Cleanroom trade fair LOUNGES: Room planners increasingly recognize sustainable building for themselves
At the LOUNGES cleanroom trade fair, which will be held from January 28 to January 30 in Karlsruhe, Germany, new-work expert Sven Bietau of the architecture and consulting firm CSMM will speak about the transformation of working environments: The classic office has had its day. This also applies to commercial and work spaces in medical technology.
New Work expert Sven Bietau explains at the LOUNGES cleanroom trade show: "The current predominant office form is architecturally designed for a linear and hierarchical way of working. Companies that want to remain competitive in the future, however, need space for empathy, creativity and inventiveness - and not just cells to work in.
In the new decade, a future-oriented working environment must therefore be more than just a copy of or a variation on a necessary room in a chic design. Because "Experience Design" or "User Driven Design" are no longer indispensable in the office world. CSMM-architecture matters therefore advocates the approach of designing future working environments as spaces of possibility.
"The office is dead. Long live the office!"
Under the workshop title "The office is dead. Long live the office!" Sven Bietau draws a bow from the working world 4.0 to the necessary inner change and calls for a rethink with his thesis.
"Possibility spaces primarily pursue the goal of fostering innovation. They create an environment for people to exist as social and innovative beings. Everything is possible in this space, freely according to the principle of serendipity." The expert justifies his vision:
"Innovations that permanently changed our society, such as that of penicillin, could indeed be favored by the creation of framework conditions - that is, experimentation in the laboratory and the composition of certain substances. But what could not be planned was the invention itself. It was serendipity that made the discovery itself possible," explains Bietau, Managing Partner at CSMM.
"He therefore calls for a vehement paradigm shift in the world of work - away from necessity space to possibility space. According to him, such a paradigm shift also serves the measure of building in a truly sustainable way in the future.
Sustainable spatial planning
The possibility space is sustainable because it gives equal consideration to the ecological, social and cultural aspects in addition to the economic ones. According to the organizers of the LOUNGES trade fair, "the subject of sustainable building is still in its infancy in many areas, but it is developing at breakneck speed."
Digitization is turning the prevailing office image upside down. It not only allows work to be carried out independently of time and location, but also networks, accelerates and enables to an unprecedented extent. Bietau: "Nothing influences us as much as the immediate surrounding space. That's why special space must be given to those factors that foster innovation."
Working environments must be rethought in their planning. The office remains a necessary, social meeting place that creates identification. In the future, the office will not be a place where work is done, but a nucleus of innovation.
As the sectors of employment have changed, so have the goals of work. Whereas it once served primarily to survive, then a large part of the professions pursued pure work as a goal as a result of the industrial division of labor - in today's knowledge society, it is mostly about creating innovation in order to remain marketable.
