The theatre of work - Clive Wilkinson

The modern workplace has evolved from a dehumanized cubicle landscape to space designed for intelligent
human life. While utility and amenity are vastly improved, wh at advances have been made in building truly
creative communities that spark creativity, knowledge sharing and collaboration? Is the 21st century office
performing at peak?
Clive Wilkinson - The Theatre of Work proposes an intensified relationship between
office
users and the space they occupy. The new workspace should amplify and celebrate the activity of work and of
human community, and in the process, becoming vital and compelling
Theatre.

In defining this new landscape, the author examines global devel opments in workplace thinking, historical
antecedents, the performance touch-points for the new office, and
proposes seven humanistic principles that will
inform a holistic design process that can bring this concept of Theatre to fruition. Each of these principles is
demonstrated through case studies of the work of his renowned design studio, Clive Wilkinson Architects (CWA), with rich iconography, diagrammatic strategy and contextual ingenuity. The outcome of this process, with its
multiple performative la yers, effectively promotes elevating a corporate brief of basic needs and goals to a
profoundly human-centred presentation of 'work as theatre' .