Coworking: Open and Informal Design Classroom Mendes, Fernando a ; Duarte, Carlos b a UNIDCOM, IADE – Crea0ve University – Lisbon, Portugal fernando.mendes@universidadeeuropeia.pt b UNIDCOM, IADE – Crea0ve University – Lisbon, Portugal carlos.duarte@universidadeeuropeia.pt Abstract Educa&on has always been a universal ma5er of discussion for those who teach and also for those who learn. This discussion has now become especially urgent since the advent of new technologies and their implica&ons for educa&on. Design educa&on is no excep&on. It can be said that most of the global discussions on Educa&on establish a common diagnosis: the failure of educa&onal models based on formal learning, pre-programmed and pre-forma5ed approaches, disconnected from prac&ce and from digital technologies. Learning Design has, since its incep&on, a strong prac&cal component, laboratory and experimenta&on. However, the educa&on models presented today doesn’t seem to alter decisively the social and spa&al shape(s) of the classroom. Along with educa&on, work also undergoes profound changes. Its dematerializa&on, through the ubiquity of the Internet and the portability of computers, generates new kinds of professionals and innova&ng workspaces – Coworking spaces. Consequently, coworking spaces start to contaminate all aspects of work, learning or leisure. One can now work at home; in public spaces; at different leisure outdoors; and even at school. This paper focus on how higher educa&on in Design can benefit from a coworking approach towards a new classroom based on the learning processes observed in those spaces. Keywords Coworking, open design, design educa&on, informal learning, classroom This work is licensed under a Crea0ve Commons License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 IADE Doctoral Conference