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| Link to Article: World's Most Creative Work Environments (Our 3rd book) Designers - Submit your designs. |
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2008-08-26T17:48:21 - The Cool Hunter |
| If you sit at a desk and read TCH, how attune are you to your surroundings? Some of us sit at a desk in our homes – where we are probably the most comfortable – and enjoy the experience of working. Many of us stare at our computer monitors all day from the place we just usually refer to as ‘work.’ I’m at ‘work.’ I don’t want to go to ‘work’ tomorrow. And for some, I love ‘work.’ If you’re wondering, your environment does have a direct impact on everything you do all day long. From the time you sit down with your Monday morning latte, to the moment you make the mad dash to the elevator hopefully not too late Friday afternoon, there are innumerable stimuli affecting every action and reaction you have throughout your workweek. Can you gaze out, or better yet, open a window to let in fresh air? Is your concentration broken each time a nearby coworker turns on the external speaker when he answers the phone? Do you spend most of your day away from your workstation? And if so, are your meeting rooms and common areas inviting and inspiring? Fortunately, designers have been increasingly ingenious when it comes to laying out plans for redesigning office space, but the ones making the decisions at the top deserve praise as well. We’re finding more and more collaborations between designers and organisations that unquestionably result in satisfaction throughout the workforce. Attention has shifted focus – we, as leaders, expect our people sitting in cubes out there to react and produce more, better, faster, cooler. But we also spend all our time and energy ‘evolving our brand,’ and not much changes. Try changing your workspace, and you’ll probably get what you want. Creative environments are the key to creative minds. We, as designers, figured it out – change the cube, evolve the thinking. So we did. We collaborate with interior architects and suddenly the focus is on space – and in its entirety. How can we use space better? What if our space is in a giant pipe – or a series of pipes? How do we create interesting space?Designers have been devoting time to elevators, stairwells, bathrooms, meeting rooms and other social spaces. These previously ignored and undervalued spaces are becoming an integral part of design strategies – and not just to look good, but also to function well. By adding color, neon, digital interiors, irregular shapes and patterns – cool stuff to look at, to touch, to sit in or on – we’ll heighten the senses and draw out creative thinking. Everything has been thought of, and workers are loving it. The more creative the space, the happier and more productive the workforce will be.We know at least some of you have benefited from our previous take on innovative workspaces, (offices)
and we want you to know we're now on the hunt for images of the best
creative offices for our 3rd book - "World's Most Creative Office
Environments.” Email us at
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