Swayn Open Research
The Alastair Swayn Foundation is committed to information sharing and transparency of the research it funds. We believe that research supported by the Foundation should be made discoverable and readily accessible online. The Swayn Open Research repository provides a place for researchers to promptly have their findings published on an open access basis, to benefit the architecture and design community.
Pathways Towards Inclusion: First Nations’ Principles (Sharing, Making and Kinship in Australian Workplace)
This research investigates Indigenous approaches to working; collaboration in working environments, and the structure of working organisations in themselves to define a set of preliminary principles to encourage the next evolution of Australian workplace design and practice.
Supporting Social-Capital in an Omni-Channel Workforce: Findings from an adaptive workplace pilot
This case study reports findings from Mirvac’s Adaptive Workplace Pilot, an experimental work floor within the company’s Sydney CBD office designed to test spaces and tools most effective in supporting seamless hybrid work. The pilot targeted challenges of human connection, knowledge exchange, and community in a hybrid workforce, with observations, focus groups and utilisation measurements conducted from May to September 2022.
Workplace Plasticity: Furnishing the Net-Zero Office through Robotic Fabrication
The high turnover of Australia’s commercial office space represents an often overlooked component of the built environment’s ecological footprint. Drawing upon circular-design strategies, Workplace Plasticity offers an approach to the design and fabrication of common workplace elements using recyclable Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol (PETG) plastic.
New Ways of Working (NWOW) Beyond COVID-19: With Special Reference to the Activity Based Workplace (ABW)
COVID-19 has challenged the whole world to fundamentally re-think about their lifestyles in leading towards an ‘unpredictable’ future.