When planning an office design project, it is surprisingly common for businesses to neglect the design of their meeting rooms. After all, in a typical office building, meeting rooms are not in constant use and many facility managers take the approach that the room simply needs to be big enough to fit people in.
However, meeting rooms actually have an important function, which we sometimes overlook. Meeting rooms allow for collaborative learning. Indeed, we rarely retain information unless we socialise it in some way. And, meeting rooms provide the ideal location to socialise. So how can a well designed meeting room foster collaborative learning?