This document summarizes a presentation on creating collaborative work environments. It discusses how understanding employee needs, mapping collaboration spaces, and co-creating concepts can help design productive workplaces. It also provides case studies of redesigns for a digital agency and the Royal College of Nursing, and an activity where attendees design a collaborative workspace for a given business. The goal is to encourage attendees to think about how workspace design can facilitate collaboration and innovation.
1. “I Wish I Worked There!”
Creating collaborative working environments
presented by Sarah Jones, Sarah Godowski & Kursty Groves | a WIFM event | October 5, 2011
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12. Workplace insights translated into cultural, operational and spatial brief
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13. Why are we here?
• Purpose
• Process
• Payoff
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14. Our thoughts on productive collaboration
“the action of working with someone to produce
or create something”
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15. where do you go to be inspired?
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16. Nature of work is changing Space needs to accommodate
Reference: Dan Pink “A Whole New Mind”
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17. Rise of the ‘flexible’ office but where is the inspiration?
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18. Forces that are shaping the way we work Collaboration of different perspectives
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19. “We shape our buildings - thereafter they shape us”
Winston Churchill
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21. imule fct play coabe
Space to support innovation I Wish I Worked There!
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22. collaborate
Space to share
coabe
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23. Open doors coabe
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24. Create a hub coabe
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27. Case study
Grey Interiors and Blu Halo
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28. Blu Halo
• UK’s largest digital agency
• Located on a farm in
Hampshire
• Relocated to a former airfield
control tower
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29. 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”
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30. Blu Halo
• Goldfish bowl
• Watch and be inspired
• Small and productive
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31. Blu Halo
• Social
• Team interaction
• Fun
• Breakaway
• Ergonomics
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32. Blu Halo
• Soft and quiet
• One-to-one
• Research and material
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33. Blu Halo
• Movement
• Inspire
• Division
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34. Blu Halo
• Gallery for ideas
• Grown-up thinking
• Creative behaviour
• Innovative output
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35. Case study
Bisset Adams and the Royal College of Nursing
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36. 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
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37. The brief
• replan complex listed
building, reskinned in the
1920s
• reduce overall workspace by
20%
• rationalise occupancy rates
• increase revenues from
conference facilities
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38. 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
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39. Royal College of
Nursing
• engagement and mapping
• adjacencies and crossover
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41. 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
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43. GOVERNANCE MEETING ROOMS
INSTITUTE + NURSING
WELCOME
INSTITUTE, NURSING, POLICY +INTERNATIONAL MEMBER SUPPORT MEMBER SUPPORT MEETING ROOMS
Royal College of Nursing Typical floorplate
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57. Co-creation of concepts
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58. Let’s get our hands dirty!
An activity for you...
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59. 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!
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60. Shareback
Your elevator pitch!
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61. Thank you!
Sarah Jones --> sarah.jones@greyinteriors.co.uk
Sarah Godowski --> sarah@bissetadams.co.uk
Kursty Groves --> kursty@creativespaces.biz
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