OPEN PLAN 2.0
In the lead-up to each issue, Frame challenges emerging designers to answer
a topical question with a future-forward concept. Recent studies by Harvard
and the Auckland University of Technology undermine the open-plan office.
Once championed as a facilitator of collaboration among employees, an
unstructured environment has the opposite effect, according to experts who
claim that open-plan workplaces impede interaction and lower productivity.
Resurrecting the cubicle certainly can’t be the answer, so what are the
alternatives? We asked five makers to share their ideas.
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