How do you create an innovative environment?
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, we discuss the truth about environments that lead to innovation. Is there really such a thing as an environment for innovation? Watch to find out, and share your thoughts below!
0:10 - Introduction
1:23 - Story of Building 20
3:06 - Characteristic 1 - Temporary
3:55 - Characteristic 2 - Multi-Disciplinary
5:10 - Characteristic 3 - Maze-Like
5:55 - Characteristic 4 - Serendipity
8:18 - Characteristic 5 - Horizontal Layout
9:18 - Knowledge Spillover
JOIN MY NEWSLETTER:
www.damilee.com/newsletter
MY FAVOURITE TOOLS:
My TH-cam Camera Gear: kit.co/damilee/my-filming-kit
My Studio Essentials: kit.co/damilee/dami-s-studio-...
Book Recommendations: www.damilee.com/book-recommen...
INSTAGRAM - / damileearch
TWITTER - / damileearch
LINKEDIN (plz send me a msg first!) -
WHO AM I:
I'm Dami, a licensed Architect living in Vancouver, BC. I make videos about architecture, career, and creativity.
WEBSITE - www.damilee.com
GET IN TOUCH:
If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you! Commenting on a video or tweeting @damileearch will be the quickest way to get a response from me, but if your question is very long, feel free to email me at hello@damilee.com. I try my best to respond to the emails, but unfortunately, there just aren't enough hours in the day!
![MEGACITIES: Reality or Fiction? [Architecture in Sci-Fi]](/img/n.gif)
What do you think will happen to innovation in the post-covid world?
innovation will happen
It’s going to explode with everything going on with web3 and the meta verse
I believe the move towards working from home will allow people to detach from trying to keep up with others in the work place. This should leave to a reduction in mass consumption of clothing, fuel, unhealthy food, etc. Though this isnt the typical perception that most have in regards to innovation, it is quite different from recent work culture.
Innovation is something inevitable. For a change to happen, there should be innovation. In the post COVID world, innovation will take place more. COVID as reorganized our day to day activities. It's left for us to fit in by introducing new way of living, which is innovation.
I'm in the camp that the post-covid [design] world is going to look completely different.The best analogy I've heard is that it's like when drafting went from hand drawings to CAD; it doesn't make sense immediately because we're so used to the old way, but it's sure to get better. Eventually it will be the way everything is done. Our industry is so slow to adapt to change, and we've been given an opportunity to jump 50 years ahead.
I'm not convinced there will be a long-term societal shift. I think pandemic awareness will stick around for another generation or so but we already see things going back to how they were before in a lot of places where COVID has been beaten back. Here in the US there is such a mix of conscientiousness and carelessness I would be surprised if there will ever be any adequate laws passed regarding future prevention.
It's tough to say whether there will be any major shifts in physical infrastructure but it's definitely interesting to see shifts in ways of working and living. Rather than an intentional cultural shift, I think major changes will come down to the feasibility of having certain spaces open... retail / restaurants/ co working spaces are losing a lot of money due to social distancing, and we might see these spaces being broken up into smaller chunks or connecting with other functions. I think what we three all agree on, is that the industry is very slow to adapt to change 🐌 so I have been feeling that it needs to be change demanded by certain economic pressures, not cultural necessarily cultural shifts 🤔
What do you think now that almost everyone got vaccinated?
@@mahmoudramdane2848 It's still going to look different. We need things to be designed more resilient.
@@vinapocalypse Hi Looking at it now after 2 years... Although, things have pretty much gone back to being how it was, we have realised the importance of work from home, people understood the value of staying with families and are now using a half and half situation and this has given a great work - life balance. Firms are hiring more people across the globe because now you can be working from anywhere in the world without going through the hassels of visa processes.
Wow, this is exactly what my mock thesis for my 4th year project was focused on. So excited to see you doing a whole feature on Building 20! I'm in Kenya so this specific video is actually a serendipitous encounter for me. I think multidisciplinary online sessions are the way to go. Innovation will never end as long as human intelligence exists so let's see what the future holds.
Cool! Yeah it's an interesting topic that seem to be constantly evolving. 😁
Omg this channel is soo underrated
I love the content a lot ❤️
Love you from Kuwait 🇰🇼❤️
Thank you so much!! ❤
imagien how awesome her lectures and tutorials would be ✨✨
I love your videos! I am not an architect and I'm still (more than) enjoying the awesomeness overload that is going on here, brilliant stuff!
I was an interior arc student for a year in uni but then opted to switch back to pre-med. Your vids make me wish I would’ve stuck it out! I would have loved having peers to have convos like this with! Your channel is so underrated :)
Very articulate and your thoughts helps me encourage my daughter (her 2nd year in architecture school) to go further.
That's great! Just encouragement and listening goes a long way 😊
Pretty interesting video. Knew the history of the microwave and its origins, but didn't know that the research were made in that building! It's great how you relate innovation, pioneering, multidisciplinarity and work spaces.
Very interesting topic. The current system we use for multi-disciplinary buildings to compartmentalize every discipline does in a sense limit innovation. I've seen this with my previous school in Architecture were by once a year students are given a chance to mingle with other disciplines and share ideas with each other which leads to more innovative thought processes and peer reviews outside of ones discipline. Previously they had an "open door" system whereby students can just walk to which ever department they like, mingled, shared ideas or just normally socialized. The horizontal Innovation system is honestly the best I've experience, and I finished my degree online due to covid and I found it a bit distracting and not ideal due to the limitation of in person critiques and discussions with lecturers, tutors, mentors and students. I would very much love to see the Horizontal Innovation system in more schools even outside of architecture because once you leave for the work environment, that is what you experience in the field.
I loved this breakdown. I’ve been interested in this for a while too so I’ll make sure to look into the examples you showed. I do think innovation is extremely important during this Covid era because it’s setting new precedents for interacting while co-working and networking.
Thanks Feyi! Yes it's true - I think it's an opportunity for new ways of sharing ideas. I'm super curious to see what will happen in the next few years!
The point about the building having a horizontal layout is very interesting. When I think about it, it makes sense. Something is definitely lost when you go up….rather than out.
Im actually working on a seating research and this inspired me rn... straigth up inspired. thx. Those books and search on search were getting boring
Very cool topic, and one that is clearly very important in Silicon Valley, as companies like Apple, Google, Tesla, and Netflix all rely on creating innovation-centric environments, where various people are encouraged to get away from their task at hand and have serendipitous interactions with their colleagues.
Rethinking how work is done is core to rethinking the creation of innovative products and services. Great ideas and presentation.
I really liked learning about these concepts, mixing different depts. within an organisation, serendipity and deep and shallow working. I'm gonna dig a bit deeper! Thanks :)
Very interesting knowledge about creative process and innovative setting in term of spaces and architectural design :D
I am a architect myself, still young and keen to learn more about this :)
I'm an engineering student that loves architecture.
Well thought out video and just a joy to watch and learn. Awesome 👏🏾
Thank you Leon! 😊
Serendipity- has been define happy help you fill🤜🏾🤛🏾 thank you! 🍫🍪
Great content and great presentation.. love your videos. This one of the best. I’ve found very few TH-camr in Architectural field.
I think having the person to person interaction is something that can't be replaced by video chat, I'm really enjoying your content it is interesting and informative!
Thank you!! And yeah I totally agree, and it's been a hard realisation for me these past few months. Hopefully things will return to normal soon, and we will just have an additional tool for communicating 😁
Hey I really loved the video, as an architecture student myself, I find the 'online' situation pretty damaging; we hardly communicate , we don't make models by hand, we barely touch paper..I really miss the studio environment . It's almost depressing :(
yeah I can imagine. Try to create the studio environment as much as possible in the home, maybe set regular meetings with your friends, etc. It won't be the same, but it could help. Hopefully next year you can go back to studio!! :)
Just discovering your videos now (after the sci-fi arch breakdowns). I've been thinking a lot about the post-covid work landscape as well, especially for new grads that aren't established socially or known in their field. In-person connection has basically led to every career advancement I've made, personally. For context, I do startup stuff, build software, etc.
I've experimented with game-like co-work spaces where you can walk your character around a space and freely enter into video chats with other workers based on proximity, but it's a bit cumbersome to include this in the work process... If anything, the closest I've seen to a space for innovation is discord nowadays, but there are still plenty of obstacles to actually working within/among a discord server. Can discord servers become mini cities almost?
As another commenter was saying though, the actual state that we settle into will probably look nothing like what we already know, but speculation is fun, at least, if not an exercise in visualizing stuff that we can build.
love your channel and content! thank you for sharing such good insight
No problem and thank you for joining me! 😊
I defenitely miss classroom encounters, but with complex ptsd I think a little more is needed.
thanks for explaing serendipitous, It's not going to live in my vernacular just jet but at least it does'nt feel lost in my vocabulary anymore
Dami, you are the best mentor ever.
DamiLee. My thoughts on your channel. ‘A million thumbs up 👍🏿’
Omg... Serendipity.
I was wondering why I had such a problem with everything in our societies being segregated/separated into different buildings and locations. It makes everything so predictable, machine like, and kind of void of serendipitous experiences that can influence our life path. If we become too entrenched in our routine paths in our cities, we become blind to everything else and lose that exciting sense of expansion and growth that we get when we're part of something that's evolving.
Those typical collaboration type spaces are a nice idea, but they typically don't inspire connections between complete strangers, like a confusing maze like building does! Imagine if two people were needed to open doors. Ahaha : P
This video is SO important.
Yeah you're right! At an urban scale, Venice is an amazing example of a labyrinthine city. Whenever I've been there, I don't look at the map and just let myself wander and I've discovered so many wonderful gems. It's a much more pleasant way of experiencing space as well, I think.
You really have quite an awesome video editing skills. I really enjoy them.
Thank you :)
This is so interesting. I’ve never really thought about this topic until I saw the video. Are there other building that use this type of “innovative method” without it being horizontal? It could save a lot of space especially near cities.
I think Google, apple, amazon, any of the new tech campuses adopt this idea in some way or in some form. Hmmm non horizontal? If you check out harvard Gsd studio or renzo piano's design studio in Genova, you will see they have a non horizontal, cascading mezzanine type setup that creates visual connection all throughout the space 😊
Hi Dami, I've been watching your videos lately, I love your contents, love your personality, love you from London.
Great Content - good job.
Thank you!!
The covid era seems to burst an impact in design. I wonder what other opportunities will come. Looking forward!! Thank you - architect student
Yeah it really does. Lots of opportunities but also lots of drawbacks. Let's see what happens!
Such a great vid! In this era, TH-cam is one of those serendipitous "buildings". I stumbled into your channel, and found some useful info, like Bose did. :)
Unfortunately, the youtube "building" is inside a dollar store, within a shopping mall, wrapped up in a night club with mardi gras on the front porch.... :p
You might like the book: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Yes I have been meaning to pick up that book! Thanks for the recommendation!
The building's room number system would make sense to people in the UK, Australia and NZ - what you call "first floor" is what we'd call "ground floor", so we'd often have rooms on the floor above street level starting with '1', because that's our "first floor".
I think creating an innovating environment in your own mind is a worthy goal… Daniel Pink’s book, “A whole new Mind” touches on your observation of “cross pollination”… (I’m badly paraphrasing): You should deliberately examine (as an example) three magazines every month that are not remotely in your sphere of interest. The example he gave, was of a graphic designer who was tasked with a critical logo design and ultimately he found inspiration by reading a magazine of cake decorating. I find this difficult to do in actual practice…. But it surely has merit. Even if you don’t work in a purpose built space conducive to rubbing against a wide spectrum of other disciplines/pursuits… you can create something in your mind/life choices.
I’ve traveled and worked all over the planet. When I’ve encountered a culture that is demonstrably creative and innovative, it has, in literally all instances, been a society in which one hasn’t developed any innate fear of authority. I say ‘fear’ as opposed to ‘respect’ for authority-very different.
I lived in Hong Kong for many years-including during the hand-over. What was once a peaceful, dynamic city full of inspired and innovative talent has become increasingly a place of fear, insofar as speaking one’s mind-not only in commentary on social media, but in public spaces as well. It is saddening.
The grandparents’ generation grew in the WW2-liberated city as powerful entrepreneurs, but they were still somewhat cowed to the British. But by the time two new generations were born, it was their grandchildren who’ve enjoyed their early lives in a ‘free’ Hong Kong but now suddenly must look over their shoulders for fear of having spoken or otherwise expressed themselves with regard to the open freedom they once had-now also worried of facial-recognition programs in the city’s ubiquitous surveillance systems. Interestingly, while innovative experiments in Shanghai have progressed well beyond the state’s once rigidly uniform color schemes and blocky, early communist-style structures, purposefully designed to be unobtrusive and utilitarianly mundane, Shanghai’s skyline today is riotously awash with wonderful, futuristic, innovative architecture shimmering with energy from Xintiandi to northern Pudong. Yet Hong Kong seems comparatively lost today-once a gleaming inspiration for Shanghai ren, now nearly the opposite. I only mention this as an example of how and why innovation can be socially impacted-either suppressed or enlivened-with regard to architecture and it’s reflection of a particular society’s health.
A lot of tech companies' campuses are modeled off of horizontal university campuses because they know that a lot of great ideas come from these environments and giving students (or employees) a lot of latitude, but sometimes there just isn't the corporate culture to create a lot of innovation. I think though when you are not just physically but also culturally/structurally horizontal, you increase the creativity and potential for cross-pollination. Contrast with a company like Microsoft which is deeply hierarchical (something like 7 layers of managers??) and there is, as I understand it, little innovation except in their R&D departments.
That's totally true. What's unique about building 20, more than the physical building, is the organizational structure and multi disciplinary nature of the ppl occupying the building. I am not a fan of case studies that show only the architectural solution without the economics behind the project or habits of the occupants because i think it's always a combination of those factors that make a building successful.
Where is your watch from? I absolutely love.
There must be a communal type of setting in an office structure where people can freely discuss their ideas. (This can even apply online), based on my experience what usually happens are employees usually just agree on what the principal says. Theres this boss-employee mentality that naturally happens which must be overcome for creative thoughts to flow freely.
Yeah for sure, the personality and attitude of the principal definitely sets the mood for the office culture, which is why I try to stalk the principals first before applying to any jobs 😅
@@DamiLeeArch lol yup solid advice esp.for younger architects.
"Any time something becomes trendy, there's a tendency to replicate the look without actually understanding the principles". 100%. Prime example would be Hippy culture in the USA during the 1960's; once the Hippy movement became trendy, the underlying philosophy was skewed, and more emphasis was placed on the form.
In different perspective of different occupations and fields. Innovative ideas and lifestyles will come in mind. We are all new in the communicative part of the new era of technology. Just in the 80s we had brick phones now we are all faced with smarter tech and faced with issues of traditional ways of life. Do we need things to get better or do we need to understand more of how things are used today. Do we want to go to far advanced that we leave no room for mistakes? We also have the resource issue and environmental issue that we are just getting a grasp of. It all depends on our education and the persistent of improvement. Are we ready to let go of our past structure and close the book and put it up in the shelves?
Great video!
Thank you!
Seriously tho, with all the hard work you put in the videos, you deserve more exposure tho
I don't know who edited this, but if it was Raf he did a great job!
thanks flora! It was half me, half raf. I'll let him know you liked the video, he'll be happy to hear some compliments once in a while bahahah
I think we can bring innovation on construction methodology because due to pandemic we get less amount of time to build.. so for example we can go for steel structures and kind other easy material usage
I am from Brazil, love your vídeos
Its hard study online, but help me with The 3d models
Yeah I can imagine it's hard studying online. I will do my best to help on the channel 😁
Hi dami , how are you doing
Can i ask you a question please,
1 _ Studying architecture does it require a good drawing skills ?
2_ if i have 0 knowledge about how buildings are built ( like how does the carpenter do his job and other building processe levels) are these things essential to know before getting into the school or it's things we know by practicing??
Thank you
you're really a strong woman ❤❤🌷🌷
It would be interesting to see all trades (architecture, structural, MEP) on a same space as Building 20... Imagine all the disagreements, but I think it will be fun. Haha!
Damii!!!!! I
Thanks 🥰
How can I search for the music beginning @ 1:34
all my music is from Envato Elements!
innovation, true innovation, is achieved through channeling inspiration from the ether. you get a complete vision. you will intuitively build out your vision in a style that incorporates the universal source consciousness throughout and it should speak for God
Not a fan of big open concept offices, tend to give me a headache with all the light that flows in and noise.
Good video! 👍
Do you know any successful project of "Building 20" kind which is in use right now? Or maybe you'd like to design something like this?
Thanks a lot! Off the top of my head, a lot of new tech headquarters like apple, Google or amazon are designed using the horizontal layout. Of course, what makes building 20 unique is not ONLY the physical building but the organizational structure and the multi disciplinary collaboration of the ppl who were occupying it, so I'd be curious to understand how the departments are divided. I would love to be a part of a team to design something like this! For my thesis project, I designed (not built) a library where I applied some of these ideas. Maybe I will show it some day if there is any interest!!
@@DamiLeeArch Yes! Make a movie about your thesis project👍 😀
Every time I here serendipity I think Mark Twain. Like his whole Aura was very searedipitst
Will you be free for a virtual tour on a bamboo architecture on November 6?
Have you read: How buildings learn, by Stewart Brand?
Yes! I learned about building 20 reference from that book
Hold up ! WHHHAT?! Ryerson University Toronto! NO WAY! Wish you were in Humber aswell 😭😢
I usually make fun of Ryersons design and innovation campus but now I kinda envey them lol But i hope i can meet you someday and who know, work as well =) Ay im just imagining possibilities rn haha Let me day dream at least ppl😂
Yes I went to ryerson!! Their new SLC is the bomb. I moved to vancouver though. If you're ever here, hit me up!
@@DamiLeeArch Woah 💯 For sure now =) Thank you so much! you're awesome. have an amazing fall season
This is really odd, but when our government agency decided to redo all of our work cubicles over a year or so ago, and move us to different parts of the building, ... they put most of the "worker bees" in low-walled cubicles, and the managers in closed off glass "cubicles". To me, the "poor managers" where if they were in a "square fish bowl", for everyone to see, ... like animals at a zoo.
And then the pandemic hit, so they're not spending time there anymore, and basically we're all working from home, for the time being.
Yeah that's pretty interesting. I feel that a lot of office trends (open plan, glass box, etc.) haven't been properly studied or tested enough to see their effectiveness. We'll see what comes out of the pandemic, hopefully it's change for the better 😁
There's so much steam built up in the "innovation room" from COVID that I think innovation is inevitable.
It took me a minute to understand my own words here. This must be what it's like when people talk to me or read the things I write. Anywhoo.. this was in reference to what I've been talking about lately referring to "potential energy". COVID created potential energy, and when things started to open back up it made everyone want to innovate (including all of the social movements). Innovation also comes in the form of quitting jobs and starting businesses, etc. #archiveanchor #commentaudit
11:06 = 100%
So the only reason why my company is struggling for innovation is because you guys did not do your job poorly enough. I always knew it was not my fault and now I have your proof.😀
I am not an architect but I am trying to design my retirement house. How can I find a student who can help me for a small fee. I don't need a full set of plans yet just help with a lay out. I know much of what I want. I can't afford to pay a professional yet. I plan to build the house myself. Thank you.
Hire Dami Lee as an architect ?!?!?
There's no metric for creativity, what is it? Jungians connect it with depression, say it's an experience of the unconscious, the reason why lecturers and actors get depressed before going to work. I've experienced what your saying, that something flourishes in collaborative settings, just imagine what you can discover when talking to others if your upset, same thing maybe. The Jungians also say how we can't attach permanence to dogma, that a young artist sometimes creates something truly marvelous and the public expects him or her to go on in the same way but the water of life has receded from it and its time to seek it out all over again.
"Jesus Christ that's a pretty face. Kind you'd find on someone I could save."
The background music needs to be more calm
Is Somme Pig mites bite pilot TV show Mansion so call upon to solve peace and mind I swear peace and mind all right somehow someway come on my white tees love and happiness inside Alside pylons key piece
You just make 500 innovation programs! Then ban innovative things like chatgpt!