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Use These 3 Design Principles To Create Human-Centered Offices Where People Thrive

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Fostering Collaboration Traditional office layouts often lead to departmental silos that can stifle creativity and limit interdisciplinary collaboration. Open-plan lounges and modular layouts, for example, encourage connection, spontaneous conversations and creative problem-solving.

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Considering An Office Renovation? Here’s Why You Should Keep Your Furniture

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Materials used, production energy, and transport emissions all contribute to the carbon footprint of the contract furnishings industry, not to mention hidden environmental impacts like deforestation and pollution. Given this insight, we can cultivate a culture of resourcefulness and creativity while reducing our environmental footprint.

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Is Your Workplace Experience Commute-Worthy?

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Factors such as weather, traffic, parking costs, and the reliability and safety of public transportation influence this decision, as do efficiency, workstyle preferences and personal (after-hours) obligations. They also need to balance the “buzz” and vibrancy that gives a space energy, with acoustic privacy for hybrid meetings.

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Bravestars Offices – Hanoi

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In order to create a dynamic environment that stimulates creativity for the team of artists and game developers, Iplus Architecture collaborated with Bravestars to design a modern, energetic workspace that reflects the strong identity of Bravestars. In this youthful, dynamic, and collaborative environment, flexibility is key.

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Want a creative workplace? Make life difficult and chaotic for yourself

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They had begun deserting public transport and planning for less contact with each other. She asked around 400 people to indicate a gauge the impact of a difficult or traumatic episode in their lives on their creativity and personal growth. This is not to suggest, of course, that adversity is a prerequisite for creativity.

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Niwa Offices – Toulouse

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Beyond this, the creative glasshouse (5) with its zen and colourful atmosophere, invites work in groups and pooled knowledge. Hive ‘Smart’ meeting modules facilitate exchange between colleagues, supporting creativity in the teams and ensuring wellbeing within an enclosed space. They are designed for user privacy and comfort.

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Going In Circles? Good!

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The Carbon Leadership Forum defines embodied carbon as “greenhouse gas emissions arising from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance and disposal of building materials.” Designers can tailor wide-open areas to the tenant’s needs with nothing to impede creative expression. Be creative in redistributing them.