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Welcome to Spaces Alive! Thanks for visiting our new site. It’s been a busy year. Spaces Alive brings together everything we’ve …
Australian universities are excelling on teaching quality but falling short on social experience
The university experience is changing. The introduction of technology, as well as growing career pressure and the nature of universities …
The top and bottom performing universities for 2018
The Quality in Learning and Teaching (QILT) data for 2018 was released over Easter. This measures the experience that students …
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Google architecture and what do you see? And what’s a building without people?
Think about where you spend most of your day – home, your office, or university. How does this space make …
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Campus planning – design for student experience
I’ve been talking to lots of universities over the past few months about measuring staff and student experience on campus …
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Riding the next Smart Buildings & Cities wave
We have an explosion of big data in our cities and buildings. More than ever before we are going to …
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What are unhealthy buildings actually costing us? Part 2
This is part 2 of a 2 part series on the costs of unhealthy buildings. Indoor Environment Quality Indoor Environment Quality …
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What are unhealthy buildings actually costing us? Part 1
This is the first of a 2 part series of blog posts on the costs of unhealthy buildings. With our increasingly …
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1/3 workers are disengaged, impacting the bottom line
A recent report from Steelcase assessed engagement levels in office workers across the globe. This report was conducted to understand …
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Health impacts in the workplace
When we think about ‘healthy’ workplaces, we often jump to health and fitness, and things such as corporate wellness programs. …
Bring human-centred design to your workplace
When we think of health and wellbeing it is often exercise and diet that comes to mind, but the spaces …
Tips for creating engaging workspaces
I recently attended an event on ‘User Experience’. This particular seminar was on ensuring end-users are engaged, researched and tested …
Is collaboration killing our thinking time?
People are spending less time thinking , creating and solving, and more time in meetings, on emails and reacting to …