About us
The Northcliffe Square is a collectively run office space near the corner of Maisonneuve and Northcliffe (Vendome metro) in Montreal, Canada. It serves as a multi-purpose community hub providing members with dedicated work spaces, communal work spaces, a meeting room, a meeting nook, and a basic kitchen area. Non-members can book the space for events outside of work hours.
What is this?
Our collective office model is similar to coworking except more hands-on. Like other coworking spaces our office provides an open concept work environment with cubbies, wireless, power bars, and plenty of empty deskspace. However, our membership rates are very reasonable because members all take part in the management of our space. This makes the Northcliffe square more accessible for less commercially focused people, such as community workers, activists, and socially focused technology workers.
For whom?
Northcliffe Square is an ideal work environment for people who work independently or remotely, but who would like to share a work space with others. Freelancers, contract workers, independant consultants... Our office is definitely best suited for those people disenfranchised by a traditional, formal workplace and for those people who enjoy a small amount of chaos every once in a while.
Current Members of Northcliffe Square
- Montreal Urban Community Sustainment (MUCS)
- Angie Byron
- Sister Cities
- Allison Lickley
- chris galanis is an interdisciplinary artist based out of montreal. he likes going for walks.
- Project 10
- Designs for Learning and Planning: Offers organizational design and strategy for joyfully productive working environments.
- Phil Bergeron-Burns, web and fpga freelancer, creator of zipdiddy, a travel site, and craigdiddy, a craigslist notification service.
Founding of Northcliffe Square
A group of people involved in The MUCS Project, US-El Salvador Sister Cities, The NDG Barter Network and Typeleft Publishing founded the Northcliffe Square in October 2006 and designed and renovated the space as a multi-purpose NDG community hub providing private offices, public computer workstations, a meeting room, a lounge, and a commercially equipped kitchen.
All renovation work was done by the founding members and other NDG residents using old wooden doors and other recycled and reclaimed building materials. The finished project is a draw to other NDG organizations seeking affordable office or event space and the evolution of the collective management of the space provides a valuable model for the design and development of commercial spaces in the future MUCS building.
