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The Business of Face-To-Face Interaction – A Visit to Lloyds of London

Knowledge is a funny thing. A lot of people would agree that a firm’s competitive advantage in today’s business world is based on knowledge generation and transfer. Often the word ‘flow’ is used. But how something abstract like knowledge could flow (like water down a river) or be transferred (like money) isn’t quite as clear. Some scholars…

January 13, 2016 in Culture, People, Space.

Space and Power – An Analysis of Labour’s War Room for the UK General Election

A couple of weeks ago, floor plan and seating arrangements of the 250 people running the General Election campaign for the Labour party were revealed in the Guardian. The article outlined teams and their tasks, where they all sat and how the war room operated on a day-to-day basis. It is a fascinating account of life inside a…

May 1, 2015 in Buildings, Space Syntax.

Five Things You Might Not Know About Offices: 2. Electronic Contact Mirrors Face-To-Face Contact

While last week’s post “The Office Is Not Dead” established that we still need the physicality of a shared workplace in order to create awareness, co-presence, encounter and identity among employees, this week’s second blog post in the series 5 Things You Might Not Know About Offices will focus on patterns of communication. The myth…

February 14, 2014 in Networks, People, Usage.

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