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Hacktivate your space ...is about participation, ...is about involvement, ...is about engagement, ...is about ownership and... participation again.
When hacking the employees will interpret the space in order to create places which are beneficial for all the three Ms:
•Me
• My team
• My company
The advantages are evident for both the individual and the organization. Co-design and customization should be part of the hacktivation phenomena and related to working space, time and its forms. They should be related to business and social issues, internal and external to the company, since the boundaries between our professional and personal lives are less and less apparent.
When individuals start to adapt the layout of work settings, change the position of objects and use furniture differently, they start to appropriate space for themselves, becoming part of it; they provide it with a personal touch and it starts to adapt to their communal and personal needs. It becomes a space with personality.
The following tips will help you hacktivate your workplace:
1.) Mobile furniture that adapt to activity
2.) Informal working areas and vertical surfaces to share ideas
3.) Tools to manage the shift form concentration to communication 4.) Accessories supporting personalization of the work environment
1.) Mobile furniture that adapt to activity
Creativity and workshop sessions demand furniture that adapts to the individual and team. Each single user should determine the position and the height of a workstation. As a group individuals should be free to decide to be connected, bringing their desks together.
Even formal meeting spaces should be subject to change when people decide to stand up and change posture.
Finding privacy
Getting together
Informal knowledge sharing