MICHELE DE LUCCHI LA PASSEGGIATA THE WALK
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LA PASS THE
DE LUCCHI
SEGGIATA WALK
WORKING WHILE WALKING It is rightful to believe in philosophy; and philosophy was born while people were walking. Living, working, producing, discussing, deciding and evolving only makes sense if you know where you are going. You also need to know that your destination is worth reaching, no matter it’s place or goal. Certainly the first goal of every living being is survival, but for a long time man has sought a more wholesome and attractive reason to exist. George Bataille shows that, even during the ancient times of the Lascaux Caves, someone took the time to draw on the walls dissociating him/ herself from the mundane problems of finding food, seeking warmth and defending themselves. We are, and probably we will always be in this situation. So we need to find time to continue to look for a more compelling, more rewarding and more significant reason to keep walking on the surface of this planet.
“The art of walking is a visual art where you acquire the ability to look at the world in a different way�. Wu Ming 2
A meandering the
walk through transforming workplace
The office is a type of “Lascaux Cave” where man collects the messages of his time and processes them to have more reasons and arguments rather than merely to have more money, more success or more personal fulfillment. However the most important thing is not to stand still. In the office it is far more important to move rather than remain stationary. This is why the landscape has always had a fundamental role in the creation of the office. The office gives us the sense that we are a part of an ongoing evolution.
“Walking helps us to let go of our worries and concerns and to reattach the mind with the body”. Luca Gianotti
THE WALK
WHILE WALKING THE LANDASCAPE CHANGES CONTINUOUSLY
It’s more important the walk from the entrance to the desk, or from the meeting to the next meeting.
AREAS
FOUR DISTINCT WAYS OF BEING IN THE OFFICE
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THE CLUB
SOCIAL CONTACT & EXCHANGE
2
FREE MAN
INDIVIDUAL WORK AND TEAM WORK, SMALL MEETING ROOM
3 AGORÀ
CONFERENCE ROOM AND AUDITORIUM
4 LABORATORY
CREATIVE PROCESS & COMMUNICATION
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THE CLUB
SOCIAL CONTACT & EXCHANGE
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Where to feel like being in a hotel lobby
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Where to feel like being in an airline lounge
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Where to feel like being in a London club
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Where to feel like being in a golf club house
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Where to have a coffee
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Where to wait without loosing time
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Where to become unpredictable
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Where to meet unpredictable people
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Where to face unexpected topics
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Where to exercise your capability of improvisation
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Where to look for something you don’t know yet
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Where to listen to private conversations
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Where space is informal
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Where to look to other people
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Where to show yourself
1
THE CLUB
SOCIAL CONTACT & EXCHANGE
Thinking of the office not as a real but as a
estate communication platform.
2
FREE MAN
INDIVIDUAL WORK AND TEAM WORK, SMALL MEETING ROOMS ●
Where you feel like being in an urban environment
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Where to be alone
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Where to work within yourself
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Where you are not to be disturbed
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Where you don’t disturb
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Where to challenge the capability of being independent
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Where to explore who you really are
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Where to feel protected
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Where to feel isolated
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Where to look for intimacy
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Where intimacy becomes important
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Where to meet a person in private
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Where to look into somebody’s eyes
“Nothing like walking allows us to look so closely at reality”. Wu Ming 2
2
FREE MAN
INDIVIDUAL WORK AND TEAM WORK, SMALL MEETING ROOMS
The workspace must encourage and productivity demand.
The key to sucessful workspace is by giving them choices that allows
“mingling” that’s what creativity
to empower individuals control over their work environment.
3 AGORÀ
CONFERENCE ROOM AND AUDITORIUM
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Where you feel like being in a theater
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Where special events are organized
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Where to seat and receive information and stimuli
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Where to participate and exchange views
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Where to participate and meet with colleagues
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Where to hold a conference
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Where to attend a conference
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Where to talk to a public audience
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Where to listen to what people say
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Where to present your thoughts and ideas
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Where to get to know what people think
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Where to express yourself
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Where to know what is changing
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Where to feel a sense of community
3 AGORÀ
CONFERENCE ROOM AND AUDITORIUM
Balancing the natural rhythm with the need of private To play your role in the theatre of life.
“It is really important to plan
to collaborate concentration space.
accidental social interactions�. Sevil Peach
4 LABORATORY
CREATIVE PROCESS & COMMUNICATION
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Where the environment looks like a medieval village
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Where to create and to make documents
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Where to create and to make 3D representations and prototypes
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Where to create and to craft images
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Where to create softwares and applications
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Where to work with your hands
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Where to do and to learn
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Where to explore and invent
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Where to explore the use of tools and instruments
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Where to display tools and instruments
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Where to display your thoughts, ideas and creations
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Where everybody can be updated
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Where different processes create a community
4 LABORATORY
CREATIVE PROCESS & COMMUNICATION
Shifting the focus from “where
The workplace must inspire new relationships and
work is done” to “how it is done”.
forms of engagement, recognition.
CONNECTING WITH NATURE ●
Where you place your feet on the planet
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Where you hear the noise of the wildness
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Where you see the seasons change
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Where you feel the day passing by
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Where you can be conscious about what we have
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Where you recognize the beauty of the universe
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Where to be bitten by mosquitos
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Where to smell flowers
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Where to water small plants
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Where to see a seed become a tomato
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Where to see the effects of hybridization
Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature.
The concept of Permaculture works very well when applied to agriculture, but it works equally well when applied to human culture. The same effect of hybridization and contamination that we see in plants and animals in uncultivated brush happens in the thought and creativity in those areas that don’t fall directly under specific disciplines or categories of knowledge, and these uncultivated spaces, though perhaps ugly to look at (I would maintain that they’re no ugly at all!), are vibrant and rich. An office could be something along these lines, a space left deliberately uncultivated in order to make the most fertile seeds germinate.
COMPLICITY WITH ART ●
Where you look for different perspectives
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Where art stimulates all our senses
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Where art connects past, present, future
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Where art connects the natural and the technological
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Where everything looks different from every point
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Where art has no limits
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Where art connects people
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Where to challenge your imagination
“Who ever said that
pleasure wasn’t functional?” Charles Eames
THE BELVEDERE ●
Where to look at everything from an elevated point of view
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Where to put things into a different perspective
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Where to dream of new ideas
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Where to have unexpected encounters
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Where to look to afar
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Where to look back to where you have come from
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Where to look to where you are going
THE W
14 – 19 A Salone del Mobile
Where working is
WALK
April 2015 Fiera Milano, Rho
to look for a better life
Thank you
Project Michele De Lucchi Project director Nic Bewick Project team Davide Angeli Marco De Santi Francesco Garofoli Giovanna Latis Maddalena Molteni Greta Rosset Client Federlegno Arredo Eventi S.p.A. Location Salone del Mobile 2015, Rho Fiera, Milano Chronology 2014 - in progress
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