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Designing Work: A Study Of Collaboration And Concentration In Open-Plan Offices, John Walsh
Designing Work: A Study Of Collaboration And Concentration In Open-Plan Offices, John Walsh
Academic Articles
This article looks at the design of open-plan offices, particularly in relation to the impact of spatial design on different work-modes. It examines the history of the open-plan office, looking at how the open-plan workplace has evolved. It reports the findings of a survey on office design of 150 office workers across multiple industry sectors, job types and age categories. Finally, assuming there will not be a return en masse to the traditional, space hungry, cellular office for most knowledge workers this article considers what have we learned so far, and how spaces can be designed to support different work-modes, …
Km Symposium: Designing Work, Knowledge Cafe Presentation, John Walsh
Km Symposium: Designing Work, Knowledge Cafe Presentation, John Walsh
Conference Papers
This visual presentation looks at the history of office spatial design, particularly in relation to the evolution of the Open Plan office. Starting with the invention of the steel beam which facilitated the creation of large open-plan floorplates in the later part of the 19th Century, the presentation looks at examples of open plan offices up to the present day. In particular this presentation looks at “the cubicle” and the impact of office spatial and furniture design on different work-modes including collaboration and concentration.
Knowledge Management: Collaboration Versus Concentration In Open Plan Workspaces, John Walsh
Knowledge Management: Collaboration Versus Concentration In Open Plan Workspaces, John Walsh
Articles
This paper looks at the design of open-plan offices, particularly in relation to the impact ofspatial design on different work-modes. It briefly examines the history of the open plan office, lookingat how today’s typical open-plan workplace has evolved. It considers how workplaces can besuccessfully designed to facilitate the seemingly conflicting requirements of supporting both collaboration and concentration
On A New Method For Interior Lighting Design, James Duff
On A New Method For Interior Lighting Design, James Duff
Doctoral
In 2009, Christopher Cuttle began to challenge the suitability of the metrics contained within current lighting design standards and guidance. In short, Cuttle proposed a move away from providing an amount of light that relates to the difficulty of a visual task and instead, providing an amount of light that relates to the brightness of a space. This sense of brightness would be estimated by a new lighting metric, Mean Room Surface Exitance. The research presented in this thesis strove to examine, critically evaluate, analyse and investigate the merit of changing indoor lighting standards to include Mean Room Surface Exitance. …
Universal Design Project St. Michael's House 1., Andrea Deac, Jamie Lyons, Jennifer Mcauley, Jennifer Olakitan
Universal Design Project St. Michael's House 1., Andrea Deac, Jamie Lyons, Jennifer Mcauley, Jennifer Olakitan
Students Learning with Communities
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