THE MAKING OF COWORKING SPACES IN SLOVENIA: SPATIALIZATION BY AND OF YOUTH AS (NOT) TRUSTING THEM

This paper explores the emergence of coworking spaces in Slovenia in the 2010s as a response to economic pressures and youth culture fads and explores the distinction between self-generated and top-down developed coworking spaces. While the former were created by young activists, whose endeavours were rooted in identifying with particular modes of sociality, work, and local belonging, the latter point to a new systemic interest in youth. This interest - alongside other shifts in spatialization by young people and of them - indicates a historical change in social value ascribed to the youth. This value is founded on an ascribed entrepreneurial ability.