What makes communities thrive - coapp+ sessions with Anouk Braune

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Written By Hardy Seiler

What makes communities thrive? Why do the best conversations still take place in kitchens and around coffee machines? And what can we learn from Disney's legendary playbook on hospitality? Welcome to coapp+ Sessions - our new vodcast about everything that moves us right now.

 
 

Our first guest: Anouk Braune - CEO of Natural Networks and Regional Advisor at MIT REAP. With experience at Innovation Park Zurich and Factory Berlin, she brings deep expertise in community building, innovation ecosystems and placemaking.

Together with Jonas Lindemann, CEO of coapp, she talks about:

  • Why community building = innovation building

  • The influence of Disney's Playbook and Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara

  • Placemaking and the role of places like Hafven

  • The difference between networks and communities

  • Rituals, soft power and why community building requires investment

  • Corporate ecosystems vs. grassroots communities (e.g. Google, Valencias Las Naves)

Recorded at Hafven in Hanover, one of Europe's pioneering community-driven innovation hubs.

The interview is available in German with English subtitles.

 
Hardy Seiler

Hardy is Co-Founder and CXO of coapp - a community platform for the age of hybrid work and the B2B sharing economy. The award-winning designer is responsible for the coapp brand design, the user interface design and user experience.

https://linkedin.com/in/hardy-seiler
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