Your Offic e is Where You Are

Your Offic e is Where You Are

March-April 1985 Your Office is Where You Are Philip J Stone & Robert Luchetti In view of more participative cultures an use of electronic equipment, current offi may make it harder to get work done

The office as ACTIVITY SETTINGS Assumptions and influences? What is the theory behind it? How and why is the concept often not used e Question the office of the future paradig Offer a critical appraisal of what we do now and my predictions for the future of the workplace and it s impact on architecture and urban design

1984 Motorola DynaTAC First commercially available cell phone Apple Macintosh First MAC IBM PC First PC Sony Discman D50 First portable CD pla

1984 The tensions between open office (access, inclusion, participation) and closed office (privacy, isolation) are only resolvable by a new approach that is computer based with networked coordination

The office as ACTIVITY SETTINGS One size/one space does not fit all we need t and use multiple dedicated or shared, individua closed settings over time

1 8 Premise ACTIVITY SETTINGS Physical setting is important The all purpose workstation cannot do it all New tools offer choices for managing space/ti Teamwork the group as the planning unit Multi-setting environments are valuable and v

Philip Stone Harvard University Professor of Psychology and Social Relations Computer whiz, a tireless teacher, a renaissance man Pioneer in artificial intelligence - invented the General Inquirer Experienced in environment/ behavior research 1 8

Theory: Behavior Settings Six Principles: 1.Program Oskaloosa, Kansas Roger Barker Founder of Environment Behavior Research 2.Location 3.Time 4.Participants 5.Authority 6.Boundaries

Robert Luchetti Architect & industrial designer Work and learning environments Systems : microarchitecture & furniture Application of environment/behavior research to design Field theory, mat-building, high density low rise environments Radical urbanism

1985 New Office Furniture: A BEHAVIOR SETTINGS APPROACH 1995

The Changing Nature of Work

Assumptions Support the ad-hoc team as well as the indi IT means more than wires Portable & individual connectivity Position no longer means place Everyone gets a home base A democratic atmosphere of trust & shared r

Claims Enabling - value individual initiative and Serendipitous - derive payoffs from unplann Appealing - attract and retain employees Empowering access to multiple settings ba Communal - group/team/neighborhood planning Adaptable - reassign people to different te Efficient - reduce cost of turnover, reconf downtime

Keeping in Touch

Home Base

Distributed Work Cell Phones Smartphones Headphones CSCW

1995

The office now 2015

The Office of the Future? 1960 2015

The Office of the Future? 2015 1963 Burolandschaft

Office Buildings HYPER DENSITY

Office Buildings

Office Buildings SHELL 50-75 years SERVICES 15-20 years FIT OUT 5-10 years FURNITURE day to day

Office Buildings Fit Out is UNSUSTAINABLE

Radical Urbanism Activity settings in t Radical: based in root-level processes Urbanism: the dense arrangement of mixed uses (residences, retail, services, etc.) Radical Urbanism: densely built pedestrian environments in which mixed uses are created through rootlevel processes Public, dense, horizontal, pedestrian

Radical Urbanism Work and the City 2015 Interconnected spaces used in more dynamic ways over time Closer adjacencies of buildings of different scales Public or semi-public places provided for working collectively Multi-functional buildings Planned juxtaposition of complementary and mutually supportive uses Diverse and attractive interstitial spaces Permeable buildings and places that support many kind of serendipitous

Radical Urbanism Constant s NEW BABYLON

Radical Urbanism Yona Friedman VILLE SPATIALE 19

Radical Urbanism Archigram PLUG IN CITY 19

Radical Urbanism Shadrach Woods Manhattan 1970 SoHo

Radical Urbanism Shadrach Woods SoHo 1970

Radical Urbanism Take Back Public Space 2015 An Impression of a Multi-Level Transit City by W.H. Corbett, 1913 drawing City of the Future Interconnected spaces used more dynamic ways over Closer adjacencies of build of different scales Multi-functional buildings Planned juxtaposition of complementary and mutual supportive uses Diverse attractive intersti spaces Permeable buildings & place support many kind of serendipitous interactions Public or semi-public place