Collaborative Spaces at Work

15 Festivals as collaborative spaces

The worlding ecology of comic conventions

Dania Marzo, Yeşim Tonga Uriarte and Catoni Maria Luisa Catoni

Introduction

The definition of collaborative spaces applies to spatial settings and infrastructures that stimulate creative production and organizational innovation among diverse actors (Ciaramella et al., 2018), without rigid boundaries in terms of localization in space and time. The increasing scholarly interest and related empirical investigation have mainly focused on localized “stable” settings, in which face-to-face interaction takes place across mid or long periods of time: coworking spaces (Gandini, 2015; Spinuzzi 2012), fab-labs, open innovation labs (Schmidt et al., 2015), or other “scattered” ...