Dream Kitchen, Your Neighborhood Co-working Event, this Friday

From last year's Dream Kitchen sessions

Design Kompany's office spaceYou are invited to work at Design Kompany.

No, we won’t pay you. But then, you won’t have to listen to us, either.

It’s called casual co-working. There’s a number of co-working sites like this popping up everywhere. We are calling ours Dream Kitchen. It’s happening this Friday, March 14.

Dream Kitchen by Design Kompany 2008

 

Dream Kitchen is a bi-weekly work-together. And a short seminar/presentation/discussion over a long lunch. It’s an opportunity for a self-starter like you, to…

  • Network: Looking for a new gig? Someone to collaborate with on your secret project? Who knows who you might meet here that could lead somewhere.
  • Brainstorm: Need feedback on your current project? Ideas for a new product?
  • Create: We’ve got wifi, a big table, and a couple of other places where you can prop your laptop on and get busy. If you are a work-at-home guy/gal, this is a chance to dress up;)
  • Socialize: Change is fun!
  • Learn: We will feature something new at each event—an informative speaker or discussion forum on an interesting topic

This week, Melody Biringer, a power entrepreneur and founder of Startup Junkie and Crave Party (”an exclusive, festive, glam-gal gathering”), will be on hand to share with us her wisdom on fostering a community.

Interested? Please get in touch with us to reserve a spot! (letsplay[at]design-kompany[dot]com)

Dream Kitchen I
Friday, March 14
Kornerhaus, the new office space of Design Kompany
10 AM - 2 PM
Q&A with Melody Biringer and lunch (bring your own) at noon
10am-2pm, drop in any time

Past Dream Kitchens

In case you need more serious, on-going office spaces… In Seattle, there are two full-time co-working locations (more like hourly rental offices, these): Office Nomads and MyDayOffice.

48 Responses to “Dream Kitchen, Your Neighborhood Co-working Event, this Friday”


  1. Gravatar Icon 1 Bill Mar 10th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

    What a great idea! Have a potential conflict this Friday, but I’d definitely look to attend some of the future episodes of this, if not this one.

  2. Gravatar Icon 2 dipika Mar 13th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    Sounds good. We got a lot of feedback from the series of six Dream Kitchens we ran last summer. One of them was to set a theme for each session, to give people a focus to decide if they’d like to attend.

    So then we invited a guest speaker from the Artist Trust to talk about grants–that was popular. Here were some other ones:

    Dream Kitchen: ‘Hit the High Note’
    Launching Dream Kitchen: The Art of Dialogue

    Tomorrow we’re going to learn all about Melody Biringer’s event company Crave, and two weeks hence we’ll have a guest speaker share his experiences as a small indie publisher.

    If anyone out there has suggestions for topics or speakers, drop us a line!

    Also: keep up with Dream Kitchen and other Design Kompany events on our new events page.

  3. Gravatar Icon 3 kitchens May 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    Sounds like the company you have when you are not having a company. Interesting.

  4. Gravatar Icon 4 Kitchens May 28th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    Totally agree, change is fun and so socializations are. Here you got my feedback.

    Greetings

  5. Gravatar Icon 5 Kitchens May 29th, 2008 at 7:43 am

    Now here it’s the feedback www.betterkitchens.co.uk

  6. Gravatar Icon 6 Chef Anya Jul 15th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    Guess its all over now - did it go well?
    Planning on holding other similar events?

  7. Gravatar Icon 7 Strongest Brands Aug 7th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    Its interesting idea however it seems that with the new social media websites that networking has changed from the face to face meet and greets to more online approach or a mixture of them booth. I would be interested in knowing on average how many people attend the Dream Kitchen meetings

  8. Gravatar Icon 8 Demolaw Aug 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 am

    @Kitches, dude what are you talking about? A company when you dont have a company? huh?

  9. Gravatar Icon 9 Gerry Aug 26th, 2008 at 9:30 am

    What a novel idea. I’m cruios to know how this works out.

  10. Gravatar Icon 10 dipika Aug 27th, 2008 at 5:48 pm

    Gerry, you can read the roundup of speakers Design Kompany invited for our Dream Kitchen’s spring 2008 series. Great topics, including small press publishing, art inspired by math, and cardboard furniture that’s been featured in galleries around Seattle this year.

    Tons of fun, but most important, spontaneous face-to-face conversations among people who got inspired to get creative and make new stuff.

  11. Gravatar Icon 11 NoxVideos Aug 29th, 2008 at 7:34 am

    Hmmmmm feeling hungry after seeing this post.

  12. Gravatar Icon 12 abyss Sep 1st, 2008 at 9:15 am

    can you upload your meetings on your website? I mean for those who can’t make it. Atleast an insight to such meetings can be a good learning experience.

  13. Gravatar Icon 13 dipika Sep 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 am

    Chef Anya,

    About future events: check out Design Kompany’s events page to see what’s coming. We started hosting events in 2006 with a photo show called ‘Dazzle’ . The biggest event so far has been ‘Sugar,’ a dessert party—70 people turned up for that. Most of our events are much cozier, though, and small by design.

    Abyss,

    The whole idea for running Dream Kitchen was to get people together in real life, for the kind of creative inspiration impossible to find outside of face-to-face conversation. That said, sometimes we’ll post the highlights of what we hear and learn. See notes about Dream Kitchen at Design Kompany.

  14. Gravatar Icon 14 Games Sep 11th, 2008 at 1:07 am

    This is an interesting concept and great idea. Just having social support or achieving whatever idea you may have can go a long way to keeping yourself motivated!

  15. Gravatar Icon 15 Tom Schavo Sep 16th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    Hey nice idea there. This gives me an idea to pull out my friends this weekend for a similar meet.

  16. Gravatar Icon 16 kitchen Sep 23rd, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Good use of synergy there. Business is a team sport and networking is essential.

  17. Gravatar Icon 17 Kyle Nov 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    This would be an interesting for a self-starter guide..

  18. Gravatar Icon 18 solusiplus Nov 6th, 2008 at 11:35 pm

    Thank’s for your nice idea

  19. Gravatar Icon 19 Naruto Shippuuden Episodes Nov 25th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Business is just like sport, cooperation is definitely essential for things to go well with you.

  20. Gravatar Icon 20 Dipika Nov 28th, 2008 at 6:26 am

    I’m glad everyone commenting here thinks this is a good idea. There are some down sides, though.

    The people organizing always have to be there, even if it’s unclear how many others will turn up. It can be a little tough to get speakers to commit, too, which is why we host series of Dream Kitchen sessions instead of doing this every week. Hosting takes time and energy. Anybody who hosted Thanksgiving yesterday gets what I mean!

    Then again, getting people together is one of our favorite things to do at DK. New energy, new inspiration, new connections… all that leads to what we love to seek: new meaning, new ideas.

  21. Gravatar Icon 21 Delphist Dec 25th, 2008 at 2:06 am

    Very interesting and great idea. Business like a team game

  22. Gravatar Icon 22 poul simpson Dec 26th, 2008 at 5:53 am

    This is something what you can really rely on…! Since long time I look here at regular intervals and read the interesting and well written contributions. Its really appreciating.

    The information you gathered is really true.

    Thats great to great piece of information you shared here through post…

  23. Gravatar Icon 23 FLIR B50 Feb 3rd, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    If there are anymore episodes coming, please post

  24. Gravatar Icon 24 Sam Feb 14th, 2009 at 6:59 am

    well nice idea but not paying is a negative contribution

  25. Gravatar Icon 25 Prepaid Phone Wireless Feb 20th, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    Can you provide more information on this? I was looking for this additional information, just bookmarked to check the updates :)

  26. Gravatar Icon 26 Jen Holly Feb 26th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    Very nice! You’re pretty smart, i’ll be keeping up with this blog in the future.

  27. Gravatar Icon 27 Mike Costoev / Mill Creek Pictures Mar 16th, 2009 at 7:19 am

    this can be a new way of meeting people all over the world. nope i wont be too busy for the next episode. :)

  28. Gravatar Icon 28 Jason May 11th, 2009 at 9:32 am

    I must agree, a great way to meet new people and have new connections. Great idea, I must say!

  29. Gravatar Icon 29 katlamalı perde Jun 16th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    I wish I could be there. been far from turkey phrase

  30. Gravatar Icon 30 Petrol Jul 9th, 2009 at 3:34 am

    have good information on a good site would be useful to people thank you

  31. Gravatar Icon 31 bestkitchen Jul 9th, 2009 at 4:56 am

    This is an interesting idea, but it seems that new media, social networking sites, which changed from front to meet and greet more on-line or in a mixture of cabins. I want to know on average how many people participated dream kitchen Meetings…..

  32. Gravatar Icon 32 Staenz Jul 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    Nice way of working. Casual working is really great where people focus on work rather than pointing fingers and all. All the best you guys.

  33. Gravatar Icon 33 tabldot yemek Jul 24th, 2009 at 5:17 am

    nice article thank you for sharing
    tabldot yemek

  34. Gravatar Icon 34 Tim Aug 13th, 2009 at 10:46 am

    Nice way of working. Creating a casual atmosphere at work place helps everyone to be comfortable but at the dame time professional work related strictness should also be there.

  35. Gravatar Icon 35 lisa Aug 24th, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    This is like democracy. I really appreciate this concept. Every one is free to express opinions in a free atmosphere. Brilliant working. Impressed.

  36. Gravatar Icon 36 dipika Aug 25th, 2009 at 9:48 pm

    @bestkitchen,

    The whole idea for our Dream Kitchen session series was to meet in real life, because we live in Seattle and everybody knows people in Seattle are totally glued to their laptops even in public places like coffee shops at Greenlake and stuff. I was in San Francisco just a week or so ago and this is what people there think of us! Wow. Anyway, I had an inkling that this was sort of weird, so Akira and I thought about Dream Kitchen as a way to invite people to one spot. We actually got the idea in a brainstorming session with a truly talented and bright individual who said you should get a chance to talk about what you do outside of work sometimes. That’s where we started out—lunch, and your big dreams.

  37. Gravatar Icon 37 perde modelleri Nov 12th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    I’m glad everyone commenting here thinks this is a good idea. There are some down sides, though.

  38. Gravatar Icon 38 Ramon Nov 22nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    So what do you actually work on? Like website graphic, commercial graphic, abstract graphic?

    Kind of broad field to join on a simple keyword. D:

  39. Gravatar Icon 39 Perde Modelleri Dec 5th, 2009 at 6:29 am

    I’m glad everyone commenting here thinks this is a good idea. There are some down sides, thoughh

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  41. Gravatar Icon 41 Akupunktur Dec 16th, 2009 at 6:35 am

    - have good information on a good site would be useful to people thank you

  42. Gravatar Icon 42 Mike Fix Feb 16th, 2010 at 3:32 am

    Great blog. Have bookmarked and will be reading through more posts later.

  43. Gravatar Icon 43 flat pack kitchens Apr 27th, 2010 at 5:10 am

    Interesting idea, but may take a while to catch on. Be interested to know how it is going now.

  44. Gravatar Icon 44 akira Apr 27th, 2010 at 11:17 am

    Hey flat pack kitchens, thanks for the comment.

    Well, we have moved and are yet to start Kitchen here in Durham, but the idea of co-working has caught on seriously now.

    I know there are at least half a dozen commercial co-working spaces in Seattle now, and in Durham, there are three that have just opened or starting soon. I think the non-profit approach (e.g., taken by a Durham initiative called Bull City Forward) is catching on, and more loose, Jelly! like co-working events like this Kitchen are happening around the globe. Check out this co-working event list to see if there’s one happening near you.

  45. Gravatar Icon 45 average insurange May 25th, 2010 at 2:39 am

    looks like you have a good company. Great site. Got a lot of insights here. thanks

  46. Gravatar Icon 46 themindmedic Jun 30th, 2010 at 2:12 am

    can you upload your meetings on your website? I mean for those who can’t make it. At least an insight to such meetings can be a good learning experience.

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