DesigningCollaborativeWorkspaces
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In this workshop we used modelling workspaces with lego people, clay and cardboard to discuss factors which impede collaboration and support collaboration.
What Impedes Collaboration?
- Interruptions
- Smells (smoke, food)
- Noise (phones, chatter, music)
- Movement (people walking thru)
- Visual (TV or views out of window - helicopter, gymnast, etc)
- Furniture
- Inset desk
- Unadjustable/rigid furniture
- Distance between team members
- slows down questioning
- tea/coffee/toilet food
- Collaboration tools
- No whiteboards
- No wallspace
- Environment
- Heat/cold - no control
- Bright lights (glare or dim)
What supports Collaboration?
- Appropriate proximity of desks - close enough for osmotic communication but not too close.
- Team cocoon/boundary
- minimize interruptions from outside
- amplify communication inside
- ownership of the space
- Flexibility
- furniture that can be reconfigured
- spare desks and space
- movable walls, whiteboards
- Meeting rooms
- several spaces
- big room for planning and smaller breakout rooms
- rooms that you can program in - network connection
- whiteboards
- glass walls?
- Lunch space/cafeteria
- Communal space but not too big - connect with other teams
- Quiet soace
- make private phonecalls (can be small meeting room if available enough)