The furniture systems that had been designed in the 1960s and 1970s,though an ideal solution for their time, were not able to address the technologically and physiologically based problems of the new workplace. Now, interior designers were called upon to do no less than integrate furniture, technology, ergonomics, building systems, and the environment. [...]
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In the space-planning process, the first step is programming. The space planner interviews the client and, through questionnaires and face-to-face meetings with workers and their supervisors, determines the amount of space required for various functions. Projected growth or shrinkage are factored in, and the collected data help the planner determine the amount of [...] In business, Taylor’s scientific management prevailed, but he had his critics, who were concerned about issues that interior designers still find themselves dealing with a hundred years later. They included Mary Parker Follett of the Harvard Business School,whose humanist, behaviorist approach to the management of organizations represented the opposite side of Taylor’s machinetooled [...] |
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