Engineering Serendipity: Collaboration and Creativity in the Architecture of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley workplaces are renowned for their creativity and productivity. Drawing on extensive research into tech giants like Alphabet (Google), Apple, and Meta (Facebook), Claude Dutson will explore the lessons gleaned from their architecture, design, and local infrastructure. These tech campuses prioritise personal fulfilment within company missions, fostering employee potential and well-being, and their architecture facilitates team connectivity, and serendipitous encounters. Dutson will also examine how these campuses reshape urban environments and work practices, potentially triggering significant social and economic shifts, and show how some ideas are already being implemented beyond Silicon Valley.