Steelcase today launches a year-long celebration of its 100th anniversary, and its reinvention as a globally integrated enterprise, focused on the future of work. Known as the long-time leader of the office furniture industry, the company has thrived for a century not only because of its products and manufacturing strength, but because of its core commitment to people at work and its human-centered approach to innovation and design.
“From the start, our company has been about more than furniture,” said James Hackett, CEO of Steelcase Inc. “We have always focused on people and what people can do. Companies don’t survive for a century – ideas do. So as we turn 100 years old we want to take this opportunity to look out into the future and see all the things that make us optimistic. We see a future full of limitless possibilities.”
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Steelcase Education Solutions launches today a first-of-its-kind table-based collection of classroom furniture, Verb™, and enhances its active learning chair, Node®, to college and university planners at SCUP’s 47th Annual International Conference & Idea Marketplace at Hyatt Regency Chicago. These award-winning solutions keep students and instructors collaborating and engaged.
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Steelcase today unveils concept spaces and technology at NeoCon 2012 that will optimize video interactions at work, create an intuitive, dynamic and natural video experience, and will address key barriers, such as light and sound quality, and privacy. These new concepts are in response to an emerging behavior Steelcase research identified: people living on video.
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Marriott Hotels & Resorts, the signature brand of Marriott International (NYSE:MAR), renowned for its expertise in hosting meetings, is “re-imagining” the traditional small meeting to become a collaborative work experience that will promote creativity and innovation. Inspired by the work styles of Gen X and Gen Y, Marriott Hotels & Resorts has exclusively partnered with Steelcase, the leader in workspace design, and launched today Workspring at Marriott. Redmond Marriott Town Center, near Seattle, is the first hotel to offer the small meetings suite.
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In celebration of its centennial anniversary this year, Steelcase is exploring the future of work by inviting leading thinkers to participate in a dialogue and dream about how work will change in the next 100 years. The kick-off will take place at TED this week where Steelcase unveils its anniversary theme “100 Dreams, 100 Minds, 100 Years.”
TED is about ideas worth sharing and encouraging others to dream. For years Steelcase has helped create the spaces that give TED attendees places to interact and collaborate. This year as the company celebrates its centennial anniversary, Steelcase invites TEDsters to participate in this dialogue, to dream and to think about the future of the world and work.
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Steelcase today launches Gesture, a new sitting experience, designed in response to the company’s latest research about changing postures in the workplace. The global study reveals how new technologies have led to nine new postures — not supported by current office chairs — which frequently cause pain and long-term injuries, disrupting concentration and creativity. The Gesture chair was inspired by studying the movement of the human body and created for the ways people work today.
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Steelcase today released findings from its workplace research on how the physical environment can support or hinder mindfulness, along with five other dimensions of wellbeing. The researchers found that the physical environment offers behavioral cues, that can promote -- or hinder -- employee’s physical, cognitive and emotional states and long-term health.
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The newest technological device may be one of the oldest architectural elements – the wall. Steelcase today launches V.I.A.™, vertical intelligent architecture, designed to create spaces that help fuel the innovation process. V.I.A. hosts the latest large-scale video and display technologies, offers unprecedented acoustic privacy, and easily reconfigures to support rapid change. It is being shown for the first time at NeoCon 2013 in Chicago June 10-12.
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