Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration

Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian′s Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum: "If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times." James P. Hackett, President and CEO, Steelcase: "By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. make space is an articulate account about the importance of space: how we think about it, build it and thrive in it."

Foreword David Kelley Preface George Kembel The Environments Collaborative 1. Instructions 2. Tools 3. Situations 4. Insights 5. Design Template 6. Space Studies Index

Scott Witthoft ′s professional work as an engineer and a designer has focused on understanding and manipulating interactions among systems. This has covered a spectrum including forensic structural engineering, furniture design, and curriculum design. Scott is an amateur musician with a love of stringed instruments. As a Lecturer at Stanford University, he teaches classes in human–centered design and storytelling and visual communication. Scott has degrees in civil engineering from Washington University in St. Louis (BS, ′99) and The University of Texas at Austin (MS, ′00), and product design from Stanford University (MSE ′08). Scott Doorley ′s work focuses on how physical context and digital media can benefit human experience. His installations with the Dacha Art Collective have been exhibited in the San Jose Museum of Art and the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts San Francisco. Currently he is the Creative Director at the Stanford d.school, where he teaches classes in subjects at the intersection of design and media arts: storytelling and visual communication, improv, and digital media. Scott has degrees in film from the University of California, Los Angeles (BA ′96) and learning, design, and technology from Stanford University (MA ′06).

“If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times. You can browse it for tools to enhance teamwork, configurations to enable activities, insights about communal behaviors, design templates and first person stories. The way we design our spaces can help us or hinder us, inspire new ideas or stifle them, make it easier to work together or set us apart. Discover here how to improve team dynamics by altering your physical environment.” — Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian′s Cooper–Hewitt National Design Museum