Can Workplace Design really enhance Innovation and Creativity?

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Can workplace design really enhanceInnovation & Creativity?

Nigel Oseland PhD CPsychol@oseland

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Innovation (creative) economy70

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Secondary(Manufacturing)

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Based on Clark (1940) Conditions of Economic Progress

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Creativity papers

Frontal Lobes Mind-wandering Functional Fixedness

Divergent Thinking Executive Brain Insight

Workplace

Business

Neuroscience

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Creative workplaces?

Google

Red Bull

Yahoo

GoDaddy

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Creative workplaces?The garage is my kind of playground. When you come in you can write on the tables, you can write on the walls and then you can reconfigure the tables to be in any position you want. Everything is on wheels and that allows people to be flexible and be more playful in a way that a typical space and typical conference room just wouldn’t.

Nadya Direkova, Google

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Creative workplaces?

garage

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Creative workplaces?

“bored” room

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Creative workplaces?

Where are you most creative?

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Creative workplaces?

“72% of people get their best ideas in the shower“ Kaufman (2014)

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Meeting areas for idea generation

937 respondents, Oseland (2012) Personality & Preferences for Interaction

Breakout33%

MeetingRoom26%

InformalMeeting

45%

Office7%

Cafe16%

Brainstorm/War Room

40%Bar6%

Conf3%

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Preferred places for creativity

937 respondents, Oseland (2012) Personality & Preferences for Interaction

Home53%

Desk26%Meeting

Room

9%

InformalMeeting

30%

Café13%

Garden26%

Office11%

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Preferred places for concentration

937 respondents, Oseland (2012) Personality & Preferences for Interaction

Home63%

Desk40%

MeetingRoom

13%

InformalMeeting

6%

Café5%

Garden2%

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Creative/Openness preferences

CreativeCuri

ous

Artistic

Imag

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ive

Broad-mindedEmotional

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Innovation cycle

Activity between two or more people

Organised facts and data

Passing on of information

Mental process of generating new ideas

Initial idea for new product or process

Successfully implement idea to change in thinking, product or process

Expertise acquired by experience and familiarity with information

Working together towards a common goal

Oseland et al (2011) Environments for successful interaction

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Divergent thinking test

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Unexpected experiences

Simone Ritter (2013) Horizon: The Creative Brain How Insight Works

Creativity15%

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Auto-mode

Jonathan Schooler (2013) Horizon: The Creative Brain How Insight Works

1. Do nothing – rest

2. Non-demanding – sort bricks

3. Demanding – build house

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Brain blinking

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Daydreaming or thinking?

ChristofF et al (2009) Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 106(21)

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Biophilic design

Creativity 15% Cooper (2015) Biophilic Design in the Workplace. Human Spaces.

ATTENTION RESTORATION THEORY“non-taxing involuntary attention”

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Nature benefits

Atchly, Strayer & Atchly (2012) Creativity in the wild: Improving creative reasoning through immersion in natural settings

Creativity 50%

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Enriched design

Knight (2017) Personal comms, to be published by Knight & Tsivrikos

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F(3,177)=14.88, p<0.1, η2=0.21

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Remember concentration

Creativity Collaboration Concentration0

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9,450 responses

and contemplation

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Summary

Creativity

Collaboration

Contemplation

Concentration

INNOVATION

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Thank YouNigel Oseland PhD CPsychol

@oseland oseland@workplaceunlimited.com

www.workplaceunlimited.com

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