This collection brings together publications produced within the framework of the CORAL project (2021–2025), showcasing research on collaborative workspaces, makerspaces, social innovation, alternative development pathways, entrepreneurship, and rural transformation across Europe.
The contributions explore how community-led initiatives, coworking and makerspaces, social enterprises, and grassroots innovations foster new forms of economic organization, knowledge exchange, social inclusion, and sustainable development in both urban and peripheral regions.
Collectively, these publications advance understanding of how collaborative and alternative practices can contribute to more resilient, equitable, and transformative futures.
Access the complete collection of CORAL project publications here
- Alternative features in the making. Insights from three makerspaces in peripheral Greece by Danai Liodaki
- Creative hubs as drivers of change in peripheral business ecosystems. A comparison between Germany and Austria by Chen Gao & Eleonora Psenner
- CWS and their place in local entrepreneurial ecosystems, a comparison between Germany and Austria by Chen Gao
- Exploring the potential of coworking spaces for quality of working life and wellbeing a systematic review of academic literature by Francesca Ciccarelli
- Gender Dynamics in Collaborative Workspaces in Rural and Peripheral Areas in Austria by Alexandra Wrbka
- Grassroots social innovations for post- capitalistic futures by Danai Liodaki and Colm Stockdale
- Is making alternative. Rethinking development in Germany’s makerspaces by Danai Liodaki
- Knowledge exchange in peripheral coworking spaces. A study of proximities using social network analysis by Mikel Oleaga
- The role of collaborative workspaces in promoting networking opportunities a comparison between urban and peripheral contexts by Lorenzo Marmo, Antonis Rovolis & Vasilis Avdikos
- Theorizing Multiple Geographies Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research by Danai Liodaki, Lela Rekhviashvili, Thilo Lang, Elia Apostolopoulou
- Transformative social innovation and rural collaborative workspaces by Colm Stockdale & Vasilis Avdikos
- Unfinished sympathy. On the limitations of sharing as a work practice in community-led coworking-compressed by Nikos Gastinos & Malte Höfner
- Valuation in Rural Social Innovation Processes – Analysing Micro-Impact of a Collaborative Community in Southern Italy by Federica Ammaturo & Suntje Schmidt
