Collaboration in the workplace

“I Wish I Worked There!”
Creating collaborative working environments

presented by Sarah Jones, Sarah Godowski & Kursty Groves | a WIFM event | October 5, 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Plan


Design


Build


Architecture * Interior Design * Brand Communications


Branded environments: designing to engage with customers


Workplace: new-build; specialist departments; large scale interior ﬁt-out


Copyright Creative Spaces Consultancy 2011


Workplace insights translated into cultural, operational and spatial brief


Why are we here?

• Purpose

• Process

• Payoff


Our thoughts on productive collaboration

“the action of working with someone to produce
or create something”


where do you go to be inspired?


Nature of work is changing Space needs to accommodate
Reference: Dan Pink “A Whole New Mind”


Rise of the ‘ﬂexible’ ofﬁce but where is the inspiration?


Forces that are shaping the way we work Collaboration of different perspectives


“We shape our buildings - thereafter they shape us”

Winston Churchill


imule fct play coabe

Space to support innovation I Wish I Worked There!


collaborate
Space to share

coabe


Open doors coabe


Create a hub coabe


Chance liaisons coabe


Share thinking coabe


Case study
Grey Interiors and Blu Halo


Blu Halo

• UK’s largest digital agency

• Located on a farm in
Hampshire

• Relocated to a former airﬁeld
control tower


Blu Halo
• Workplace at the heart of
their brand culture

• Design to encourage
collaboration and team
interaction

• A “grown-up space” to
compete on global
playing ﬁeld

• Output: “Soho in the
Sticks”


Blu Halo

• Goldﬁsh bowl

• Watch and be inspired

• Small and productive


Blu Halo
• Social

• Team interaction

• Fun

• Breakaway

• Ergonomics


Blu Halo

• Soft and quiet

• One-to-one

• Research and material


Blu Halo
• Movement

• Inspire

• Division


Blu Halo

• Gallery for ideas

• Grown-up thinking

• Creative behaviour

• Innovative output


Case study
Bisset Adams and the Royal College of Nursing


Royal College of
Nursing

• Grade II listed building with
a complicated history!

• a multi-faceted brief to
transform the workspace,
member and public facilities
and services

• an organisation with an
important role to represent
the nursing profession


The brief

• replan complex listed
building, reskinned in the
1920s

• reduce overall workspace by
20%

• rationalise occupancy rates

• increase revenues from
conference facilities


The brief

• create a ﬂexible workspace
with better
interdepartmental
communications

• create working facilities for
visiting staff, a sense of
welcome and identity

• the library as the learning
hub

• support RCN’s role
representing the interests of
nurses and perceptions of


Royal College of
Nursing

• engagement and mapping

• adjacencies and crossover


Identity for each ﬂoor


The concept: the ‘hub’

• create an entrance and
identity for each ﬂoor

• link between ﬂoors and
departments

• the library as the main
learning hub of the building,
for staff, members and the
public


Workplace hub


GOVERNANCE MEETING ROOMS

INSTITUTE + NURSING

WELCOME

INSTITUTE, NURSING, POLICY +INTERNATIONAL MEMBER SUPPORT MEMBER SUPPORT MEETING ROOMS

Royal College of Nursing Typical ﬂoorplate


RCN Library: learning
and communications

Graphic concept: DNA


Royal College of Nursing the Hub concept


Nailing the Needs
How to get beyond spatial requirements through deep workplace
understanding


Holistic approach to to uncovering needs


Quantitative Qualitative
• Building & Facilities data • Face-to-face conversations

• Organisational data • Observational studies
ONLINE SURVEY
• HR ﬁgures • Engagement & people info

• Occupancy & usage studies • Tours & visits

the magic sauce!



Synthesis - the cherry on the top!


Mapping collaboration spaces


Co-creation of concepts


Let’s get our hands dirty!
An activity for you...


Collaboration Activity
• Form a team of 5-6 people

• Find people who share a similar “inspiration space” to you

• Elect someone to open your envelope and read your challenge to the group

• Think of ways to create spaces that will encourage better collaboration in the
given business and space

• Using the plans and materials provided, draw up your new productive
collaborative workspace

• Also consider: the culture, visitors, worker types, individual to communal
balance, what the workspace communicates

• You have 10 minutes - have fun!

Shareback
Your elevator pitch!


Thank you!
Sarah Jones --> sarah.jones@greyinteriors.co.uk

Sarah Godowski --> sarah@bissetadams.co.uk

Kursty Groves --> kursty@creativespaces.biz


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