The upcoming weekend is probably the last one we are still forced to spend indoors. On April 20, the ban on Polish parks and forests will be lifted. However, as long as we are restricted by our home walls, we rush to help - check out Gary Hustwit's "Workplace"!
Lasting just over an hour, the film shows offices - yesterday, today and tomorrow. We spend most of our lives at work. Ideally, office spaces should be properly designed, comfortable, to fully meet our needs. It is known - a workspace can be created by putting a chair, a table and a computer in a room. Multinational corporations are at the forefront of "office culture," creating specially designed rooms for their employees to relax. Google, HSBC and many others offer poufs, armchairs, foosball tables or even hammocks.
In Hustwit's documentary, we visit the New York headquarters of interactive agency R/GA, designed by Foster + Partners. The architects looked at how physical and virtual space could better work together.
The film is all the more interesting today in the wake of the COVID-19pandemic. How will offices and coworking spaces change? Is the solution to design for the next crisis? What will remain of the "traditional" desk-chair-computerworkstations? "Workplace" posed these questions several years ago.
"Workplace" directed and produced by Gary Hustwit, 2016.
The film can be viewed here.
See the beginning of the film for encouragement.
