From the machine

to the network

Evolutions in Office Design

Tekes Conference, Helsinki

Jeremy Myerson

Helsinki 1912

Helsinki 2012

An economy

Productivity / efficiency / space utilisation / cost control

A polity

Power / rivalry / hierarchy / decision making

A community

Relationships / belonging / practice / proximity

An ecology

Flows / interdependence / sustainability / population

Source: The New Office, Francis Duffy

Richard Florida

x

Population ageing in Japan

A

Population ageing in the UK

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS

KPB

BBC MEDIA VILLAGE

A framework for knowledge worker settings

how would you describe

your mobility in relation

to the office?

research tool

user interviews

low mobility high mobility

user feedback

Anchor

Typology 1.

Connector

Typology 2.

Gatherer

Typology 3.

Navigator

Typology 4.

Anchor

anchor: resident / hub / cubist / nester

law firm

bio-tech company

managment consultancy

otherwise known as . . .

law partner

partner

R&D manager

anchor

time

Connector

law firm

bio-tech company

management consultancy

otherwise known as . . .

connector: conductor / integrator / hub / link

research manager

researcher

para legal

connector

time

Gatherer

law firm

bio-tech company

management consultancy

Typology 3.

gatherer: returner / networker / marketer

senior consultant

procurement manager

legal marketing

gatherer

time

Navigator

barrister

managment consultancy

otherwise known as . . .

navigator: explorer / visitor / guest

/ maven / consultant / rover / nomad

law firm

bio-tech company Doctor (consultant)

academic

navigator

time

Knowledge worker typologies

Concentration

Choice & Control

Welcome to Work

www.welcomingworkplace.com

Giving a voice to older knowledge workers

Global research

Welcoming Workplace

Spaces to concentrate, collaborate and contemplate

Spaces to concentrate

Uxus Design

Amsterdam

Flow in Composing Music

‘You’re in an ecstatic state to such a point

that you feel as though you almost don’t

exist. I have experienced this time and

again. My hand seems devoid of myself,

and I have nothing to do with what is

happening…(the music) just flows out of

itself’

Csikszentmihalyi, 1975

Description of the Flow Experience

when Writing Poetry

‘You’re right in the work, you lose your sense of

time…you’re completely enraptured, you’re completely caught up in what you’re doing,

there’s no future or past, it’s just an extended

present in which you’re making meaning …’

Poet Mark Strand, 1991

Spaces to collaborate

Momentum

Bosch & Fjord

Nokia House

Linda Morey Smith

Spaces to contemplate

Mexx

Sevil Peach

House A

Ryue Nishizawa

Office in a Small City, 1951: Edward Hopper

Thank You

www.hhc.rca.ac.uk