I know someone who worked at a company that had no assigned work area: employees would come in and claim a free desk, and I think they went so far as to frown upon someone claiming the same desk every day. It's one thing to let people self-organize, but to frown on people for self-organizing the "wrong" way seems wrong to me.
One of the things I don't like about hotels is that it's expected that someone will come into your room every day to clean it. On the one hand it's nice that things get cleaned, but I don't like that it requires that someone intrude upon my private space every day.
A world where you spend your whole life a nomad with no territory you can claim as your own sounds fucking awful, and I will take no part in such a world.
The thing is, humans are possessive, territorial animals. Give schoolkids the choice to pick any desk, many of them will form their own preferences for a certain desk; the same goes for any other space (lunch tables, bar stools, etc). See, her choice of language in that article even tells on herself as such an animal.
But that's the thing, their philosophies hinge on the entire denial of the human animal even existing. The human is just a construct, see.
I know someone who worked at a company that had no assigned work area: employees would come in and claim a free desk, and I think they went so far as to frown upon someone claiming the same desk every day. It's one thing to let people self-organize, but to frown on people for self-organizing the "wrong" way seems wrong to me.
One of the things I don't like about hotels is that it's expected that someone will come into your room every day to clean it. On the one hand it's nice that things get cleaned, but I don't like that it requires that someone intrude upon my private space every day.
A world where you spend your whole life a nomad with no territory you can claim as your own sounds fucking awful, and I will take no part in such a world.
The thing is, humans are possessive, territorial animals. Give schoolkids the choice to pick any desk, many of them will form their own preferences for a certain desk; the same goes for any other space (lunch tables, bar stools, etc). See, her choice of language in that article even tells on herself as such an animal.
But that's the thing, their philosophies hinge on the entire denial of the human animal even existing. The human is just a construct, see.