The Third-Space Economy
Why the most undervalued real estate in any city is the room between home and work — and how creative infrastructure turns cultural energy into economic gravity.
Cities & development
Speaking
Give your audience a new way
to see the room they’re sitting in.
Will's talks turn the creative economy from an abstraction into a working model — told through a decade of building REC Philly from a leaking basement into infrastructure that pays creators millions.
01( Credits )© 2026
Seen onTEDForbes 30 Under 30AfroTechFull credit list arriving with the press kit
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Evenly Distributed
Talent shows up everywhere, on schedule, every generation. Opportunity doesn't. What happens when a city closes that gap on purpose.
Talent & opportunityIndependent Doesn't Mean Alone
The independence movement sold creators a solo myth. The ones who make it build scenes, not just followings — here's the architecture of that.
The creator economyFrom Hobby to Sector
How creative work graduates from passion project to recognized economic sector — and what REC Philly's decade of receipts says about doing it anywhere.
Economic development
Give them the room.
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