Make Space

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How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration

By Scott Doorley and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University and Scott Witthoft

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Make Space is an inspiring guidebook from the Stanford d.school that reveals how to intentionally shape physical environments to boost creativity and collaboration. It offers practical tools for building furniture and space treatments, thoughtful layouts designed to spark innovation, and insightful lessons from real-world space-making experiences. Whether designing new spaces or revitalising existing ones, readers gain a clear framework to foster teamwork and imaginative thinking in schools, companies, or creative studios.
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Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This book is ideal for designers, educators, team leaders, and innovation managers seeking to enhance creative environments that encourage communication, play, and collaboration. It suits readers interested in practical strategies to transform physical spaces and drive collective innovation in diverse institutional, corporate, or educational settings.

"If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times.

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"If you are determined to encourage creativity and provide a collaborative environment that will bring out the best in people, you will want this book by your side at all times."
—Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

"Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it."
—James P. Hackett, President and CEO, Steelcase

An inspiring guidebook filled with ways to alter space to fuel creative work and foster collaboration.

Based on the work at the Stanford University d.school and its Environments Collaborative Initiative, Make Space is a tool that shows how space can be intentionally manipulated to ignite creativity. Appropriate for designers charged with creating new spaces or anyone interested in revamping an existing space, this guide offers novel and non-obvious strategies for changing surroundings specifically to enhance the ways in which teams and individuals communicate, work, play—and innovate.

Inside are:

Tools—tips on how to build everything from furniture to wall treatments, and rigging
Situations—scenarios and layouts for sparking creative activities
Insights—bite-sized lessons designed to shortcut your learning curve
Space Studies—candid stories with lessons on creating spaces for making, learning, imagining, and connecting
Design Template—a framework for understanding, planning, and building collaborative environments

Make Space is a new and dynamic resource for activating creativity, communication, and innovation across institutions, corporations, teams, and schools alike. Filled with tips and instructions that can be approached from a wide variety of angles, Make Space is a ready resource for empowering anyone to take control of an environment.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Bill Moggridge, Director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, praises Make Space as an essential companion for anyone aiming to cultivate creativity and effective collaboration through environmental design. He highlights the book's comprehensive coverage of tools, configurations, behavioural insights, design templates, and vivid first-person stories that demonstrate how thoughtfully crafted spaces can profoundly influence team dynamics and idea generation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118143728

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 January 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Contributors:

Foreword by David Kelley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 206.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 522g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University Non-Fiction Scott Doorley Scott Witthoft

About the Author

Scott Witthoft 's professional work as an engineer and a designer has focused on understanding and manipulating interactions among systems. This has covered a spectrum including forensic structural engineering, furniture design, and curriculum design. Scott is an amateur musician with a love of stringed instruments. As a Lecturer at Stanford University, he teaches classes in human-centered design and storytelling and visual communication. Scott has degrees in civil engineering from Washington University in St. Louis (BS, '99) and The University of Texas at Austin (MS, '00), and product design from Stanford University (MSE '08). Scott Doorley 's work focuses on how physical context and digital media can benefit human experience. His installations with the Dacha Art Collective have been exhibited in the San Jose Museum of Art and the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts San Francisco. Currently he is the Creative Director at the Stanford d.school, where he teaches classes in subjects at the intersection of design and media arts: storytelling and visual communication, improv, and digital media. Scott has degrees in film from the University of California, Los Angeles (BA '96) and learning, design, and technology from Stanford University (MA '06).