Cooperative buildings—integrating information, organization and architecture

INTRODUCTION Future wor~ cooperation, and organizations wifl be charactetied by a high degree of dynamics, flexibility and mobtity — substantitiy more so than today. Rerdizing this god has profound implications for information and communication technology as u’e~ as architecture because virtual and physical spaces have to be designed in an integrated fashion in order to provide equtiy flexible cooperati~e work environments. The notion of “Cooperative Btidings” [q provides a tiework to focus and merge a number of currentiy SW pardel approaches and developments in ~erent disciplines contributing to tie design of the workspaces of the future. me purpose of this panel is to introdum the CSCW audience to a chdenging generation of new problems and issues which me Nely to shape research in CSCW and architwture in the foreseeable future. Cooperative Workplaces and Buildings Volker Hartkopf, Center for BuiHing Pe#o~ce and Diagnostics, Carnegie Melbn Unh’ersity, Pi~burgh, USA