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An interesting thought piece on the issues around third places.  What is the etiquette of using a third place, particularly when it is a place of business? Lingering vs. loitering?

My friend and former colleague, Max van Balgooy, suggests in his latest blog that museums can serve as "third spaces" to allow a safe place for diverse people to discuss and explore sensitive issues, such as those arising from Ferguson and related events. While we often think of "third spaces" being places for like-minded folks to gather informally, should they also provide a place to safely voice hurt and anger. What do you think about this interpretation of "third spaces?"

Background on how Muslims define home, work and a third space: One space in the domestic sphere (the family and the home); a second space is the sphere of civic engagement (including school, work and other forms of public participation); and a "Third Space" where individual, sometimes professional, and sometimes transgressive acts are played out: where people let their "real" selves show.

Social media app uses idea of "third place" (not Facebook and not MySpace) to create your digital home.

interesting-- will have to check this out.. (I did quick peek-- might be a pseudo dating platform?!) BUT could be an interesting analog for self-organizing meetings inside museums

millenials are eager for third space experiences at retail food outlets, e.g., grocery stories and restaurants gen-Xers also interested; baby boomers, less so Whole Foods comedy videos on YouTube showcase it as a spot for socializing and matchmaking

I sometimes wonder if museums might create a separate entrance for 'third place' side experiences... is there a way to take some less valuable square footage - and turn it into something unique... and build some buzz around the experience

We've heard this kind of description of a cafe as third place, but I loved this phrase: "European-styled place, with hints of grandma"

New media technology provides a "Third Space" where some Muslims who are using social media to contest gender assumptions, normative aspects of religious practice, and cultural experience. In this context, YouTube offers such a space as an informal meeting place to create community and to express new identities.

Interesting! And great to know about in the context of our soon-to-launch online exhibition, Muslima: Muslim Women's Art & Voices.

"Cafe and bar" as "third space" -- is "third space" becoming a buzz-word in the world of investments?

Part of major trend in all places-- that need top 'pull' people into their physical space!!!\ Retail stores are going through the same transformation...

The vaunted "third space" isn't home, and isn't work-it's more like the living room of society at large.  It's a place where you are neither family nor co-worker, and yet where the values, interests, gossip, complaints and inspirations of these two other spheres intersect.  It's a place at least one step removed from the structures of work and home, more random, and yet familiar enough to breed a sense of identity and connection.  It's a place of both possibility and comfort, where the unexpected and the mundane transcend and mingle. And nine times out of ten, it's a bar.

The extra space dilemma resulted in the creation of a prototype model transforming the structure into a "Third Space" environment and possibly paving the path for more locations in the chain to follow suit.

What does it mean for a third space to combine real and virtual audiences?

Dr Fraser ... coined The Third Space?

Third spaces in the business context.

Another take on what "third space" can mean: For this publisher, it represents the physical space created at their booth - the space between their online presence and their print platform!

Referring to an exhibition called "Third Space: Inventing the Possible" set to open at North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art, Director M'Bow said, "The Third Space is how people in hard times create a space that is no longer bounded by limitations."

Interesting use of "third space"...enter the self-contained worlds and invented spaces that suggest new forms of the city, as they rise from the rubble of the old

Smarter travel combined with alternative working practices could ease strains on infrastructure and transport and turn cities into smarter places to work and live.

This article suggests to me that senior centers need to be re-thought. Seniors want to be in the thick of things even if they are just sitting with friends over luke-warm coffee. Enter the museum's third place...

Interesting thought piece as we get ready for CAM and the 3rd Spaces session.  Are museums more like the library as 3rd space or the one described at the end of the article?