THE MAKING OF COWORKING SPACES IN SLOVENIA:SPATIALIZATION BY AND OF YOUTH AS (NOT) TRUSTING THEM

Abstract

This paper explores the emergence of coworking spaces in Slovenia in the 2010s as a response to economic pressures and youth culture fads andexplores the distinction between self-generated and top-down developedcoworking spaces. While the former were created by young activists, whoseendeavours were rooted in identifying with particular modes of sociality, work,and local belonging, the latter point to a new systemic interest in youth. Thisinterest – alongside other shifts in spatialization by young people and of them– indicates a historical change in social value ascribed to the youth. This valueis founded on an ascribed entrepreneurial ability