A "third place for Harringay" has been a recurring
theme on the site . The most
basic definition of a third place is social surroundings separate from the two usual social environments of home and the workplace: a sort of informal comfortable meeting place.
The SpaceMakers network defines them thus:
alternative third spaces as "facilities which are neither office nor cafe nor workshop, but have elements of all three and more". This includes co-working spaces, hack labs, arts spaces, social centres, community cafes and similar uses of space. (no I don't know what a 'hack lab' is either)
An idea has been floated that an obvious place to develop a third place is in our local library in Quernmore Road.
So the question is, if such a project should ever get off the ground, what would you want to see there? For me, one of the first thing that springs to mind is a place to get a coffee. What would your ideal 'third place' look like?
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