Building Blocks of the future Workplace - A conversation with Sudhir Saseedharan, The LEGO Group

Building Blocks of the future Workplace
As part of our ongoing explorations into the fields of Work, Innovation, Space, and Education, we have a series of talks with the foremost thinkers of today and their thoughts of futures to come.
Sudhir Saseedharan, Global Design Lead, LEGO Workplace Experience, talks about how the LEGO Group employs user-centered design to generate attractive and stimulating workspaces.
Complete talks and full series will be featured in the upcoming and interactive publication - WISE.
CEBRA launches a new research program promoting architecture for lifelong learning
Information is all around us - it is in our pocket, on our table and surely it resides in the spaces and environments we spend our everyday life in. We process information through learning and acquire knowledge that becomes useful insights that lead to innovation - and ultimately wise choices. But how does this process affect the way we think and design the built environment? And how does the rapid change in activities related to how we learn and innovate impact the use of space in architecture?
CEBRA has initiated an ambitious R&D program - WISE. We address these issues and discuss the role of architecture in lifelong learning. The purpose of WISE is to bridge the ongoing and rapid change in the sectors of workspace and education to inform the design of buildings that stimulate learning and innovation. Moreover, WISE connects the ideas of the foremost thinkers of education and entrepreneurship, research and studies in sensory stimuli, cognitive psychology, and behaviorism with architecture.
A WISE architecture
Architectural means and qualities affect our senses to such a degree that they have a great impact on our behavior. If senses were to define architecture learning and work environments would be characterized by a large variety of scales, materials, textures, odors, light, colors and acoustic properties.
“The goal of WISE is to gain a direct understanding of how our senses are affected by the qualities of architecture - and to use this knowledge to enhance our ability to learn and innovate”, clarifies Carsten Primdahl and continues: “With WISE, we will be even better at designing architecture that takes into account the complete sensory apparatus”.

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