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WHO	Helen Hamlyn Research Centre
WHERE	Royal College of Art Kensington Gore London SW7 2EU +44 [0] 207 590 4242 http://www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk
WHAT	The RCA Helen Hamlyn Research Centre was set up in January 1999. Its aim is to explore 'design for our future selves' - new ways of living, working, travelling and communicating in an age of rapid social change - and to champion practice-based research at the RCA which improves quality of life for all ages and abilities. In researching the practical design implications of social change, the Centre is developing five key themes at the RCA: ageing population; changing patterns of work; new ways of living; mobility in public environments; and care and rehabilitation for our future selves. Changing patterns of work is the second major social research theme of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre. The 'work for our future selves' programme is dedicated to working with postgraduate students and researchers at the RCA, with industry, academics and design professionals, to create products, services and environments which will support and encourage changing patterns of work.
AND	Helen Hamlyn Research Associates Programme 1999-2001
WHO	Helen Hamlyn Research Associates Programme 1999-2001
WHERE	Royal College of Art Kensington Gore London SW7 2EU +44 [0] 207 590 4242 http://www.hhrc.rca.ac.uk/HHRC/Pages/RA/
WHAT	WORK@home An exploratory multi-disciplinary, design-based research programme looking at work at home. The research identified four types of work at home models - two illustrating when work at home works and two illustrating when work at home doesn't work - to help workers understand their own styles of work at home and to design more effective work spaces.
AND	Helen Hamlyn Research Centre
WHO	Lotta Vaananen Research Associate
WHERE	+44 [0] 207 590 4321 email: I.vaananen@rca.ac.uk
WHAT	Disabled people working at home   All-inclusive design project looking into the issues of disabled people working at home. The research will seek to apply new design thinking through a one-to-one partnership between the designer and a disabled homeworker. The project is part of the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre collaboration with the Leonard Cheshire Foundation in a joint effort with the Design Products course to develop an ability-inclusive understanding of the subject. The research relies on input from disabled people working at home. If you can contribute by sharing your views and experiences, positive and negative, please contact Lotta Vaananen on the address provided.   Work, Life, Tools. The Things we use to do the things we do. Based on an exhibition created by Milton Glaser and the Steelcase Design Partnership
AND	Helen Hamlyn Research Centre
WHO	Yuko Tsurumaru Research Associate
WHERE	+44 [0] 207 590 4325 email: y.tsurumaru@rca.ac.uk
WHAT	WORK@home - practical design implications   How can people working from home use design to create and maintain effective spatial, temporal, psychological, social and role borders that enable them productively balance work and home life? This studio- based research- through- design study will develop from outcomes of the April 1999 RCA WORK@home think tank, which brainstormed a series of 'borders' between work and home. Demographic, cultural and technological trends to work at home will be studied and mapped, and a series of object and future-based design scenarios developed to show how a more socially inclusive future of home working might develop in terms of use of space, resources and equipment. This research is sponsored by the Design Council and Geoffrey Reid Associates. An essential part of the research is seeing how people have set up their workspaces at home. Can you contribute to the research image bank by sending an image of your workspace? What would be your fantasy working environment space?       Working (I do it for the money) by Bill Owens
AND	Helen Hamlyn Research Centre
WHO	Ian Johnston Research Associate
WHERE	+44 [0] 207 590 4332 email: i.johnston@rca.ac.uk
WHAT	Alternative ways of working: the emergence of nomadic workstyle This research will investigate user behaviour in relation to the phenomenon of 'continuous working'- in the home, on the move, at a hotel or in the office. Emphasis will be on understanding the emergence of a pioneering nomadic workstyle and on developing visual design concepts and scenarios which explain its key impulses and effects. The project will use a range of qualitative user research and applied research-through-design to ensure that such concepts and scenarios map developments in this area. This research is sponsored by Samas Systems Furniture in collaboration with the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre Question: "Work is no longer a place, it is an activity. I work everywhere all the time and I go to my office to be disturbed, not to concentrate. My concentrated effort now takes place on trains and plains, in cars and hotel rooms, at home and not in my office." Professor Peter Cochrane, Head of research for BT, RSA Journal 2/4 1999 If you can identify with this statement it is most likely that you are leading a nomadic workstyle. Could you please share with me your views, insights, images and anything else you think is connected to this emerging workstyle.   Work, Life, Tools. The Things we use to do the things we do. Based on an exhibition created by Milton Glaser and the Steelcase Design Partnership
AND	Helen Hamlyn Research Centre
WHO	Jeremy Myerson and Philip Ross
WHERE	Laurence King, London 1999 http://www.calmann-king.com
WHAT	The creative office is an inspiring survey of the latest design and architecture solutions for the modern workplace. At the heart of the book are over 40 case study office environments from around the world, carefully selected from a broad range of industries - from insurance, car manufacture and finance to publishing, advertising and record production. This fully illustrated examination - with 275 images - places special emphasis on how an office environment can be designed to encourage group working, the sharing of knowledge, a spirit of community within larger organizations, and non-territorial working - employees working where and how they want supported by cordless technologies. And special attention is paid to furniture, lighting and material solutions within office buildings. A comprehensive study of how architecture and design can promote creativity in the modern workplace
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WHO	Paul Warner
WHERE	Geoffrey Reid Associates
WHAT	'Sense and sensitivity: an office design strategy' In this interesting article, Paul Warner, Director of Research and Development, for architects Geoffrey Reid Associates, takes a fresh look at the Georgian approach to architectural design and suggests it as a model and inspiration for how companies today could respond effectively to the pressing social and economic forces that bear down on all businesses whilst keeping the needs of workers paramount and making a harmonious contribution to the urban landscape.
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