BEST WORKPLACE AWARD - Key Persons
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- Expert
- FRAME Editor
- Trend Expert
Trend expert Birgit Gebhardt and FRAME editor Robert Thiemann explain their take on the organisation of work and future workplace dispersion.
David Basulto, Founder and Editor in Chief of the most visited architecture website worldwide ArchDaily, provides interesting insights on how the architecture and design industry is changing on the verge of a rapid digitalisation and integration, reshaping the role of architects and designers. In this exciting presentation, Basulto explains how these processes are related to digitalisation and sustainability, and much more.
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- Creative Director for Imm Cologne
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- Director IDR, Explains, What Companies Can Do for the Well - Being of Their Employees
- Director of Identity Realization Ltd
Craig Knight, Director IDR, explains, what companies can do for the well-being of their employees.
Dr Craig Knight, Director of Identity Realization Ltd (IDR), answered our questions at ORGATEC 2022 in Cologne. He explained, which strategies companies can use to contribute to the well-being of their employees, and how they can achieve stronger employee loyalty almost as a side effect.
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- Scientific Director at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
Eveline van Leeuwen, Scientific Director at the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS), is an expert in urban economics and turns the spotlight on urban agriculture and urban food space by explaining, what the rise of urban agriculture means for the way cities will be planned and experienced in the future. She outlines practical behavioral and procedural changes such as waste avoidance, sustainable production and dietary changes, that each of us can gradually implement into our daily lives.
Gideon van der Burg, Managing Director Benelux at Leesman, and Julie Deignan, director of CBRE's Furniture Advisory service, discuss the long-term effects of the pandemic on the workplace revealed by study and survey results which the two speakers present in this session. According to van der Burg, the focus is on the question of where, when and how work will be done in the future and whether the rapid response with home office solutions will become more established in the future or whether hybrid models will be more common. Data from the surveys can help address these early changes in collaboration, flexibility, scheduling and combining the old and new, Deignan says.
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- Director of CBRE 's Furniture Advisory
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- Senior Design Director at Philips Healthcare
Kurt Ward, Senior Design Director at Philips Healthcare, comes up with exciting insights into tomorrow's healthcare system and how the sector is already working on various solutions to provide better care to more people and make processes more efficient. He provides us with not only a range of interesting facts about the impact of harmful substances on our wellbeing, but also latest innovations to save and use spaces.
Marco Huber, SVP Workplace Strategy DACH & CEE, Jones Lang Lasalle Work Dynamics, talks about "The purpuseful office" and how real estate can work for employees again. Programme partner: FRAME. [English]
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- Principal and Design Director at Perkins & Will
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- Architect
- Interior Designer
Architect and interior designer Oliver Heath explains the value of biophilic design for creating human-centred workspaces.
Architect and Interior Designer Oliver Heath explains the value of biophilic design to create human-centric workspaces. Heath presents findings to illustrate the impact of natural environments on people and names practical examples of how physical and mental state of the employees, as well as creativity and community can be fostered. He is confident that also from an economical perspective, biophilic design offers real added value, which companies around the globe will increasingly appreciate in modern working environments.
Patrick Frick is Lead Facilitator at Global Commons Alliance, which brings together the world's major environmental organisations. At the first The Next Space event on 21 October 2021 in Eindhoven, Frick explains the unpopular, but therefore important, scientific findings on the dramatic impact of humans on the Earth and our global commons, that keep our world resilient.
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- Managing Director
- Principal
- Managing Director of Gensler Paris
Philippe Paré, Principal and Managing Director of architectural, design and planning agency Gensler Paris, talks about antidotes to anxiety, purveyors of purpose and their importance. Programme partner: FRAME. [English]
Pieter Kool, founder of Carbon Studio, decided already 12 years ago to bring a dream into reality together with a group of people - a floating neighborhood in the middle of Amsterdam. This impressive project not only took time and effort, but also required a set of interpersonal rules that make the community work well together. An extraordinary story with ups and downs that inspires listeners to do the same.
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- Chairman of Design at the Royal College of Art
- Design Expert
- Director of WORKTECH Academy
Design expert Prof. Jeremy Myerson talks about the role of workplace design in fostering innovation in the future.
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- General Manager
- Press Officer, Responsible for the Content of This Website
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- Founder and Director at FRAME
- Founder and Director of FRAME, Opened the Third Edition of "the Next Space". This Time the Event Was Entitled "the Empathetic Workplace". Programme Partner
- FRAME Editor
- Frame Founder
- Trend Expert
On 26.10.2022 Robert Thiemann opened the third edition of "The Next Space". This time the event was entitled "The Empathetic Workplace". In his manifesto for the future, Robert Thiemann defined five key points for the design of spaces.
Robert Thiemann, Founder and Director at FRAME, and Dick Spierenburg, Creative Director for imm Cologne and ORGATEC, talk about the growing trend of working from home and the new opportunities it is unleashing. Spierenburg sees great potential and a growing market for multifunctional and flexible work furniture as well as undefined areas within a living space that can be used for anything including work. He gives furniture manufacturers the tip to merge home furniture and work furniture and to offer their customers particularly smart solutions and flexible furniture innovations.
Rosie Haslem, Director at Spacelab, and Simon Allford, Director at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, would like to see employees given more participation in design issues and also to allow the environment to have a greater influence on companies and their workplace. Haslem states, that one challenge here is the new freedom to work from anywhere, making work life more holistic while allowing the necessary freedom outside the workplace. Allford believes that it takes both looking to the past but also to the future to reshape the environment without always destroying the old.
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- Director at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
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- Employees
- Head of Workplace Innovation & Design
On 26 October 2022, Sonya Simmonds, Head of Workplace Innovation & Design at Spotify, talked about why employees will lead the next phase of workplace design. Using Spotify as an example, she explained how the development and control of workplace concepts can work and why co-creation therefore plays such a big role.
Sonya Simmonds, Head of Workplace Innovation & Design at Spotify, explains why employees will lead the next phase of workplace design and how this can be managed. Programme partner: FRAME. [English]
Thorben Østergaard and Itai Palti reflect on how smart buildings could be conscious of the needs of their occupants in the future. Østergaard talks about the new Berlin Cube project as a pioneer in building-human interaction and sees the benefits of a building that can learn from its users. Palti believes in a shift from performance-driven design to an "architecture of motivation", where people will create spaces that are more focused on cognitive processes such as creativity, collaboration and social engagement.