Placemaking

Place can be a powerful tool for achieving your goals.

Each organisation and its people are different, yet many offices today look and feel the same. Herman Miller uses a proprietary research-based Living Office Discovery Process to help you envision an office that better reflects who you are and provides greater support for what you do.

Designing for Human Experience

Living Office provides an updated understanding of people and their work, founded on elements that are naturally human: how we experience the world and what motivates us. Informed by this understanding, Living Office provides ideas for the arrangement of surroundings, furnishings and tools to meet the needs of people and deliver a better work experience..

Designing for Human Experience

Living Office provides an updated understanding of people and their work, founded on elements that are naturally human: how we experience the world and what motivates us. Informed by this understanding, Living Office provides ideas for the arrangement of surroundings, furnishings and tools to meet the needs of people and deliver a better work experience..

Living Office Settings

Hive

A Hive is a grouping of workstations that allows people to harmoniously engage in individual and collaborative work.

Haven

A Haven is a small shelter where focused work can be done without distraction.

Clubhouse

A Clubhouse is a working area that belongs to a team assigned to a specific, long-term project.

Forum

Enabled by a clearly defined point of focus, a Forum supports the presentation and discussion of content.

Jump Space

Comprised of highly approachable work points, a Jump Space facilitates work for short periods of time between other activities.

Cove

A Cove is a compact setting near individual work points that enables people to work together for short periods of time.

Plaza

The vibrant and dynamic heart of the landscape, a Plaza is a place where people can intuitively take the pulse of the organisation.

Workshop

A Workshop is the ideal setting for people to work together to generate the ideas that drive work forwards.

Meeting Space

A Meeting Space is designed to support information sharing, whether it’s a single speaker at the head of the room or a group of colleagues conversing among themselves.

Landing

A Landing is an open perching spot adjacent to Meeting Spaces or Forums, where people can warm up before meetings and cool down after they end.