THECUBE offers its members a great workspace with interesting architectural features. We feel that no matter what budget your company has, it deserves a workspace. The first steps in building client trust lies in acquiring and office in a great location and one that matches the aspirations of your brand. We like our members to feel like THECUBE is part of their brand.
Membership to our coworking space is easy, flexible, and affordable. Potential members choose approximately how much time they will spend at THECUBE per month and sign up when they are ready.
You can stop, upgrade, downgrade month to month. There is no deposit or Members have a choice of either picking a permanent area or changing every time they come in.
For all our memberships, please follow link www.thecubelondon/membership
THECUBE coworking space has many beautiful architectural features, like corrugated aluminium ceiling, tall windows, steel staircase, and limestone flooring.
Coworking is a new type of office space, which started in the late 90’s in Silicon Valley. Nearly 15 years later it has evolved to cater to people who are looking for the professional environment of an office, but the character of a members club.
THECUBE is located in Spitalfields making it easily accessible from both quirky Shoreditch and the City. Our focus is on helping creative ideas grow by providing an aesthetically clean office space, business resources, and a community of people who are creative and entrepreneurial.
There is always someone at hand to help with anything from PR, branding, to website development, and finance. Imagine the support that you would get from being part of a big organisation, but with the independence of having your own enterprise.
For more pictures follow the link and to view the space please call Araceli on 02073779279.
THECUBE is a highly aesthetic coworkign based in East London. The space is open plan with high ceilings and large windows with a high design aesthetic. We are more than just office space or hot desking as THECUBE offers our members the ability to form a community of contacts, access business resources, and participate in exciting events.
We are steadily building our name within the East London community and want to continue to be recognised as a place that supports the area’s creative ideas and enterprises.
How do social perceptions and intellectual stereotypes influence our own road to success? Does this trickle down to the way the economy is tiered?
If society constantly educates that a certain path will always lead to success, then people choosing that path know that from inception they will be ‘high flyers’. The question is: what happens now? The state of our economy has been an equaliser, as both sides are finding it hard to get ahead, but will this influence the future of our economy?
At THECUBE we have a variety of graduates from both sides and we are interested to see how they will develop and evolve, how their struggles will influence the type of business they start, and the paths they will take with regards to their careers. Going back to the psychology involved, many of the corporate or financial graduates are adamant that they want a specific career, one which will have them employed by a big corporate name. For many, this is the first time that they will experience failure, and they don’t know how to deal with it. Their linear thinking allows them to only keep moving forward without having a peripheral look at the choices around them. In the past, this would have been a positive quality, having that tunnel vision directed at your goal, however, we now notice that this is what’s holding them back: the inability to think freely out of the constraints of what they will be or should be. Most haven’t considered another choice, and do not hold the tools to be diverse nor the ability to adapt, as an ‘opportunity chameleon’.
Conversely, the creative graduates have an innate ability to think away from the prescribed path; their minds work in a way that allows them to follow tangents that might aid them in some way to getting to the goal, even if they do stray onto an unconventional route. They can mould or ‘colour’ themselves to fit or blend in with any opportunity. They have been taught about collaboration, as is the nature of most sectors of the creative industries, and about building a strong network. Most importantly, they will have to be resourceful to get their dream job. There has never been a sense of entitlement as there has been and still is with the corporate side, and in the end only the most talented, strongest and diverse creative individuals rise to the top.
If these attributes begin to seep into the way that corporate graduates operate, it will have a monumental impact in the type of employee these graduates will become. The arrogance that used to prevail in the corporate world, where connections, wealth, and entitlement meant an easy ride to the top, has been swept away by the recent financial crash and its ensuing chaos. It is now a game of equals. The fact that graduates now have to wait a year, or even longer, before being hired by their ideal corporation will create a filter that will eliminate the people who would have preferred an easy path towards financial success and a prestigious job title. The graduates of the near future will instead keep a dedicated head on their shoulders, keep fighting for what they want to achieve, and will as a result be grateful for what heights they reach whilst being eager to perform – not just for money, but because they have developed a passion for what they do.
THECUBE is a coworking space for enterprise and we believe that the graduates who will really make an impact on the economy are those with ideas – whether they are coming from a creative background or a corporate one, it is the production of ideas that will move things forward. What would further ensure stability is the merging if creative and corporate skills together: ideas are nothing without the people to implement those ideas, or ‘idea engineers’.
If these graduates and their talents are not wasted and are nurtured instead, they will make better employees, who will have a real desire to improve the industry they are going into, rather than being thoughtlessly pursuing money and stability. And of course there will be those who aren’t content with being employees, who will go on to create amazing new businesses, which will help with the labour involved in rebirthing the economy as a better, more powerful and healthy being. THECUBE is looking to incubate and catch these graduates, with the interest of helping them learn from each other’s skills to create versatile and innovative enterprises.
We believe that homogeny and specialisation are archaic ways of conducting business – we are concerned only with forging a better path for all industries, so that our future destination is one of stability and prosperity.
Written by: Araceli Camargo Kilpatrick
Edited by: Russell Thomas
As we are still establishing our image in the community, the first space we would like to feature is our lovely entrance and courtyard, which is a rarity in these parts. We have great plans for the summer, like a 4th of July Barbeque, hosting Creative Boom’s birthday bash, graffiti installation, so please stay tuned.
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Alison Coward started Bracket with the ambition to give creatives the skills and tools to work collaboratively. She joined our THECUBE’s coworking space in November 2009.
Bracket works with creative practitioners (e.g. self-employed designers, artists, illustrators etc) to help them develop and deliver collaborative projects effectively, supported by the use of online tools.
Collaboration offers many benefits for the creative individual – enabling them to work on larger projects, access new opportunities, share resources and learn new skills. Now, the availability of various social media for new ways of communication brings with it the chance for the creative industries to become even more productive and effective in initiating and delivering collaborative projects.
