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Preface

Cities and Habitats

People are at the centre of everything that we do.

Unexpected meetings of minds.

A preface on Media Evolution’s coworking space in Malmö and the lessons behind this book.


People are at the centre of everything that we do. As a non-profit member organisation that brings together innovative tech agencies: the creatives, the big corps, the makers, the academics, the strategists and the local municipalities and regions of southern Sweden, Media Evolution is ideally poised to imagine the workplace of tomorrow. Our economic constitution prompts us to reinvest profit back into our work for members, while our strong presence in Malmö combined with experience in bridging industries and interests, allows us to create unexpected meetings of minds.

A decade ago, we sought to build a space where we could facilitate these serendipitous meetings on a daily basis, face to face. Media Evolution City, a coworking space based in a historic industrial area, opened its doors in 2012 and currently houses around 500 people across two locations. It is a physical manifestation of our beliefs and knowledge, an ever-evolving mechanism continually affirming and debunking our assumptions of how people create and work.

We think it is time to put to paper some of the learnings we have amassed along the way. Our perspective and projects. How we build for the future. And, of course, how people are at the centre of what we do.

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November 2022

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Media Evolution is a community-owned, non-profit platform for co-creation, knowledge sharing, and futures-thinking. We are situated in Malmö, Sweden, where we run a place for work and meetings. Media Evolution was founded in 2008 as a collaboration between the private, public, and academic sectors — united by the idea that innovation happens best when we work across disciplines.

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