Intention of Use & Community Principles
This space exists to support shared learning, collective creativity, mutual aid, and access to tools, skills, and resources that are too often locked behind money, specialization, or exclusion.
We believe that communities are stronger when people can build, repair, teach, experiment, and create together.
This is a shared workspace, tool library, gathering space, and commons. It is not simply a venue for consumption or private profit. We aim to cultivate a culture of participation, care, curiosity, and voluntary cooperation.
What We Value
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We believe tools, knowledge, and infrastructure should be accessible and collectively stewarded whenever possible. We encourage sharing skills, teaching one another, repairing instead of discarding, and reducing barriers to participation.
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This space is guided by cooperation rather than coercion. We value horizontal collaboration, self-organization, and meaningful work rooted in consent, autonomy, and reciprocity rather than hierarchy or extraction.
People are encouraged to contribute in the ways they can: through labor, teaching, organizing, maintenance, care work, financial support, or skill-sharing.
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We aim to keep participation affordable and accessible. No one should be excluded from learning, making, or participating solely because of income.
We encourage sliding scale models, free community programming when possible, and creative approaches that increase access for working-class people, young people, and marginalized communities.
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We support workshops, classes, study groups, community working groups, art-making, repair culture, and collaborative learning.
Teachers, organizers, and facilitators using the space are encouraged to prioritize accessibility, participation, and the free exchange of knowledge over gatekeeping or credentialism.
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This space is grounded in nonviolence, consent, and mutual respect.
Harassment, intimidation, threats, or abusive behavior will not be tolerated.
We maintain zero tolerance for racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or other forms of hate speech or discrimination.
People who undermine the safety or dignity of others may be asked to leave and lose access to the space.
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A shared space only works when people care for it together.
Users of the space are expected to:
Clean up after themselves
Respect shared tools and materials
Repair or report damaged equipment
Help maintain a welcoming environment
Leave the space as usable as they found it
Advisory Committee
Our work cannot be successful without the support and generosity of collaborators.
We are building out an Advisory Committee made up of skilled professionals who donate their time, expertise, and connections to help our community succeed. If you would like to lend your expertise (in nonprofit law, strategic planning, creative, public relations, etc.) to further our vision please email connect@65fixway.org to get more information about our Advisory Committee.