Collaborative office layout, co-creation workshops, design thinking: we hear more and more about these concepts in business. Their goal ? Co-construct workspaces that meet the expectations of employees.
Klap, a Design Thinking agency, recently organized a participatory workshop for the company Schneider Electric, with the aim of imagining the 1,500 m2 reception hall of the group’s new headquarters, called “Innovation Factory” and located in Grenoble… .
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Collaborative office layout, co-creation workshops, design thinking: we hear more and more about these concepts in business. Their goal ? Co-construct workspaces that meet the expectations of employees.
Klap, a Design Thinking agency, recently organized a participatory workshop for the company Schneider Electric, with the aim of imagining the 1,500 m2 reception hall of the group’s new headquarters, called “Innovation Factory” and located in Grenoble.
Design thinking, an innovative process for transforming ideas and projects into real actions and tangible prototypes, was chosen to carry out this project.
In two one-day sessions, with 20 participants each time, the Schneider Electric teams went through all the phases of this methodology:
- Immersion: the workshop participants research together the needs of the users of this place.
- Ideation: they then try to find as many ideas as possible individually and in groups for the design of this place: types of sub-spaces, possible atmospheres, important functions of the reception hall, etc …
- Decision: the teams meet to choose an idea in order to achieve a common vision of space with the definition of several subspaces to be prototyped.
- Prototype: employees make several models of the space’s sub-spaces with the help of Lego bricks
- Test: an interior designer models the Lego models in 3D visuals, then the workshop participants show them to other collaborators to collect opinions
At the end of these two days of workshops, a clear brief reflecting the needs of the collaborators was produced for the interior design agency which was to take up the file. This project made it possible to better understand user expectations and save architects precious time for modeling the place.
Discover the workshop in pictures.
Photo credits: Agence Klap