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25 Results for Innovation
Design APPS: Issue 63
Innovative Application Ideas Classrooms for active learning Observation How do you make a classroom more engaging for both the student and the instructor? No learning space is more in need of fresh design thinking than the classroom. Everyone…
Tags: Active Learning, Education, Innovation, LearnLab, media:scapeFiled under: 360 Magazine, Design APPS, Featured Articles
A New Learning Curve: Issue 63
Ideas on planning and designing learning spaces from Lennie Scott-Webber, Ph.D., director of education environments for Steelcase Education Solutions About the author, Lennie Scott-Webber, Ph.D. I’ve owned and operated design firms in the U.S. and Canada, taught at…
Tags: Active Learning, Education, Innovation, Steelcase Education SolutionsFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles, Steelcase Education Solutions,
Vodafone (NL): Case Study
Vodafone’s head office in Maastricht, The Netherlands has been transformed according to a concept based on ‘mobile working’. The concept “The Changing Workplace” was developed by Tjeu Verheijen in cooperation with workplace experts OCS Workplaces and Steelcase Netherlands.
Tags: Collaboration, Design, Innovation, Interconnected Workplace
How Steelcase is Rethinking the Workplace: Issue 62
The Steelcase headquarters building opened in 1983, when an office meant bulky computers, high panels, and long rows of lateral files. Digital storage, cell phones, and the mobile workforce were a long way off. The building’s five floors and 360,000…
Tags: Collaboration, InnovationFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Q & A: Daniel Pink: Issue 62
The best selling author on right-brain thinking, great workspaces, and the “grilled cheese option” A former speechwriter for Al Gore, Daniel Pink now cuts an impressive speech-making path of his own: his website lists a practically nonstop schedule…
Tags: Business, Collaboration, Innovation, WorkplaceFiled under: 360 Magazine, Q & A,
Leveraging Complexity: Issue 61
Business today is global, interconnected, and highly complex. Here’s how space can help manage – even leverage – the way work gets done, and make life a bit more sane. How did business get to be so round-the-clock frenetic, complicated,…
Tags: Collaboration, Global, Innovation, Technology, WellbeingFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Looking Ahead: Issue 61
During the past few years, as the mobility of its office workforce increased every day, Steelcase faced the same challenge as many customers: too much real estate. On any given day, there was only about 65% occupancy in the…
Tags: Innovation, WellbeingFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
How the Workplace Fosters Innovation: White Paper
Nearly everyone agrees that innovation is the way to supercharge an organization to growth. The right workspaces can help make it happen. Steelcase WorkSpace Futures Innovation is the “secret sauce” of business success, according to Harvard Business Review….
Tags: Innovation, Workspace Futures
Innovation enters the classroom: Issue 60
Want to see something amazing? Visit a college classroom. You’ll be amazed, perhaps astounded to learn that today’s classrooms look completely – like the ones you sat in five, 10, or even 50 years ago. Despite revolutionary technology,…
Tags: Education, Innovation, media:scape, node chair, SeatingFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
pushing the edges: the d.school: Issue 60
This is far from your typical college classroom building. Walls made from sliding whiteboards are covered in sticky notes and scribbles. Big foam cubes serve as makeshift worksurfaces and footrests. Some students are working in lounge furniture, others are…
Tags: Education, Innovation, TechnologyFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Sustainability Spotlight: Issue 60
When Columbia University decided to expand with a new campus in West Harlem, its leaders realized the project presented new opportunities for significant sustainability efforts. Columbia’s 25-year, 17-acre, 16-building Manhattanville expansion project took an early step forward in…
Tags: Innovation, Sustainability SpotlightFiled under: 360 Magazine, Sustainability Spotlight,
Showing School Pride: Issue 60
With school budgets decreasing and expectations increasing, it’s no surprise that more and more schools are struggling to reach their potential. But a new NBC makeover/reality show is helping to revitalize many of these schools and in some…
Tags: Education, Innovation, media:scape, node chair, TechnologyFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Trends360: Issue 60
Move. See. Hear. Learn. It’s a fact: people learn in different ways and the best classrooms support them all. Steelcase observational research documented these differences: • Motor mechanic learners – prefer being active, sitting in swivel chairs and…
Tags: Education, Innovation, TechnologyFiled under: 360 Magazine, Trends360,
Benching: An Idea Whose Time Has Come… Again: White Paper
The workbench is being reinvented, and it’s not “one-size-fits-all.” Understanding worker needs is key to creating the right bench solution. The workbench is an enduring workplace tradition, for many good reasons. It’s simple, efficient, straightforward and adaptable. From…
Tags: Benching, Innovation, Workspace Futures
Harder Working Spaces: Issue 59
The workplace just got smarter. Is it possible to compress real estate and shrink individual footprints while at the same time helping people to collaborate and create more effectively? Yes. As companies work their way out of the…
Tags: Benching, Business, Collaboration, InnovationFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Q & A: Roger Martin: Issue 59
On innovation, and why companies struggle with it. Roger Martin leads a busy life. He’s dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, a professor at the school, and a successful author. His most…
Tags: Business, Education, InnovationFiled under: 360 Magazine, Q & A,
Trends360: Issue 59
Smart Companies are Investing Again in Their Real Estate Good news on the real estate horizon: Organizations are using their real estate to rebrand, reinvent and reposition themselves, according to a recent study by Jones Lang LaSalle. “It…
Tags: Design, InnovationFiled under: 360 Magazine, Trends360,
Sustainability Spotlight: Issue 59
If a breeder in remote Africa can’t find his goats that have wandered off at night, is it a design problem? David Berger, a 2009 Cooper Union graduate turned social entrepreneur, says it absolutely is. Millions of people…
Tags: Innovation, TechnologyFiled under: 360 Magazine, Sustainability Spotlight,
Smarter Packaging: Issue 58
Eco-smart furniture packaging by Steelcase International: less weight and volume results in lower carbon emissions. New products today often include recycled content, but one thing that’s a given is packaging. All that molded foam, plastic wrap, and corrugated…
Tags: Innovation, Sustainability SpotlightFiled under: 360 Magazine, Featured Articles,
Q & A: Blake Mycoskie: Issue 58
On TOMS Shoes TOMS Shoes is a company with an extraordinary premise: with every pair of TOMS they sell, they also give a pair of new shoes to a child in need in places like Argentina, Ethiopia, and…
Tags: Business, Innovation, Sustainability SpotlightFiled under: 360 Magazine, Q & A,
