Open AccessProduct Review: Steelcase Brody
Author(s) -
Sandra Standish
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of the canadian health libraries association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1708-6892
DOI - 10.29173/jchla29453
Subject(s) - product (mathematics) , balance (ability) , productivity , workspace , business , quiet , marketing , computer science , psychology , economics , mathematics , economic growth , artificial intelligence , geometry , neuroscience , robot , physics , quantum mechanics
As libraries are renovated to create more flexible spaces for collaboration and for new services, research shows that productivity can decline in open format workspaces. Often libraries are trying to find a balance in the same room between loud, group spaces and quiet, individual study. The Steelcase Furniture Company has created the Brody model to fit this dichotomy.