Office layout process (Personal Workplace)

A 24-step sequence for individuals to design their own office using a cardboard model and a flexible furniture system, as developed for Herman Miller.

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Concepts (2)

concept

Living process
implements
A generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment
Centers
implements
Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.

Artifacts (2)

artifact

Cardboard model for office layout
uses
A scale cardboard model used in the office layout process to enable users to visualize and adjust the arrangement of furniture components.
Personal Workplace office furniture system
uses
A modular, highly customizable office furniture system designed for Herman Miller to allow individuals to build their ideal workspace.

Chapters (1)

chapter

How Living Processes Will Generate The Uniqueness Of People's Individual Worlds
mentions
Chapter 12 of A Vision of a Living World, presenting examples and principles showing how living processes create unique, personal environments.

Conceptual bridges

2-hop · via this method's ideas

Where ideas in this method connect to the rest of the corpus — the same concept, an analogy, or a restatement elsewhere.

Living process
~Generative Program ≈Fundamental process· systems ≈healing process· philosophy

Related by similarity (8)

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The office layout process resulted in highly personalized workspaces, as evidenced by photographs of completed offices.finding0.865
Visual proof that the method produces unique, comfortable work environments.
House layout processmethod0.824
A generative sequence enabling families to lay out an organic, unique, and beautiful house suited to site and people.
Window layout processmethod0.814
Sequence for placing windows during construction to make them as beautiful as possible in relation to the whole.
architectural processconcept0.777
The idea that social process must become truly architectural—i.e., morphogenetic, form-creating—to generate a living world.
Individual Processconcept0.773
A locally complete, self-contained creative process that creates a single center from conception to completion, in a continuous sequence.
Typical CAD kitchen layout processmethod0.772
Commercial CAD sequence that allows free placement of counters, appliances, and colors without guidance about centers.
process, not designconcept0.770
The idea that the life of a building comes from the process of its creation, not from a preconceived design on paper.
processesconcept0.770
Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs