| Day One |
| 6-9 PM | Opening Event
An opportunity to meet sponsors and greet participants, faculty, and students from the MIT Center for Real Estate, Architecture and Sloan Schools. | |
| Day Two |
| 8-8:30 AM | Group Coffee and Administration | |
| 8:30-10:30 AM | Strategy and Design: Why Space Matters
Prof. Burton and Prof. Duffy present course foundations. | Vischer, Jacqueline. Will This Open Space Work? Harvard Business Review, May-June 1999, pp. 4-7. |
| 10:30-11:30 AM | Architecture and Communication
Research and findings by Prof. Tom Allen. | Allen, Thomas. Architecture and Communication Among Product Development Engineers. MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper. Cambridge, MA, 1997, pp. 1-35. |
| 11:30-1 PM | Lunch
Opportunity to visit office spaces at MIT and Kendall Square. | |
| 1-2:30 PM | Collective Intelligence and Information Distribution
Federico Casalegno | |
| 2:30-4 PM | Marketing, Distributed Work and Reinvention
Prof. Diane Burton presents the case of Chiat/Day. | Berger, Warren. Lost in Space. Wired, February 1999.
Dix, David. Virtual Chiat. Wired, July 1994.
Gladwell, Malcolm. Designs for Working. The New Yorker, December 11, 2000, 60-72. |
| Day Three |
| 8-8:30 AM | Coffee | |
| 8:30-10 AM | Architecture of Knowledge
Gunter Henn demonstrates how space is changed by networks. | Henn, Gunter, and Dirk Meyhofer. Architecture of Knowledge. Munich: Junius, 2003. |
| 10-11:30 PM | From Consolidation to Innovation
Charles Slife and Cameron Roberts present Gillette R&D labs. | Chusid, Michael. Public Musings on Acoustical Privacy. Architectural Record. September 2001, pp. 163-172. |
| 11:30-1 PM | Lunch Break | |
| 1-2:30 PM | Discussion of Case Studies and Emerging Topics
Beyond work stations: Themes in strategic focused design. | Slide Deck from workingSPACES. |
| 2:30-4 PM | Workplace Design: An Evolving Practice
Professor and designer Frank Duffy on a series of designs that have changed spaces and attitudes. | Duffy, Francis. The New Office. London: Conran Octopus Limited, 1997. |