In our special section on Community Entrepreneurs, we focus on makers, store owners, food enthusiasts, do-gooders, connectors, online communities, renters, lenders and educators who build and strengthen communities while making excellent goods and services. This Open Space Yashar Nijati provides a storefront and economic opportunities to forward-thinking small businesses. Equal parts pop-up shop, matchmaker and publicist, This Open Space is a rotating shop front in Vancouver, BC, that serves as a rolodex for fresh local ideas. Founder Yashar Nijati gives a voice to many small-business owners who can’t afford their own brick-and-mortar stores and provides a venue for eclectic short-term art ventures. More than 70 different projects have taken over the space This story is from Kinfolk Issue Fifteen Buy Now Related Stories Arts & Culture Issue 22 Personality Tests: A Brief History From warfare to psych wards to the workplace, Harriet Fitch Little uncovers our long-standing fascination with personality tests. Arts & Culture Entrepreneur Issue 22 Tips: Brainstorming and Contracts Whether you're brainstorming with colleagues or hammering out a contract, taking everyone's viewpoint into consideration leads to the best outcome. Arts & Culture Issue 22 Pattern & Repetition Science writer Philip Ball speaks on the intertwined relations of our brains and the patterns they perceive. Arts & Culture Issue 22 At Work With: Laurent Martin A little more than a decade ago, Laurent Martin defected from the advertising world and retreated into an artist's life in rural Catalonia. Arts & Culture Issue 22 This Woman’s Work In his latest book, The Kate Inside, photographer Guido Harari presents the audacious spirit and restless creativity of iconic singer Kate Bush. Arts & Culture Issue 22 Hans Ulrich Obrist Kinfolk’s contributing editor Hans Ulrich Obrist has turned curatorial work into a work of art in itself.
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