KUNNE Workplace focuses on new office solutions and new ways of working in knowledge intensive organisations. It is a user-driven project where researchers and organisations carry out developing processes when new office solutions are put to use together. Researchers and users collaborate on shaping new localities and new technological solutions. The starting point is always the work people in the organisation actually perform, and the need for new ways of doing this work in the organisation.

Scholars in the project also study what happens when the new localities are put to use. The target is to develop new and improved practice in the enterprise whilst continually reflecting and creating new research oriented knowledge. The initiative to the KUNNE Workplace is a collaboration between the departments Knowledge Work and Knowledge and Strategy in SINTEF Technology and Society, and Architecture and Building Technology in SINTEF Building and Infrastructure. The project is supported by the Research Council of Norway and several large Norwegian building owners and users. The project is conducted in the period 2003 – 2006.

Detailed information about the project as well as list of publications (mostly in Norwegian) you will find on the project web-site - KUNNE Workplace.

In the KB Library there is a paper, based on cases in the project, that explores the relationship between the business' goals, the briefing process and the final office design - "Boundary objects for design of knowledge workplaces". 

We invite you to read the article and express you opinion in discussion around what kind of boundaries influence mostly on knowledge workers productivity.