Make space: how to set the stage for creative collaboration

Based on the work at the Stanford University d.school and its Environments Collaborative Initiative, Make Space is a tool that shows how space can be intentionally manipulated to ignite creativity. Appropriate for designers charged with creating new spaces or anyone interested in revamping an existing space, this guide offers novel and non-obvious strategies for changing surroundings specifically to enhance the ways in which teams and individuals communicate, work, play--and innovate.

"If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times. You can browse it for tools to enhance teamwork, configurations to enable activities, insights about communal behaviors, design templates and first person stories. The way we design our spaces can help us or hinder us, inspire new ideas or stifle them, make it easier to work together or set us apart. Discover here how to improve team dynamics by altering your physical environment."--Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smith.

Includes index.

Instructions: Make Space is a tool for using space to shape the culture and habits of a creative community -- Tools: make the useful things that fill up a space: furniture, storage options, materials, etc. -- Situations: quick, repeatable configurations of patterns, usually at the scale of a room -- Design template: a comprehensive breakdown of the elements at play in a space, or the game behind the game -- Space studies: first-person dispatches from the front lines of space design -- Insights: kernels of understanding we've discovered through our "trials and errors."