Future Research Centers: The Place of Creativity and Innovation

Abstract

Progressive research activities, as essential factors in future societies, are strongly dependent on the creativity and innovation. The built environment is considered as one of the influential aspect in creativity and innovation and its appropriate features are sought here. Among various choices, academic research centers of architecture and urban design are adopted for the sake of this study. Four effective spatial characteristics are first identified as influential spatial characteristics in this case, including privacy, beauty, spatial diversity, and proximity. The analysis is then conducted based on the survey method and, ultimately, some design patterns are proposed in order to enhance the research

The spatial context of organizations: A critique of ‘creative workspaces’

“…The diversity of spaces referred to having different furniture for different activities and spaces to work in the office: a desk, a sofa and a hammock. Bisadi et al (2012) also found that designed common spaces were perceived to increase creativity: Connectedness and the continuity of open and closed spaces were found to enhance visibility and the sense of proximity. Furthermore, they recommend designing special places for 'gathering, chatting, playing and exercising' (Bisadi et al, 2012: 241).…”

“…The author is cautious about drawing any consistent conclusions on the relationship between designing spaces for creativity and calls for more research. Bisadi et al (2012) studied how architecture and urban design researchers would build an academic research centre while being aware that researchers in those fields are particularly sensitive to the physical environment. They were able to identify four influential spatial characteristics: privacy, beauty, spatial diversity and proximity.…”

“…These are factors that may all lead to higher levels of organizational creativity (Allen, 1977; Kristensen, 2004; Kallio, Kallio, & Blomberg, 2015). Second, studies focussing on tools, visuals, furniture and other material elements inducing or stimulating organizational creativity (Haner, 2005; Carlsen, Clegg, & Gjersvik, 2012; Doorley & Witthoft, 2012), and third, studies examining specifically designed spaces for creativity such as ‘innovation labs’ and other kinds of especially ‘creative’ workspaces (Vithayathawornwong, Danko, & Tolbert, 2003; Lindahl, 2004; Lewis & Moultrie, 2005; McCoy, 2005; Magadley & Birdi, 2009; Williams, 2009; Martens, 2011; Sailer, 2011; Bisadi, Mozaffar, & Hosseini, 2012). We will review these three streams of research in the following.…”

Semantic Analysis Over Lessons Learned Contained in Social Networks for Generating Organizational Memory in Centers R&D

“…A variety of innovative and creative ideas are closely related to investigation projects that have provided a solution to current problems for humanity. These solutions respond to new technological necessities, through feasible, viable innovative and creativity methods [4]. First of all, creativity can be directed to the generation of new and useful ideas, whereas innovation is regarded as the process of transforming the best ideas into real products.…”

Designing Architectural Procedure for House Particularly for Children

“…Creativity with a focus on the environment, this axis as the most important factor is the formation of creative ideas. (Bisadi, Hosseini, 2012) in recent years in the field of creativity of children and students does a lot of research in the field of emotional-cognitive and educational issues. Unfortunately in the field of architecture and the role of architectural space less attention has been paid in nurturing creativity (Mahdavinezhad and Silvayeh, 2013).…”