Don’t Fence Me In: A NeoCon Presentation by Gensler Houston

by Mallory Budy | July 3rd, 2017

As our readers are well aware, we closely follow the workplace strategy efforts of Gensler Houston’s Sven Govaars and Dean Strombom, who have presented at what is now seven years of NeoCon. The pair presented their most current workplace strategy research in a NeoCon 2017 presentation titled “Don’t Fence Me In.” In case you missed it, we published a pre-NeoCon catch-up feature just before the show this year that included a brief summary of each of their presentations; check it out here. In “Don’t Fence Me In,” Messrs. Govaars and Strombom explore the limitations we experience in the workplace, the nature of choice – how we make choices, and providing choices versus providing the right choices – and how we can use the Internet of Things to accomplish that. And the root that they kept coming back to was the experience a space provides. “Engagement is what the organization is …