The Digital Renaissance of Work

Chapter 2 The Human-Centred Digital Workplace

 

The more living patterns there are in a room, the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has this self-maintaining fire.

Christopher Alexander, author The Timeless Way of Building¹

So what about the nature of the new digital worlds in which we spend so much of our working days? As work is liberated, we are increasingly subject to the texture and quality of the digital spaces we inhabit for large parts of each day. So how are we faring? Let’s start from what we are familiar with and compare the digital world with the physical realm we know so well.

We are all attached to our homes. Often these are houses and apartments we have carefully chosen because they attract ...