As a kind of advent calendar, I'm sharing the books that helped me write my upcoming book.

Day 1: Buildings and Power

#bookworm #research #books #innovation

Day 2: Visualisierung or an artists historic input in how to manage your damn cluster of post-its.

#research #wroteabook #innovation #books

Day 3: Managing Telework by @JackNilles1 which is still an insightful dive into #remoteworking

#research #wroteabook #innovation #books

Day 4: Sick Building Syndrome or how women in the workplace applied citizen science to make a case for crappy working conditions / HVAC.

Day 5: The Garage (which, not unlike tomato, I can never pronounce correctly) or the coopting of architectural features by corporate language. #wroteabook #innovation #books #research

Day 6: Laboratory Lifestyles which dissects the impact (if any) and implications of starchitecture on science research. #books #wroteabook #research #architecture #science

Day 7: The architecture of the RAND building in Santa Monica, their ways of designing for group interactions and the architectural that produced the Panama papers scandal.

#wroteabook #innovation #architecture #history #books

Day 8: the history of hot-desking & information management in your innovation department. #books #innovation #wroteabook #research #hotdesking #officelife

Day 9: the history of management-led productivity approaches, apps, delusions. #books #innovation #wroteabook #research #officelife

Day 10: a really readable general history of interior design in offices. I especially liked the bits about Knoll and the doomed Action Office which just became much-hated cubicles. #research #officelife #innovation #books #wroteabook

Day 11: when I talk about the fact that some books are only good for one little thing, but that's more than enough. Also, children on laptops lounging about uncomfortably. #books #research #wroteabook #innovation #interiors #architecture.

Day 12: one of my prized possessions, an internal report on 'office landscaping' by the Schnelle brothers in Germany post WWII. A mixture of computational art & furniture design. #wroteabook #research #books #infoviz #innovation #officelife

Day 13: a magazine this time, all about the desk in all its context: talk show desks, the president's desk and your desk at the office. #research #wroteabook #innovation #officelife

Day 14: The excellent critique of corporate language and habits by @andre_spicer

#research #wroteabook #innovation

Day 15: The excellent (if nostalgia-inducing) internal retrospective of Olivetti (1958). The pioneering employee benefits packages they offered in 1909, we struggle to offer at all today. #research #wroteabook #innovation

Day 16: because corporate innovation is an offshoot of the myth of the artist, I read up on recent failed and successful independent art schools. #research #books #wroteabook

Day 17: obscure architectural discourse on the role of business and how it shapes space is my favourite kind of discourse. #architecture #books #research #wroteabook #innovation

Day 18: when architecture meets facilities management and add a dose of 'colours have a meaning'. Not my favourite but I appreciated the approach. #research #wroteabook #innovation