Dr. Janet Merkel is a Guest Professor for Urban and Regional Economics at University of Kassel in Kassel Hessen Germany. She is known for her research work about Coworking spaces together with academic papers about cultural production, development of culture in creative industries and cities. She has a background in Urban Sociology.

We are going to be deep-diving on her research including what she has discovered about the coworking industry, the notion of coworking, the value of coworking for freelancers and the industry during Covid.