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Workspace 2020 Netherlands

Team

Zilong Li
Miho Saito
Michiel Hennekam
Florian Root

Commissioner: Bell Labs

Description

As the society ages, so does the workforce. In not even a decade time, three generations of people will be at work in offices over the world. Due to this ageing workforce and new regulations being implemented, the workspace has to be changed accordingly. In twenty weeks time we will look into this subject and develop and design a product to provide in the needs of the ageing (and hopefully also younger) workforce. As the team consists of different cultures (Japanese/Chinese/Dutch) it is also interesting to see how the difference in culture effects the outcome of the project but also provides different views on the problem. Besides working closely with Bell Labs, we are in close contact with design studio Fukuoka in Japan where the same project will take place, this allows us to \"Design Across Cultures\". Finally the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre in Londen will be the last partner with which we will stay in contact when doing research and discussing findings and possible designs and solutions.
By florianroot February 20th, 2015

User-Scene: Sketching an Image

In our user-scene we introduce problems that are faced by old(er) workers who aren’t used to the same working conditions than the young(er) workers. We try to visualize this in a short film because this best highlights the current situation and its limitations on the workplace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-695LKd_fmU

Also underneath the storyboards of the user-scene which were later digitalized and some photos to sketch an image of how the process went.

User-Scene – Storyboard Scene #1

User-Scene – Storyboard Scene #2

User-Scene – Storyboard Scene Still

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