Bridging individual and collective comfort in a shared office space

Bridging individual and collective comfort in a shared office space

Savvaki, K.

Jaskiewicz, T.J. (mentor)
Keyson, D.V. (mentor)

Industrial Design Engineering

Industrial Design

Master of Science Design for Interaction

2015-08-27

In this project an iterative approach was followed. Starting from a shapeless design through three different stages, the final proposal was formulated. The first iteration was aiming to make employees of a shared office aware of alternative ways to fight discomfort in the workplace.This proposal initiated the design process and it was kept open for enabling exploration of different opportunities. On the second Iteration a more experiential approach was adopted. Through several participatory design activities the emphasis of the iteration was led into finding ways to increase employee's care over their office performance, by opening an open dialogue between the employees and their working environments. This dialogue was further examined in iteration 3 , this time though the dialogue was shifted to colleagues that work together in a shared office. The focus of iteration 3 was he creation of a communication platform amongst the colleagues, After each design , a testing was conducted to evaluate the proposal, During this process, new knowledge was gained and the design goal was shifted. The final proposal reflects all the main findings from the previous iterations to recognise , communicate to collaborate and to act , in order to find their comfort in the workplace.

comfort management
office
indoor enviromental quality

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Student theses

master thesis

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