Juan Carlos Baumgartner, architect specialized in office design, founder of the spAce firm, who also has experience in futurism and neuroscience, comments that his career has allowed him to go one step beyond the trends that fill the panorama in the Present.
He commented in his interview with Obras Expansión that prior to the Covid, changes in the way organizations worked were very evident and that is why in the first period his group collaborated with the Institute of the Future in Palo Alto, California.
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Together they did co-creation workshops with clients, to decipher what was coming and tools for the next step.
The Covid, in addition to a health crisis, has been an accelerator of trends. There is almost nothing new, everything has already accelerated.
Many things that we see in the hybrid model are an accelerated evolution of something that has already been coming for a decade.
The office should be a social, cultural space that helps people interact.
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For this reason, the vacating of offices is the opportunity to see corporate spaces as a means and not as an end.
Almost a decade ago, images of colorful and playful offices, of large technology companies, went viral on social networks, in contrast to the corporate reality that most people lived in: places with white lights, desks, carpets and plain ceilings.
But beyond the bright colors and the ball pools that could be seen in the portraits, its importance was that it showed a different way to the spaces where people spent most of their lives.
Now we are facing a similar challenge where creativity and adaptability will be the key factors to overcome the present.
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