Combined retail and work environment
The Steelcase Worklife Chicago Showroom, located in the Chicago Merchandise Mart, was designed to reinforce Steelcase’s position as knowledge leaders in workplace effectiveness and provide an environment for the 40-plus Steelcase sales team to showcase their product solutions. It provides a fully immersive customer environment to introduce the Pathways product line while presenting conceptual workplace strategies that emerged from research work with the Institute for Research on Learning in communities of practice.
IDEO’s environments group design the space to combine the public and private aspects of a combined selling/work environment. The showroom is truly a working office environment, while the upper floor is a lab environment where there is a materials library, seating lab, and ergonomics lab available for client use. Also found there is the Globe project, which incorporates information technology into the office system to provide a vision of the future of groupwork.
Project date: 1997
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