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@article{Meinel2017DesigningCW, title={Designing Creativity-Enhancing Workspaces: A Critical Look at Empirical Evidence}, author={Martin Meinel and Lukas Maier and Timm F. Wagner and Kai-Ingo Voigt}, journal={ERN: Innovation (Topic)}, year={2017}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:163158699}}
  • Martin Meinel, Lukas Maier, K. Voigt
  • Published 2017
  • Business
  • ERN: Innovation (Topic)

A systematic literature review is conducted to draw a comprehensive overview of existing empirical research on creativity-enhancing workspaces and offer insights into how workspaces should be designed so that they foster creativity.

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The Architecture of Creativity: Toward a Causal Theory of Creative Workspace Design
    K. ThoringM. GonçalvesR. MuellerP. DesmetP. Badke-Schaub

    Education

  • 2021

So-called creative spaces are being implemented in educational and corporate organizations worldwide with the intention of better facilitating creativity and innovation processes among coworkers. The

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A spatial design guideline for supporting creativity at architectural firms
    Ziad LabibK. NabilKhairy Amin

    Engineering

    HBRC Journal

  • 2023

ABSTRACT In recent years, creativity has become a major focus in organizations competing to develop new products and offer new solutions to the community. Since then, the achitectural firms’

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Spaces for Creativity: Unconventional Workspaces and Divergent Thinking
    Sunkee LeeManuel E. Sosa

    Psychology, Business

    SSRN Electronic Journal

  • 2022

In recent years, companies have been experimenting with unconventional workspace designs—often characterized by bright or odd colored walls, unique light fixtures, unusual office furniture, vibrant

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Spatial design factors associated with creative work: a systematic literature review
    K. ThoringR. MuellerP. DesmetP. Badke-Schaub

    Education, Engineering

    Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design…

  • 2020

Pupils, educators, and researchers can use the presented overview to investigate the possible impact of creative workspace design and identify research gaps that can be filled by conducting further research in the field.

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Designing Creative Space: A Systemic View on Workspace Design and its Impact on the Creative Process
    K. Thoring

    Engineering, Art

  • 2019

Work and study environments that facilitate creative design processes, the so called creative spaces, have been gaining increased interest in recent years. The question whether or not the physical

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Enhancing creativity in activity‐based offices: A critical incident study of knowledge workers
    Sepideh YekanialibeiglouHalime DemirkanLeif Denti

    Business, Psychology

    Creativity and Innovation Management

  • 2021

This study investigated the effects of activity-based offices (ABOs) on individual and group creativity. Adopting an interactionist perspective, we extended the theoretical framework of creative

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Exploring the Role of Creativity in Software Engineering
    Wouter GroeneveldL. LuytenJoost VennekensKris Aerts

    Computer Science

    2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on…

  • 2021

This study identifies the added value of creativity, which creative techniques are used, how creativity can be recognized, the reasons for being creative, and what environment is needed to facilitate creative work.

Creative Space: A Systematic Review of the Literature
    K. ThoringPieter M. A. DesmetP. Badke-Schaub

    Education, Business

    Proceedings of the Design Society: International…

  • 2019

This paper provides an overview of the state-of-the-art research about creative work and learning environments. We conducted a systematic literature search within the Scopus database and identified a

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Manifesting Creativity in Virtual World Building: A Case Study in Gather
    Celine LatulipeHussein Agoushi Jason Shields

    Environmental Science, Engineering

  • 2023

The environmental design field has established methodologies for designing indoor and outdoor environments and developed best practices for designing spaces to support human creativity. Thoring et

Understanding the Mechanisms of Activity-based Workspaces: A Case Study
    Tobias T. EismannOscar PakosMarc RückerMartin MeinelLukas MaierK. Voigt

    Business

    Environment and Behavior

  • 2021

A taxonomy of ABWs is developed and how various design parameters affect how people perform in ABWs regarding communication, leadership, working style, and work performance is analyzed.

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Spaces for Creativity and Innovation in Two Established Organizations
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    Business, Psychology

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Organizational work environments are increasingly strategically designed to support creativity and innovation processes, although a consistent theoretical frame for such an endeavour has not been

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The Role of the Physical Environment in Supporting Organizational Creativity
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    Business, Psychology

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Creativity has been underscored as a key factor to organizational adaptability and competitiveness in today's rapidly changing business environment. Designing as well as managing work environments

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    Business, Psychology

    Ergonomics

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A conceptual framework for the effect of personal, social-organisational and physical factors on employee creativity is presented and an instrument to analyse the extent to which the work environment enhances creativity is developed.

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Creative workplace: instrumental and symbolic support for creativity
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    Business, Psychology

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the relationship between the physical workplace and creativity.Design/methodology/approach – The paper summarises literature from business

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Creative workplace characteristics and innovative start-up companies
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    Business, Engineering

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Purpose This study aims to investigate the characteristics of the physical work environment that are known and used in practice to promote creativity for innovative start-up workplaces. The

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Making Innovation Happen in Organizations: Individual Creativity Mechanisms, Organizational Creativity Mechanisms or Both?
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Marketing managers increasingly face a product innovation dilemma. Managers will have to sell more with fewer new products in an environment where new products are providing lower revenue yields.

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The Influence of Affects on Creativity: What Do We Know by Now?
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    Psychology, Business

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Research and practice have proved the importance of creativity in innovation management. Thereby, individual creativity can be influenced by many determinants. Affective states seem to be a decisive

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    Business, Engineering

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Recent years have seen an increase in the number of innovation labs, purpose-built physical facilities designed to enhance and support creativity and innovation in organizations. This rising

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Freedom from constraints: Darkness and dim illumination promote creativity
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    Psychology, Business

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The Impact of a Creativity‐supporting Work Environment on a Firm's Product Innovation Performance
    J. DulCanan Ceylan

    Business, Psychology

  • 2014

Many scholars and practitioners have suggested that a creativity-supporting work environment contributes to a firm's product innovation performance. Although there is evidence that such an

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