SV: Opening space in my home-office

[Thomas Herrmann]

Dear Bernd
Thanks for sharing the work you are doing to find your Open Space office,
Bernd. Interesting!
Thanks Harrison for sharing the offices you´ve moved around, the porch and
the boats sound like quite some offices to me!

So far the Feng Shui recommendations have not helped too much. Right now my
office looks like "open space" - nothingness - with a desk in the center
(it´s one of those that you can sit and/or stand at - too heavey to take
out). I cleared everything else out, even taken the old wallpaper down. Next
step is to paint the ceiling and the the door, then new wall-paper. I got
some recommendations regarding colors and to encompass the five elements in
my office and how to place the furniture, lights, plants as well as some
specific recommendations regarding my particular room.

I´m pretty new to Feng Shui but I think that it will add to keeping the
energy level fine, as I do spend some time there (right now sitting in our
living-room.

I had a look on the Internet, there are lots of sites about Feng Shui, one
pretty informative although a bit commercialized is at
www.fengshuicrazy.com/ lots of articles are gathered at
http://fengshuiarticles.com/

I will work on keeping the space open and let you know how it goes, when
I´ve come a bit further.
Kind regards
Thomas Herrmann
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  Dear Thomas,

  I did not apply the Feng Shui concept, but applied what I have learned
from "visual moderation/facilitation" (visualization tools like moveable
flip charts and Pin-boards markers and all that stuff) ready at each of the
3 possible "outbreak places" in my office (the space is limited of course).
And I applied what I learned from the the "Lernwerkstatt" (that would be
"learning workshop"), which is a concept and practice in the education
sector: make lots of creative material "visually acessible". And a
coffe-machine... ;-) not so new, is it?

  I am not really "working on it", but whenever I get an idea or come across
something which helps to make the office flexible and creative, I do it.
  As far as I see it, we have just to apply what we recommend our clients,
when the "room" question arises (light, space, good climate, breakout
opportunities, material,...)

  Or am I wrong?

  Thomas, please tell us, which of the Feng Shui recommendations helped you
for the "OS office" because I suppose, some of them should become part of
our recommendations regarding the (physical) Spare for our clients' OS
activities.
  Bernd

  Am Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:43:05 +0200, schrieb Thomas Herrmann:
  ...
  > I started to think about how an OS-office looks like. I want it to
  > be a creative space instead of a storage space with a desk.
  > Yesterday I had a Feng Shui consultant visiting me. I got lots of
  > ideas from that and now I am in the midst of taring the old
  > wallpaper down. It will be a quite different office when I´m ready.
  > I will let you know how it goes.
  >
  > Anyone else out there who already has his/her OS-office or is
  > working on it? Warmest regards

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