Questions and Prompts to the Readings
After reading through the 4 articles about current workplace issues and concerns, please use the prompts below to help you summarize your thoughts.
1. Describe spatial choreography? What does it mean and how can it be implemented as we enter the workplace again?
2. Describe the data driven space planning identified in the Metropolis Article. How is this new form of Taylorism driving new office design as noted in Zaha Hadid’s office designs.
3. How will social distancing be implemented in the new office spaces according to HOK?
4. Describe the hands free workplace environment envisioned through AI technologies discuss in the HOK article on AI.
5. Imagine all of the unique and varied ways you could include some of this information into your studio project as you imagine the future of work. Name as many ideas that come to mind.
Article Link:
Covid-19 and the Future of Workplace
https://www.hok.com/news/2020-04/will-social-distancing-make-way-for-workplace-distancing/
AI and the Future of Workplace
https://www.hok.com/news/2020-03/covid-19-and-the-case-for-a-hands-free-workplace/
Managing Movement in Workplace Design
https://frameweb.com/article/how-covid-19-could-impact-workplace-design-managing-movement
Architects, Armed with Data, Are Seeing the Workplace Like Never Before,
https://www.metropolismag.com/architecture/workplace-architecture/workplace-design-data/