The office jungle: A vision for wildness to turn offices into jungles

Ingmar Nieuweboer; Ida Damen; Hans Brombacher; Pierre Lévy; Steven Vos; Carine Lallemand

doi:10.1145/3393914.3395818

The office jungle: A vision for wildness to turn offices into jungles

Ingmar Nieuweboer, Ida Damen, Hans Brombacher, Pierre Lévy, Steven Vos, Carine Lallemand

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Abstract

The Office Jungle is an experimental office environment designed to make offices more "wild". Through this demonstration and associated design vision, we make a first attempt to reflect on and to define what characterizes wildness and how it could empower people in more playful and active lifestyles, particularly in the workplace. In our understanding, wildness is not an exclusive property of nature, but rather a condition that can be designed for. How wildness can be designed is described here in a set of design principles called "Design for Wildness", inspired by the work of Gibson. The Office Jungle, a large geodesic sphere of 2 meters in diameter, is part and parcel of these design principles and can be used as a tool to design other wild environments. Such environments could benefit people working in the office, many of whom have been suffering the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	341-344
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450379878
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395818
Publication status	Published - 6 Jul 2020
Event	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020 - Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020

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Conference	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20

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Design for wildness
Design vision
Ecological psychology
Phenomenology
The office jungle

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Nieuweboer, I, Damen, I, Brombacher, H , Lévy, P , Vos, S & Lallemand, C 2020, The office jungle: A vision for wildness to turn offices into jungles. in DIS 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 341-344, 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3395818

The office jungle: A vision for wildness to turn offices into jungles. / Nieuweboer, Ingmar; Damen, Ida; Brombacher, Hans et al.
DIS 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2020. p. 341-344.

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