New Workspace, New Culture

Gavin Turner worked for 28 years for HMSO where he was Corporate Marketing Director in the late 1980s. In 1991 he started, and ran successfully for five years, a new office furniture business which placed a particular emphasis on the design of the office environment. He is a law and history graduate of Edinburgh University, a semi-professional musician, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Jeremy Myerson is a writer, editor and researcher specializing in design, architecture and the workplace. He is a visiting professor at De Montfort University, Leicester and was Founder-Editor of DesignWeek. His many books include International Interiors (Volumes 5 and 6), New Public Architecture and Gordon Russell - Designer of Furniture. He is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

• Contents: Introduction. Part One Reviewing The Context: The change we face; Adapting to survive; Making the link; An unholy alliance; Searching for panaceas; Real lives; Who needs bureaucrats?; Prising open government; The nature of the challenge. Part Two Rethinking The Culture: Monolith, Makeshift, Modernizer or Mould-breaker?; Human barriers to progress; Structural barriers to progress; New ways to work; Responding to the challenge. Part Three Redesigning The Environment: Plotting your moves; Town square; Village neighbourhoods; City in miniature; The space-time machine; The campaign room; Welcome to the club; Managing change; References and bibliography; Index.

'The idea central to this book is critically important not just for office design, but for architects and designers working in every field.' Design '... this practical book explains the underlying principles of office design and identifies four typical work environments, together with six workplace layouts and the circumstances in which they have been proved to work.' Business Books Direct Catalogue 'With sharp-witted contributions from financial Times cartoonist Roger Beale, this fusion of design and management thinking is a welcome addition to understanding culture change.' Strategic Communication Management 'Recommended' Change Management Monitor '*** (Best of its kind)' Management Today