What is it about faculty offices that stirs up so much controversy? Go to most campuses, strike up a conversation with facilities personnel, and it quickly becomes a loaded topic. We wanted to dig deeper to gain a better understanding of the needs of faculty and campus leaders to address the topic with informed facts. Our team recently returned from West Michigan for another insightful Research Immersion Workshop, our ongoing partnership with Herman Miller’s research team. We appreciated working beyond our typical collaborative circle to challenge our thinking. As Bruce Mau says in his Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, this session was an opportunity to: “Listen carefully. Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world into..
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