Co-operative Buildings
Cooperative workplaces and buildings should serve the purpose of cooperation and, at the same time, they also have to be ‘cooperative’ towards their inhabitants and visitors. They should (re)act independently after having identified certain conditions, diagnose problems, provide information, and establish linkage between people. Simply, they should offer ‘help’. Cooperative buildings should have a capacity to adapt to changing situations and provide context-sensitive information, based on knowledge about past and current states or actions and, if available, about plans of the users. This vision not only impacts strongly on future knowledge work environments, but also poses eminent design challenges, as a multiplicity of perspectives need to be integrated.
The lab unit Cooperative Workplaces and Buildings tackles these problems with an interdisciplinary approach: the unit leader is work and organisational psychologist with a strong research background in information and communication technology. The intended projects will integrate architecture, informatics and work place design in order to fullfill the presented vision.
Offers:
Research: studies on the impact of innovative work environments on knowledge workers,
Consulting: reviews, state oft he art reports, feasability studies, creativity methods, meeting
Design: intergrated creation of work places and buildings: furniture, hardware, software, work processes
Unit Leader:
Dipl.-Psych. Torsten HOLMER
+49 351 463-32210
Projects:
None up to now (Unit is founded in February 2016)
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