Innovation Redefined
Magic happened when a design team with a mix of fresh ideas and decades of experience refused to let an idea die even after some spectacular failures. The result of their persistence is a revolutionary new chair.
SILQ Talks: Can We Create Smart Materials?
SILQ Talks is a new platform to help celebrate and spread innovative ideas in the field of material science. Inspired by the innovative material, shape and construction of the SILQ chair, experts share their boundary-pushing ideas. Skylar Tibbits, founder and co-director, MIT Self-Assembly Lab, explains how he’s programming simple materials to be highly active and dynamic to change the way we create, design and make things. Explore more on SILQ Talks.
Accelerating Innovation
Over the past decade, India and China have evolved from outsourcing support nodes to leading global innovation hubs. With speed and agility never seen before, they have advanced their capabilities to position themselves as innovation leaders.
Design Story: Munich Learning + Innovation Center
The newest Learning and Innovation Center in Munich was designed to help people build networks with one another, facilitate learning and accelerate innovation. Members of the Steelcase Design Studio and design and architectural partners from Munich and Paris share how they worked together to create a space to support the new ways people work today. Read more in the Case Study.
Steelcase CEO: It’s a New Day
It’s time to create new ideas, be agile and make things happen faster than ever. In order for organizations to grow, people and teams must work in new ways. Steelcase president and CEO Jim Keane shares new, innovative products, new partners and new technologies that are helping Steelcase rethink the office and create places where ideas flourish and people thrive.
SILQ’s Innovation + Artistry on Display at NeoCon
The innovation and artistry behind SILQ, a chair described as more organism than machine, was showcased at NeoCon 2018. James Ludwig, vice president of Global Design and Engineering, takes us through the exhibit and shares how the team behind SILQ continues to innovate to offer new options for the chair. (Now available: SILQ)
Predicting the Future of Work
The office you remember is gone. Chris Congdon, editor of 360 Magazine, explores the newest issue of 360 featuring Fast Forward: How artificial intelligence, smart data and the gig economy will transform the future of work. Plus, explore topics like data privacy, designing for Agile work and how to attract top talent by creating a great employee experience. Read more in Fast Forward.
It Started With A Fire
In this issue of 360 we are celebrating several innovations that solve problems in new ways. In fact, we got our start more than 100 years ago doing just that.
Choice Is the New Black
Steelcase’s vice president of Global Operations has some surprising things to say about the impacts of craft, data and technology on scale-based manufacturing.
Think Big and Fix Things
In the heart of Toronto, MaRS, an urban innovation hub, is helping entrepreneurs and startups achieve a higher level of impact.
A New Day at NeoCon 2018
Steelcase is signaling a new day in workplace design at NeoCon 2018, unveiling innovative new products, partnerships, an acquisition and compelling spaces.
Design Q+A: A New Steelcase Chicago WorkLife Experience
The designers behind the new Steelcase Chicago WorkLife experience share inspirations behind the redesign.