Cooperative buildings

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This volume presents the proceedings from the First International Workshop on Cooperative Buildings (CoBuild’98), held in Darmstadt, Germany, on February 25–26, 1998. The workshop emerged from the consortium “Workspaces of the Future,” aimed at fostering interdisciplinary R&D collaborations with industry partners. It became clear that a dedicated forum was needed to explore research at the intersection of information technology, organizational innovation, and architecture. The theme “Integrating information, organization, and architecture” addresses the challenges posed by evolving dynamics in these fields. Future work and collaboration will demand unprecedented levels of flexibility and mobility, surpassing current practices. While information and communication technology has significantly altered work processes, the design of physical workspaces, such as offices and buildings, has largely remained static. This calls for a reevaluation of how work environments are designed to reflect the need for dynamic, flexible, and mobile settings. The contributions in this volume highlight the interdisciplinary nature of this challenge, emphasizing the importance of diverse perspectives and insights from various research and practice domains.