At Interface, we are convinced our modular flooring solutions have the power to move people. With the expertise of architects and designers, the floor can contribute to a space that lets its users thrive, letting them live, work, learn and regenerate. We think the health and happiness of a building’s user is a core responsibility of owners, architects, designers and business leaders – both from an ethical point of view, and because it’s good for business.
+Positive spaces™ are environments that have positive impacts. These impacts result from the attributes of the space and the people who use it. It’s important to understand that a space is not the same as a room. A space can be as small as a favourite seat in a library or as big as a city or even the whole planet. It can even be your favourite online hangout. Applying it to built space, it refers to the ability of an interior environment to provide a range of specific, spatial moments that offer people the choices, tools and permission to work as they see fit.
Design = optimism
In our experience, most designers are optimists. We believe we can design a better way. In the built environment, this is all about creating spaces that inspire and support people, accommodating their needs. We have been trusting our gut for ages when it comes to interior design, but in the last decades, the scientific knowledge on the effectiveness of spaces has become a source of definitive proof.
(dis)engagement
Historically, the people using a space could not find (or create) the environment they needed to do their work and feel good doing it. We went from the cubicle to the open office space, without realising that one-size-fits-all usually fits no one particularly well. A monolithic interior at either extreme ignores the data which says that we need some cube time, open collaboration time, private phone time, nap time and time to sit in the sun and daydream, all in the same day.