Week 3
For a long time we’ve been interested in creative organizations and the role that the design of place plays in their success. With the increasing importance of innovation the corporate agenda, nurturing creative thinking has expanded the domains of our interests.
This has, of course, increased the numbers of opportunities to explore concepts for nurturing the volume, pace, and success of creative or innovative endeavors, and test what we’ve done more broadly.
Intersecting with this work has been an interest in the growth and development of organizations and, more specifically, how knowledge is created and developed in the organizational context.
This past week has been a preparation week for an expanding engagement we’ve had with a group of people whose innovative work is expected to generate and grow new organizations of significant scale. This intersection of innovation and knowledge creation is at the center of our work there.
We continue to test the research and theories of Nonaka as the basis for the development of spatial typologies that we believe will perform differentially well both in the daily dynamics of people engaged in creative work and in the development of the organizations where they do this work.
Last week, then, we looked back to our earlier work and reflected on our findings and research. This week will be further development of our toolsets, and then off for several days of observations and workshops.
Experiential scenarios Separate from our direct engagements but, I expect, influential, we are looking forward to meeting Stuart Candy this week. Candy’s work focuses on the creation of experiences that embody compelling and provocative stories about how the world could change. More on that next week.
