The Comfort Zone

Was lucky enough to catch a great piece on The Comfort Zone, ABC radio on Sat morning recently, with a great mix of panellists, including David Week, who site visitors to Laughing Mind will see referenced in my links to Assai and The Ark workplace, Rosemary Kirkby, who heads NAB's docklands project and has driven some wonderful workspace revitalisation in corporate Australia. Other panellists included reps from DEGW and one of my favourite furniture designers, Haworth. Whilst Haworth don't have a large presence in Australia, they have demonstrated some terrific thought leadership in examining better ways of designing furniture to accomodate the facilities management needs of todays workplace, and offer some great white papers at their website. One of the few design firms who offer highly mobile and easily reconfigurable furnishings (aside from Hermann Miller, another US firm, but costly here in Australia).

Well worth taking the time to visit the ABC site and read the transcript of the discussion for those who missed it. Let's hope that it leads to some more serious thought about the work needing to be done in addressing the imbalances of life in the "cube farms".