have been made during the 5 days by 32 users, who have overall viewed more than 7,000 pages.

Besides these figures, we would like to stress the fact that all connections went very smoothly, above expectations (for instance, no one of us would have believed that the signal would reach the nearby area of the camping… well, it did!), and that the fact that most users had non-Italian phones was no problem at all, thanks to perfect international standard of the SimpleSpot platform.

For these reasons, the Fuorisalone experience has been an excellent test for the platform recently developed by these Pesaro guys… well done SimpleSpot! :-)

Next door: Public Camping!

maxthemonkey — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:35:29 +0000

Adiacente agli ambienti del Coworking Fuorisalone c’è uno dei due Public Camping organizzati dal Public Design Festival (quello indoor, l’altro si trova sotto la tangenziale vicino a Rubattino).

La struttura che ci ospita è la stessa – il Lambretto Art Project – e i nostri ingressi sono appunto uno a fianco all’altro.

Entrando al Public Camping (dove è possibile dormire con 25 euro + eventuali 5 euro per il noleggio di una tenda, se necessario) il colpo d’occhio è notevole.

Oltre alle tende, nuove e disposte in modo razionale su un esteso piano in legno, colpisce la gradevole organizzazione degli spazi: ampia reception con sedie a sdraio, zona lettura, cucina comune con frigo e microonde, servizi e docce, tavoli per leggere o lavorare, megaschermo tv e… una piacevole pineta urbana.

Veramente accogliente, come testimoniamo i numerosi ospiti che, oltre al camping, hanno puntualmente usato il nostro servizio Cowo free Wi-Fi per controllare la posta, fare qualche chiamata via Skype, lavorare un’ora o due.

Tra l’altro, l’ottima connessione in Wi-Fi fornita a Cowo da SimpleSpot riusciva ad arrivare dai locali del Cowo fino all’interno del campeggio, dove per alcuni era più confortevole stare a navigare un po’… magari nel confort della propria tenda :-)

Today’s surprise…

maxthemonkey — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 12:54:32 +0000

Someone stopped by our place last night, and left a little surprise on our door!

Intervista al nostro Wi-Fi partner: Martino Massalini di SimpleSpot.

maxthemonkey — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:50:33 +0000

Se c’è un protagonista dell’esperienza “Coworking Fuorisalone”, è lui: il Wi-Fi.

I visitatori del Fuorisalone sono in gran parte stranieri, ed alcuni ci hanno confidato il disagio provato nel non aver visto (online prima di partire, e poi dal vivo, una volta arrivati) nessuna rete di Wi-Fi disponibile in Italia.

Nè aeroporto, né zone pubbliche, nulla.

Quindi i complimenti ricevuti da Cowo per l’iniziativa “Free desk, Free Wi-Fi” si sono sprecati… molti degli utenti Cowo di questi giorni sono designer e professionisti che espongono nelle molte iniziative qui in zona Ventura Lambrate, e per loro è di fondamentale importanza poter verificare online gli sviluppi dei numerosissimi contatti personali che si prendono in questi giorni – a livello personale, ma anche e soprattutto professionale e commerciale.

Il constatare che in Italia navigare su Internet continua ad essere una cosa complicata e difficile non ci fa figurare bene, sullo scenario globale.

Anche per questo pensiamo che iniziative come quella di SimpleSpot – Wi-Fi partner di Cowo per la settimana del Fuorisalone – siano da sostenere in tutti i modi.

Martino Massalini, uno dei fondatori di SimpleSpot, è venuto a trovarci il primo giorno del Fuorisalone, e ci ha rilasciato un’intervista dove racconta il suo progetto di Wi-Fi libero.

Vorremmo ringraziare Martino e SimpleSpot per averci permesso di dare un servizio molto importante, e per aver condiviso in pieno lo spirito Cowo.

Nota bene: SimpleSpot funziona benissimo, abbiamo potuto testare anche la sua nuova funzionalità da cellulari non italiani, constatando che… non perde un colpo.

(Per chi volesse incontrare Martino, è quasi certa la sua presenza al CowoCamp2011 di sabato prossimo…).

From coworking to megaparty, and back.

maxthemonkey — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:06:54 +0000

Last night the premises of our Coworking Fuorisalone at the Lambretto (Ventura Lambrate design district) have hosted a super-party, with deejay set and an amazing, international crowd, coming from all over the city to celebrate the new Fruit of the Forest design magazine.

It was quite a storm that took away our quiet, efficient, Wi-Fi powered coworking situation, as described by this picture taken yesterday at 1 am…

…turning it into a high-volume, crowded and crazy disco floor (12 pm)…

…to come to its original function few hours later, ready for the first coworkers at 9.30 am (even though on temporary tables)!

Eventually, the Lago tables were put back in place before noon, with the help of the people in the space, so everything was back to normal well before lunch time.

What a tour de force!

The many wonders of Ventura Lambrate 2011 is no magic. It’s the careful work of a fine team.

maxthemonkey — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:31:53 +0000

This interview with Margo Konings and Margriet Vollenberg of Organisation in Design tells a lot about what’s behind the exciting atmosphere we are enjoying in Ventura Lambrate these days.

Gooood morning Fuorisalone! Cowo doors are open :-)

maxthemonkey — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:20:04 +0000

Ok, we are here!

First coworker is already settled in a beautiful Lago desk (thank you friends!), Wi-Fi seem to be working, people starting to come in asking questions.

The four spaces offering free coworking – located in the Ventura Lambrate are, near Romolo MM station and near Via Palmanova – are all ready to welcome visitors with free desks and free Wi-Fi.

Welcome to Fuorisalone.

Welcome to Cowo coworking community :-)