Collaborative Spaces at Work

9 From coworkers to friends

How does the aesthetic experience of third places affect the creative process

Federica De Molli and Donatella De Paoli

Introduction

It was a July afternoon, I was at the Tallinn airport, in Estonia, where I came to attend a conference. I still had a couple of hours before my plane took me home, so I was looking for a quiet place to relax. As I looked around, I saw a colleague from Norway sitting at a bar table and working on the computer. I stopped to say hallo and we talked about some interesting data she was collecting in Northern Europe, which prompted the idea of working on the research together. This episode narrated by the first author illustrates how the idea of the study presented in this chapter was born: ...