We’re thinking about how we can transform places in the cityscape into places for work, and how experience design can help us improve the ability to be productive from anywhere.īecause we can no longer feel the vibrant culture made possible by being in the office with colleagues, it’s important to reimagine the old office perks in a new context.
The accessibility of wifi, along with these tools, allows us to bring our work anywhere. How can they support project management, continued collaboration, and effortless communication? In many cases, we’ve brought physical whiteboards, calendars, and inspiration boards to the cloud.
In addition to incorporating new hardware and accessories, we’re examining the software tools we use and improving our relationship with them. As with many of our clients who are six months into working from home, we’re optimizing our set-up with the right accouterments, while looking to next-gen hardware - augmented and virtual realities - that can take remote collaboration to the next level. Working from home requires a structured set-up with the appropriate tech hardware and accessories. Where can we gather in person with our team to work and socialize? For now, we see small groups meeting in parks, obeying requirements around masks and social distancing.Ĭan you imagine working in an office that made architecture history? Read about The Johnson Wax Headquarters in Racine (USA) by Frank Lloyd Wright. While working on our own can be an effective way to eliminate distraction, it’s inherently less connected and can feel alienating. So, for this Workspace Week, we developed several hypotheses that probe the question: how do we meaningfully support a distributed workforce? The future of the office isn’t so much a question of space as it is of people. So we ask, how can workplace design craft a better life for people, who happen to be working?
We’ve designed for these use cases - with adventurous clients - for some time now, but in a climate of increased remote work, these fringe cases are starting to take center stage.Īnd because the pandemic has emotional and psychological effects on us all, and because quarantine has collapsed boundaries between our personal and professional lives, we believe it’s imperative that we design for the whole person. It’s the café, the park, the library, the home office, all working in concert with a central HQ. The workplace, like the workforce, is everywhere.
But we also take a broader view, viewing the office as just one place in a series of spaces in which we will do our best work. No digital experience will be able to fully replicate that.
Longer-term, we see the value of the workplace as its ability to bring us together, to connect us with each other and a shared culture and mission. Moreover, we see this system being distributed, shapeshifting in the near and long term as new needs arise and evolve.
At Rapt Studio, we believe that the workplace of the future is an ecosystem of spatial and virtual tools that support the creativity, productivity, and wellbeing of the workforce.