Business & Corporates
The risks of underthinking hybrid workplace models and what to do about them
The benefits of hybrid work models have been well articulated. Reduced real estate costs, happier employees, increased productivity. But are the benefits sustainable? There are a few questions you...
Why face-to-face collaboration is still important.
Whilst there are different forms of collaboration all require open and honest communication and sometimes you need to be present to ensure this happens. After the months of lock downs and social...
How to get your teams working in collaboration again
One of the biggest challenges facing employers in 2021 is how to get your teams working in collaboration again after the isolation of working from home. Covid-19 has forced employers to adapt due to...
Work From Home Risks – What you need to know.
While flexible work arrangements can lead to benefits at both organisation and individual level, there is emerging evidence that extensive work from home arrangements can lead to mental and physical...
Workplace Hygiene: New Hygiene Surface Whiteboards
Workplace hygiene has never been more important. Our innovative whiteboards makes work spaces safer by eliminating germs. Our new e3 Ceramic Steel Hygiene Surface whiteboard is ideal during COVID-19...
Are you missing your whiteboard?
Some of us may be missing your visual management board because of that chance it gives us get up, grab a pen and talk through and test ideas or problems with colleagues. Yet having something taken...
A New Logo
The knowledge of what it takes to drive collaboration supports our designs and helps inform our clients integrate their thinking for workspace design, process and systems and organisational culture....
Working Together Better
Did you know? Working in teams enables employees to be quicker and more effective in their work, as compared to people who work on projects on their own. Why So? Collaboration enables two...
Not all whiteboards are made equal…
Mobile whiteboards (vertical writing partitions) are essential element of open plan workspace, especially where your work methods require you to communicate ideas in both a visual format and in...
Learn how an Australian corporate created a flexible office space while reducing real estate costs
A flexible office space is just one of the positive outcomes this Melbourne based corporate has experienced with their new fitout and office layout. A total workplace change program has seen the...
Sitting is the new smoking | Activity Based Working
Activity Based Working is a win/win for business and workers. You are no doubt aware that sitting for prolonged periods of time is not good for your health. But are you aware of the business...
What is an ‘Agile’ environment?
Have you noticed that the word 'Agile' is being used a lot these days? It seems to be the ‘shiny new' term. But different people mean very different things when they use 'agile' in the context of...
Education & Government
University – Incubators of Innovation
Incubators of Innovation Universities can be incubators for innovation and the next wave of entrepreneurs if and when they enable collaboration. It was clear that UTS working with architects -...
Ezy VM (Visual Management)
The most exciting thing to happen to fixed wall whiteboards in decades? Since Collaborative Design started, we have been advocating the benefits of flexibility and vertical working. This has led to...
The importance of Co-design in Change
An interesting insight from child psychologist Dr. Sophie Banfield. Dr Sophie Banfield is a clinical psychologist working with children and adolescents. Sophie specialises in assessment and...
UBS, India
I recently visited Mumbai, India to talk to architects and designers about the impact that Design Thinking and Agile PM is having on workspace. What is amazing about this place is the scale, the...
Learn how an Australian corporate created a flexible office space while reducing real estate costs
A flexible office space is just one of the positive outcomes this Melbourne based corporate has experienced with their new fitout and office layout. A total workplace change program has seen the...
How to choose visual management tools
When it comes to choosing visual management tools it's the little things that matter most. When making your next purchase decision on how to support your visual management needs, please remember...
How to create truly effective working environments.
Collaborative and innovative working spaces increase productivity and creativity, improve learning outcomes and foster innovation. Better Spaces. Better Outcomes. Collaborative Design Space will...
An Introduction To Work Walls
Once you've experienced the flexibility, effectiveness and style of a work wall system you'll never purchase another whiteboard. Until recently, work walls have been a specialist product found only...
Product News & Updates
Workplace Hygiene: New Hygiene Surface Whiteboards
Workplace hygiene has never been more important. Our innovative whiteboards makes work spaces safer by eliminating germs. Our new e3 Ceramic Steel Hygiene Surface whiteboard is ideal during COVID-19...
Start thinking like a designer when flexing your workplace design
Right now a lot of businesses are in survival mode, so decisions outside the immediate needs are not a priority. But what if the question isn’t how you survive but what do you need to do to thrive?...
Adjusting to life and work after Iso
Social readjustment after isolating times A recent New York Times article has reminded me that humans have been in isolated situations before and have lessons to share with us now. Experiences from...
Unravelling the impacts of working from home
Over the past few months, I have been thinking about the challenge’s businesses have in operating under Covid restrictions. For those that read this and live in Melbourne, you will now know Premier...
From constraints comes opportunity
I’m often hearing the screams of no more zoom meetings! How it’s sapping our lifeblood. But technology and challenges can fire up possibilities previously overlooked. In my design thinking...
Why is learning so good for us?
As Covid-19 restricted my business, I decided to undertake the Advanced Diploma in Design Thinking and Innovation delivered by MIT, Columbia Business School and Tuck Business School. Not only am I...
Working from Home
Working from Home is getting a lot of coverage at the moment but most of the conversation is about the difference it makes to our working lives. Some love it, some hate and some sit in the middle....
Why Workwalls
“Most corporate buildings don’t do a good job of supporting collaboration, brainstorming, and innovative work methods. They tend to be dominated by cubicles or offices which are suited for...
A New Logo
The knowledge of what it takes to drive collaboration supports our designs and helps inform our clients integrate their thinking for workspace design, process and systems and organisational culture....
Improving Employee engagement through collaboration
From fighting taboo to changing your workspace collaboration is key to improving employee engagement, creativity and productivity. Here Solutions(www.here.com) a global leader in digital technology...
Not all whiteboards are made equal…
Mobile whiteboards (vertical writing partitions) are essential element of open plan workspace, especially where your work methods require you to communicate ideas in both a visual format and in...
We’ve sharpened the pencil on Clarus go! Mobile
For the last two years Collaborative Design have represented Clarus glass whiteboards in Australia and in more recent times Singapore. The history of our relationship is born out of our love for the...
Client Education: Understanding different whiteboard surfaces
Choosing a whiteboard: surface quality is critical Article Summary: When it comes to whiteboard surface, the User Experience will become less enjoyable the longer you use products with surfaces...
3 things to steal from Agile working.
In the continuous search for competitive edge, new organisational designs that are being explored, implemented and challenged. What’s interesting is most of these aim to put more control in...
How to create truly effective working environments.
Collaborative and innovative working spaces increase productivity and creativity, improve learning outcomes and foster innovation. Better Spaces. Better Outcomes. Collaborative Design Space will...
Six reasons why mobile Work Walls are better than Whiteboards.
Mobile whiteboards are a common item used in business and learning environments - yet they are obsolete! In much the same way as the Thermomix is a multi-functional tool for your home, integrating...
Ceramic Steel – world’s best marker board surface.
Collaborative Design Space's range of work walls are made of the best material for writing on, ceramic steel. Our unique Y? System is made from Polyvison e3 ceramic steel. Ceramic steel writing...
Clarus Glassboards wins Interior Design Best of Year.
Clarus go! has won the 2014 “Best of NeoCon for Innovation” by Contract Magazine and 2013 “Best of Year” from Interior Design Magazine. Clarus go! Mobile combines the Clarus commitment to glass...