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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.

Look at all the categories (or maybe subcategories) of third spaces that have grown up in Boston and become civic spaces and viable(?) business opportunities.

Could museums and/or museum cafes become co-working spaces? They would definitely provide a creative environment.

Third spaces in the business context.

Some useful language that echoes the definition and examples of third spaces that we've been working with.

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

How does one switch off from work and make the transition?

80 per cent of Australian's feel the pressure to have better work life balance. 83 per cent hate or don't like their job, and since the introduction of the term work life balance, depression has increased by a factor of 10.

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.

Community Design Associates are not only asked to talk about design, but also about their own experiences and the nuances that get missed in public consultations where the project is set and residents can only ask questions or give opinions.

72 percent of firms that give their staff flexibility over where and when they work say there is a direct link to greater productivity

Many businesses can be run successfully from anywhere in the world, using modern collaboration software and teleconferencing, but other businesses may need "an environment where people interact in person, and startups are a great example of that.

The environments in which we work also are changing.

Waiometra one of the leading biosafety cabinet manufacturer in India, our class II type biological safety cabinet is a partially enclosed work-space that has built in fortification for the worker, the environment, and the material inside of it.

This kind of "third space" is really a workplace that is not home and not a coffee shop.  Alternative workspaces that draw people out of the homes and give them more and better access to workplace amenities can help people be more productive and create community.