RGCS is both an alternative learned society , a think tank and an immaterial maker space about and for new work practices . Collaborative communities and collaborative movements (coworkers, makers, hackers, DIY) are both a research object and a lever to transform work practices .
Since late 2016, the network co-produces a new research method (Open Walked Event-Based Experimentations ) aiming at transforming jointly academic and entrepreneurial work practices. This method aims at becoming a #commons for academics and entrepreneurs involved in it (e.g. with a sharing of the symbolic capital of impact and citations).
Journal of Openness, Commons & Organizing (JOCO) is affiliated to the Research Group on Collaborative Spaces (RGCS) and shares the values of open and citizen sciences. Its ambition is interdisciplinary, with contributions from fields such as management, organization studies, innovation studies, organizational sociology, urban sociology, economic geography, anthropology, political sciences, philosophy, psychology.
