I know that this group is pretty dead, but maybe we could take over/add to the discussion and maybe generate some interest in our event?

The idea of Future Office Labs is to encourage a collective exploration and discussion of new technologies and practices in the work-place.

It’s a group for early-adopters, change-makers, entrepreneurs and organizational revolutionaries; people who are excited by cutting-edge ideas, fascinated by shiny toys (go on, admit it), but frustrated when they don’t get to use them in their day-jobs.

You don’t need to be a technologist to join F.O.L.; you might be a power-user or a practitioner who can see the potential of doing things differently. In fact, one of the reasons I’m creating this group is to have a space to exchange ideas, for those who are NOT technologists, but who do have interesting thoughts about how it can be used.

via Future Office Labs (London, England) – Meetup.

But in 2032 the “workplace”, or more specifically the local array of immersive spaces we now consider optimised for work, is as valuable as ever – even though many thought it might become a relic of the past.

People used to be willing to pick up and move their entire lives to be nearer to that building and have access to a small physical address within it, in which they were assumed to do all of their work.

But after mobile technologies gave rise to “work anywhere” norms and strategies, which often created great disruptions in employee work-life balance, employees and employers began to mutually embrace the notion that there should be easily-accessible spaces where work is optimised – to both enable work and to promote the enjoyment of it.

Thus, a new generation of workplace was created, allowing workers to immerse themselves in local spaces offering a wide array of highly cocooned or interactive settings to support their needs.

via BBC News – Viewpoint: A note from your future office in 2032.

Corporate Fields – New Office Environments by the AA DRL is a book on student projects by the AA Design Research Lab. The DRL was founded in 1996 and is one of the most recognised MArch programmes today. The book visits 26 design projects that were completed between October 1997 to January 2001. These projects are a combination of various initialisation, specification and organisation that have arrived into a final research result. They are sorted by pedagogical focus and what it has achieved. All projects explore the process and forms working with the way corporate companies work in the organizational and management aspects. There are also essays by various tutors on a range of subjects relating to office design.

via Book Review – Corporate Fields __Week 3 « HildaChak.

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