Kollisionen (Volume 8) (English shop)

Raum für Kreativität und Innovation im Büro

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What is a collision? An unplanned encounter with an effect. And what is creativity? The creation of something new. And what is a creative office? It is an environment in which the new is fostered.

What sounds so simple really is quite simple. There are places in the office where creative work happens. These places are not the desks and meeting rooms, wherever they may be located. Nor are they merely the coffee machines and table-tennis tables of the offices. The creative places are above all the corridors, the lift lobbies, the stairwells, the anterooms. They are the in-between spaces in planned offices in which collisions are possible: chance encounters that stimulate our intuitive system and thereby make the new possible. For the intuitive human system is a decision-making system that enables rapid decisions and is able to deal with risky, unplanned encounters. It needs chance as a creative impulse from outside for something new. For an idea, a step further in thinking, an innovation.

But the places for this must be designed in such a way that they support these encounters. Only then is an office creative. And only then does a chance encounter have an effect. Do such places for collisions exist in offices? Astonishingly, hardly at all.