Creating the Productive Workplace: Places to Work Creatively

The built environment affects our physical, mental and social wellbeing. Here renowned professionals from practice and academia explore the evidence from basic research as well as case studies to test this belief. They show that many elements in the built environment contribute to establishing a milieu which helps people to be healthier and have the energy to concentrate whilst being free to be creative. The health and wellbeing agenda pervades society in many different ways but we spend much of our lives in buildings so they have an important role to play within this total picture. This demands us to embrace change and think beyond the conventional wisdom whilst retaining our respect for it. This book shows how we need to balance the needs of people, the ever increasing enabling technologies but also to take advantage of the healing powers of Nature and let them be part of environmental design.