WW - Work Culture Festival: Facebook Campus, © Claude Dutson

Engineering Serendipity: Collaboration and Creativity in the Architecture of Silicon Valley

Claude DutsonArchitect, Researcher

Silicon Valley workplaces are renowned for their creativity and productivity. Drawing on extensive research into tech giants like Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Meta (Facebook), Claude Dutson will explore the lessons gleaned from their architecture, design, and local infrastructure. These tech campuses prioritise personal fulfilment within company missions, fostering employee potential and well-being, and their architecture facilitates team connectivity, and serendipitous encounters. Dutson will also examine how these campuses reshape urban environments and work practices, potentially triggering significant social and economic shifts, and show how some ideas are already being implemented beyond Silicon Valley.

Photo: Facebook Campus, © Claude Dutson

Engineering Serendipity: Collaboration and Creativity in the Architecture of Silicon Valley

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Purposeful Thinking: How We Can Live and Work Better in a Digital World

Engineering Serendipity: Collaboration and Creativity in the Architecture of Silicon Valley

Rethinking Workspaces: Strategic Advantages Due to Clever Interior Design

Digitisation in the World of Work: Germany Needs an AI Boost

The Future of Work is Shared: What’s Next for Co-working

Harnessing AI: How Intelligent Ambiences Can Boost Productivity and Wellbeing at Work

From NewWork to NewRegion: New Ways to Organize Office Work

Future Workspace Technologies: What’s Next?

Healthy Structures: How Architecture Can Support Wellbeing

Psychology of a Society Troubled by Uncertainty: The New Logic of Work

Thinking with your hands: Understanding the future of work with Lego® Serious Play® [Workshop]

Work Culture: Corporate Culture as a Success Factor in the Transformation Process

Knowledge on Demand: How Will AI Change How (and Where) We Work?

Art Works: Harnessing the Power of Art to Drive Organizational Change

Anywhere Office: Working Models in Times of Future Work – a Holistic View

From New to Next Work: “It´s the Culture, Stupid!”

Decision AI: How AI Is Changing the World of Work

Food for Thought: What Should a Healthy Workforce Eat and Drink?

Disruption and New Energy: On Transformation in the World of Music and Sustainability in the Racing Industry

Supported by Sound: Why Music Can Make the Workforce Thrive

Meditation Mode: Why Architects Need to Heal Themselves to Heal the World

Good Lighting in Modern Office Concepts: Individual – Flexible – Sustainable

(In)flexible Working Models: How HR Practices Can Compensate for the Disadvantages

The Shape of Things to Come: Why We Need Moments of Wonder

The Immobile Society: How Metamobility Will Change Our Working Environments

Spatial Perception: Where the Physical Office Still Needs to Catch up in its Offerings [Dialogue]

Sustainability: Eco-design regulations and chemicals in products and process

The Lack of Skilled Workers: The Hidden Opportunities for Employees, Companies and Society

Embracing Uncertainty: What Corporations Can Learn from Chefs

Leadership and Team: Everyone Has to Take Responsibility [Dialogue]

Lessons Learned GIZ Campus Bonn: What Remains! A Dialogue Between Planning and Use [Panel]

Starchitecture Without Starchitects: How to Create Work Environments That Foster Collective Excellence

The Workplace of Tomorrow: Participatory and Evidence-based Office Design

The Office as a Learning Space: New Work Always Means Reskilling

Building the Collaboration of Tomorrow: Science in Transition

The Power of Data: How AI Transforms Workplace Design

GEN Z Podcast: ZOOMER MEETS BOOMER

New Work: When Work Turns into Something that Empowers People

Mental Health: What the Reality in Companies Looks Like and How We Can Change It for the Better

A Change of Perspective: Leadership and Leading in Complex Situations [Talk]

Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Experience Live How Mental Health (Doesn’t) Work [Workshop]

The Value of Work: The Courage to Break New Ground