Clever Digs: How Workspaces Can Enable Thought

Imagine. What if our physical workspaces—the specific arrangements of walls and halls, sizes and shapes of rooms—were actually making us smarter or duller, enabling or disabling our individual and collective ability to think? What if a more astute crafting of professional habitats led to a greater ease in dealing with current tasks and a more adept foreshadowing of future ones? What if clever digs allowed us to learn more readily, learn from others, and help others learn? They can. This is the grand story I tell.