Flexible spaces and Environments collaboratives

The d-school has come up with an inspiring space for teaching, learning and collaborating.
It is a highly flexible space where you are invited to move walls and furniture all the time, to meet with others on nice sofas but also not too comfortable chairs to invite you to stand up and go and use the boards... also storage towers where you can display your work and get feedback

Creative space at Stanford d.school

Dec 30, 2011

Naomi den Besten

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Space for Design Thinking
One of my favorite approaches to innovation is design thinking, a process that helps you design new solutions based on needs research, idea generation and rapid prototyping. At the d.school at Stanford University they have a space specifically designed for it called the ‘Environments Collaborative’.

It is a highly flexible space that invites you to move walls & furniture around all the time. Not-too-comfortable chairs encourage you to stand up, lots of post-its, markers & white board paint help you capture every idea and the storage towers help you to display your progress to others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSjezj7_6mc

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/146/the-idea-lab.html

http://www.fastcompany.com/1634914/storage-towers-show-innovation-in-all-its-messy-glory-at-stanford-dschool