A 6 hour design jam to come up with ideas for how to create more flexible and collaborative spaces at Shure. This was an example of sometimes high tech solutions not being the right ones.

1. Shure Design Jam:
Collaborative Spaces
Outside Thinking Inside the Box (OTIB)
Jumana Almahmoud, Sybil Boone, Michael Taborn,
Jackie Wolf

2. What is a Collaborative Space?
Flexible
Transitional
Shareable
Integrated
Creative
Collaborative

3. Problems with Current Space
Lighting
Rigidity
One Task Rooms
AV Quality
Availability
BYOC (Bring your own chair)

4. Started throwing stuff up on the
whiteboard
Ideas/Things we liked
Needs/Problems
Brainstorming &
Concept Generation

5. Ideas from
existing
collaborative
spaces

6. - Helping visualize
and share
information
-Connect people and
technology
-Provide adaptability
image courtesy of Knoll
The Sweet Spot:
“Effective Group
Work Process”

7. Short Term Solutions
Pulldown Window shades for “serious”
or larger rooms
Pull across curtains for smaller/more
creative spaces. Good for privacy
http://myturnstone.com/blog/21-inspirational-collaborative-
workspaces/
Use what’s
available.
Use the
glass as a
space to
draw on.

8. Flexible & Transitional Features

9. Creative Concepts
http://www.inewidea.com/2010/05/21/30997.
html
http://myturnstone.com/blog/2
1-inspirational-collaborative-
workspaces/
http://ball-chair.com

10. Mobile Meeting Room Application
Features
● Room and Equipment Scheduling
(and location)
● Privacy settings
● Set Room Configuration (Meeting
Types)
o Lighting
o AV Equipment Set Ups
o Outlet Location
Other Features
● Meeting Facilitation Technology
● Recording Meetings
● Can Collaborate in Pods

11. Shareable Equipment
Shareable
Shareable Space

12. Resources
http://unclutteredwhitespaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/dschool-pummel-horse-590x400.jpg
http://www.edomotics.com/solutions.php?page=conference-room-automation
https://encrypted-
tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR5ukYY2W5jlnBX1mcPdH88n45OWccDl4Sli5we0EjypKr1BN
cqMA
http://www.knoll.com/media/315/283/CollaborativeWorkplace_wp.pdf
http://blogs.hbr.org/2011/11/inventing-the-collaborative-workspace/
http://www.inewidea.com/2010/05/21/30997.html