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This project aims to understand the current state of working modes through analysis of interactions between people, space and technology in 4 types of innovation spaces: Co-working, In-house Innovation Labs, Hackerspace, Design Consultancies.

Two teams in class each studied two types of spaces and shared the learning as a group. As a class, we conducted a co-creation workshop with the client Herman Miller and documented the project into a research report.

Team 1 (coworking/innovation centers): Rodrigo Isasi, Aashika Jain, Priyanka Marawar, Keta Patel, Kunitake Saso
Team 2 (hackerspace/design conultancies): Minji Kim, Paul Sheetz, Stefania Sini, Chia-ling Yu
Client: Herman Miller, Shilpi Kumar
Faculty Advisor: Laura Forlano

Key Role: research, facilitated & conducted interviews, lead team analysis and synthesis, presentation design, co-creation workshop

Approach: conducted immersive, deep ethnographic research with structured interviews. Read upon literary papers, articles and reports to supplement the research findings. Synthesized insights into themes and developed design principles as a class.

ID teams with Herman Miller participants