主播：Evodia Alaterou，Hassell董事
嘉宾：Andrew Weston教授，墨尔本工程学院基础设施工程部
“如果给人们自主权，那么相较于必须完成的任务，他们可能会得出更好的解决方案。”
— Andrew Weston
墨尔本工程学院的院长勇敢无畏，要求对学术和研究人员的全新工作方式进行测试。
然而，墨尔本大学工程学院也正是这么做的。
到2025年，墨尔本大学工程学院（MSE）的三个分院未来的办公空间需要容纳1800多名学术研究人员。
为了满足他们和行业协作方的需求，墨尔本大学工程学院的办公空间需要改头换面。
预计到未来的办公方式将面临挑战，学校委托开展了名为“空间实验室”的办公空间试点研究。在研究中，在现实的实验室中工作的“研究人员”成为了“研究对象”。
空间实验室在空间内尝试了开间格局和可移动的工作台，以提升生产力和促进互动、协作和参与。
该研究在12月的时间内观察了120多名学者、研究人员、专业人员、支持人员和高等学位学生。每个列队都提供了实时的反馈，这些反馈也直接地纳入了下一轮的研究对象的研究。
那么他们到底从研究中了解到了什么？董事Evodia Alaterou邀请了墨尔本工程学院基础设施工程部的Andrew Western教授和大家聊一聊这个实验研究。Western教授也是基建项目的负责人，探索试点办公空间会如何逐渐地改变（几乎）所有用户的认知，以及在试点中为何尽可能地“突破”现状是多么重要。
*播客语言为英语。
Space lab: Solving the 'problem' with academic workplace
Host: Evodia Alaterou, Hassell Principal
Guest: Professor Andrew Western, Melbourne School of Engineering University of Melbourne
"If you give people autonomy they'll probably find a better solution than what you were going to impose on them."
Professor Andrew Western
It’s a brave dean that tests out a new way of working on academics and research staff.
And yet that’s exactly what the School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne did.
The future workspace at the Melbourne School of Engineering (MSE) will need to accommodate over 1800 users across three locations by 2025.
To provide for its people and its industry collaborators – its workplace would need to become quite different.
Anticipating the challenge that comes with a new way of working, the school commissioned a pilot workplace study called 'Space Lab' – a reference to a living lab, where ‘researcher’ becomes the ‘researched’.
Space Lab experimented with open plan and non-assigned desks in spaces designed to encourage productivity, interaction, collaboration and engagement.
More than 120 academics, researchers, professional staff, support staff and higher degree students were regularly observed over a 12 month period. Each cohort provided real time feedback, which was immediately incorporated into the next round of occupancy.
So what did they learn? Principal Evodia Alaterou invited MSE’s Professor Andrew Western from the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in to step through the experiment. Professor Western, who is also the director of the Infrastructure program, explored how the pilot workspace gradually changed the perceptions of (almost) all its users, and why it’s important to ‘break’ as many things as you can in a pilot.
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