Computers and table tennis: so changing our place of work (sometimes) – BBC

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Milan , April 17, 2015 – 11:52

     
     
 

Office hybrid. Functional and attractive, welcoming and technology. Where to engage and relax, walk (to think), compare opinions and plans. From which receive stimuli lost in the network, looking into the eyes of colleagues, looking for the

solitudine, participating in conferences. Exploring and inventing. Suggestions and ideas on the future of work, at the Salone del Mobile. With the large installation by Michele De Lucchi, the poetic “walk” that tells the new balance between the ” I ‘and’ we ‘. And with the news of “Workplace 3.0,” in the halls of the Fiera Rho. Where a conference table can also be used for a game of ping pong. Technology and wood to feel connected and protected. Commands invisible and sinuous shapes. The stand of the session Tecno ‘Vela’ adapts to the body and lose the levers that regulate height and backrest: “Finally – say the company – the office chair does not seem that the dentist.” And the system ‘io.T’ runs with a card, and a sophisticated digital process, the entire community-work: a few simple steps you can charge the phone (by placing it on a table), to reserve a room, adjust lights and temperature. Even at a distance. Work agile and mobile. Deconstructed. With modular systems, storage units to stack and pull getting bookcases, shelves and desk. As with “Cases” by Jean Nouvel for Unifor, wood and rough surfaces to travel, explore, climb. Office living. With comfortable sofas (like “Steeve” by Jean Marie Massaud for Arper) and large tables (the “Cross” always Arper, has been turned into a ping pong table).

“We are experiencing a new phase – explains Marco Predari, president of Assufficio – in which electronics and furniture come together to create happy space where matter being and environmental quality.” Location variable, you sit where it is needed and where it happens. The plan is up and down to work sitting or standing (with the “Notable” by ICF); in the system “Hub” designed by Matteo Ragni for Fantoni, under the desk there is a single drawer that can hold up to the pens, the bag is hung on a hook, for the rest there is a personal locker. Everything is informal and customizable, hierarchies are lost, at least in public. And if you need a little ‘privacy, sound-absorbing panels can be applied almost anywhere. The French Studio Pack offer mobile stations and soundproofed to be placed in airports, railway stations, hotel lobbies. Small colorful shells to work quietly. True Design created the parasol deadening ‘Pincettes “and, with the study and Formenton Parisotto, the comfortable bench’ Millipede ‘. “By spending most of our time in the office – says Massimo Formenton – we have to turn it into a space warm, welcoming. And since we do not detach ever, that we never stop at this point, perhaps, we need to rethink the house. “

April 17, 2015 | 11:52

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