Employees of Facebook recently moved to a new headquarters designed by San Francisco firm Studio O+A, that facilitates interaction and connection, reflecting the company’s mission as a social networking website provider. Formerly a laboratory facility for high-tech manufacturer Agilent Technologies, the 150,000-square-foot structure at Palo Alto’s Stanford Research Park brings together more than 700 employees [...]
Tag Archives: Collaboration
On The Job: izzy+, Chuck Saylor Talks Collaboration
July 23, 2009 – 1:00 pm
Chuck Saylor, founder and CEO of izzy+, spoke with otto about collaboration in the workplace and how collaboration has affected his own company’s work culture. What are your thoughts on where collaboration in the workplace was, is, and is going? CS: Right now, we’re going through a cultural transition. People are sensing this change. The [...]
Sketchbook: Kalmar and Jonathan Browning
July 23, 2009 – 12:00 pm
Last year marked the beginning of a lighting collaboration between Kalmar, an Austrian lighting firm with a rich history that dates back to the 1870′s and the contemporary San Franciscan lighting studio of Jonathan Browning. The lauded Dornstab lamp is the just one of the products in the 2008 collaborative collection that began with Jonathan [...]
The Incident at Tower 37, a Study in Collaborative Learning
July 22, 2009 – 2:00 pm
Chris Perry is a computer animator and professor at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Formerly a programmer with Pixar, Perry drew from his professional experience to design an unorthodox approach to the educational process. Under his guidance, a group of students undertook the production of a short animated film. Each student was assigned a specific [...]
