Collaborative Work Spaces

WORK

WORK CREATIVE

Synthesis We’re not creating something from nothing. Rather, we’re combining existing ideas, patterns and concepts in pursuit of solutions to specific problems. To do this, we leverage existing bodies of knowledge – across industries, institutions, and individuals.

We’re not creating something from nothing. Rather, we’re combining existing ideas, patterns and concepts in pursuit of solutions to specific problems.

To do this, we leverage existing bodies of knowledge – across industries, institutions, and individuals.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4991.html http://www.bnet.com/2403-13056_23-190685.html CONCENTRATION vs COLLABORATION Different phases of the creative process benefit from different environments. Periods of individual focus, as well as periods of team interaction, are both necessary. http://www.flickr.com/photos/musigny/500928433/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yuan2003/130559143/

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4991.html

http://www.bnet.com/2403-13056_23-190685.html

Offices need the sort of social milieu that Jane Jacobs found on the sidewalks of the West Village.” Malcolm Gladwell Designs For Working http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_12_11_a_working.htm “ http://www.flickr.com/photos/8375568@N03/3021942336/

Offices need the sort of social milieu that Jane Jacobs found on the sidewalks of the West Village.”

Malcolm Gladwell

Designs For Working

http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_12_11_a_working.htm

PROXIMITY Thomas Allen of MIT is considered one of the progenitors of modern office design. In a ten-year study of engineers in R&D labs, Allen found that Proximity matters: People interact most with those located close to them; people seated more than seventy-five feet apart rarely interact at all. http://bit.ly/ProximityMatters http://www.flickr.com/photos/davesag/71441707/

Thomas Allen of MIT is considered one of the progenitors of modern office design. In a ten-year study of engineers in R&D labs, Allen found that Proximity matters: People interact most with those located close to them; people seated more than seventy-five feet apart rarely interact at all.

http://bit.ly/ProximityMatters

R E M O T E What if you’re 2000 miles away from the people you’re working with? http://www.flickr.com/photos/veo/235721900

What if you’re 2000 miles away from the people you’re working with?

We are connected by networks of computers, devices, and documents http://www.flickr.com/photos/porternovelli/3212919866/in/set-72157611051629857

We are connected by networks of computers, devices, and documents

But are we truly connected? http://www.flickr.com/photos/porternovelli/3212919866/in/set-72157611051629857

But are we truly connected?

What’s the online equivalent of running into someone in the corridor or break room?

What’s the online equivalent of running into someone in the corridor or break room?

? How can we create opportunities, within our normal work routine, to leave trails of activity, and enable serendipitous connections, which enable knowledge transfer, collaboration, and relationship building?

How can we create opportunities, within our normal work routine, to leave trails of activity, and enable serendipitous connections, which enable knowledge transfer, collaboration, and relationship building?