Announcing Ours: a Richmond-Based Node from garden3d’s Index

Today, Index announces the launch of its newest Node in Richmond, Virginia. Located at 2309 West Main Street the new space is called Ours and will serve as a third space for Richmond creatives and locals of all backgrounds to meet, work and learn. It opens to the public on February 10th, 2025.

Index is creating a network of self-sustaining businesses that foster community, the exchange of ideas, peer-support and ongoing education. It embodies an open-ended structure designed to react to the particular needs of the people who live in the area and could encompass an event space, a cinema, a bathhouse, a hotel, a retreat center, a community garden or a coworking space. To date, Index has nodes in the cities of Manhattan, Bengaluru, Lagori and Amsterdam and the Ishikawa prefecture of Japan. The organization is a part of garden3d, which is a house of worker-owned businesses that adhere to the same core values and offer services spanning brand and tech design as well as environmental consulting.

“We opened a space to serve the needs of our local community of creative people here in New York,” said Elie Andersen, Index Director. “The Nodes network translates the values of our space into an infrastructure that empowers people elsewhere to open spaces that serve their local communities.”

Now, Index is opening its second Node in the United States, in Richmond, Virginia. Located at 2309 West Main Street it is a two story 2,424 square foot facility with capacity for 200 memberships. Called Ours, it will offer coworking, events and community programming. It is the brainchild of Sam Taylor, a Richmond native who attended Virginia Commonwealth University and works remotely at garden3d as a creative strategist. It was designed in collaboration with Acme Architecture, a Virginia firm whose previous work includes notable Richmond locations like the Get Tight Lounge, Great Minds and Mission Lane.

“Ours serves Richmond in two ways. First, it is a home for the community of creative professionals who want a place to work that isn’t a coffee shop or an expensive and corporate coworking space,” said Taylor. “Second, it is a lighthouse for people to do fun things after work as an alcohol-free community center with programming hosted for and by the rich community of makers, doers and artists we have all around us.”

While garden3d provides financial support to help get them off the ground, Index Nodes are run as self-sustaining businesses by the people who open them. The finances of a Node are transparently available and Node members participate in influencing business operations relevant to the company’s direction. Community-run spaces (as opposed to corporate spaces) are crucial for thriving creative communities, but it’s hard work and intimidating for people without this experience to start something. Joining the Nodes network helps people get support financially and logistically through this process.

Memberships for Ours are available in different tiers and can be found here. Ours is launching with programming from organizations like the Museum of Contemporary Art and individuals on subjects like home brewing kombucha, and the open call to submit ideas and the full calendar is located here.

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ABOUT INDEX

Index is a center for peer-led, public programming and the generous exchange of knowledge and ideas. We create spaces for connection in cities across the world by setting up self-sustaining businesses that serve their local communities. We call these spaces Nodes, and they exist currently in the cities of Manhattan, Richmond, Amsterdam, Lagori and Bengaluru and in the Ishikawa prefecture of Japan.

At Index, we invite anyone in the community to teach a course, lead a workshop, or host an event. These have taken on subjects from creative coding, to dream interpretation and from artist talks to pasta making workshops.

We also offer memberships to our 4,000 square-foot co-working space in Chinatown, NYC.

Index is designed, built, and supported by garden3d, a collective of values-aligned worker-owned businesses that spans world-class creative studios Sanctuary Computer and XXIX as well as sustainability consultancy Seaborne.

Learn more at https://www.index-space.org/

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