In 2016 Antony McMullen put that question in Pro Bono. Not long after, over a conversation at the Kelvin Club, his old friend and community development teacher Basil Varghese mentioned he had some office space going.
The dots connected. The idea became a space where smaller, socially minded enterprises and freelancers could come together, aiming in the spirit of Melbourne's eight-hours movement for a life-giving balance between labour, recreation and rest.
888 Co-operative Causeway formed in 2018, with Basil as its first patron. Today it's an affordable, volunteer-run co-working network in the Causeway Building, and a home for events and a podcast on co-operative and social economy ideas.