What’s in a name? Lessons in office design from 18th Century Vienna
What if, you could simply give an area of the office the name ‘conversation space’, and then people would automatically go there to talk to each other? After all a Lounge is where we …well, lounge, and a library is where we go to look at books. I know what you are going to say.…
Is open-plan the collaboration magic bullet? Measuring the effects of office design on how organisations behave.
The need for more collaboration within organisations seems to have become something of a mantra. And the office design industry is busy trying to capitalise on that need, by offering new and exciting ‘flexible’, ‘open’ office layouts that will help to break down entrenched organisational barriers and enable greater knowledge sharing. If you know us…
Discovery without boundaries? The new building for the Francis Crick Institute
We don’t personally know any of the 1250 bio-medical research scientists who will come together in the new Francis Crick Institute later this year, but if they are anything like us, they are people who can’t rest until they can explain how and why things work as they do, based on experiment, data and evidence.…
