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Werner-von-Siemens Centre: Experimental Space for New Ways of Working at the Intersection of Science and Business Siemensstadt Square

19/9/2024

The Werner-von-Siemens Centre is a non-profit association at the Zukunftsort Siemensstadt Square. Here, the association, its members, and partners work together on research projects to shape the future of the work environment, among other things.

Topics include digital twins, human-robot collaboration, and the know-how for handling completely new materials.

Werner-von-Siemens Centre: Experimental Space for New Ways of Working at the Intersection of Science and Business Siemensstadt SquareImage: WvSC

The employees in the projects come from a wide range of backgrounds: professors, managing directors, designers, programmers, workers, and students work hand in hand and are themselves faced with the challenge of having to learn something new about the working world of the future every day. The employees are exposed to a high rate of change themselves and are at the forefront of the transformation of the working world.

Werner-von-Siemens Centre: Experimental space for the future of the working world, where interdisciplinary teams from science and industry research and test innovative methods and technologies such as digital twins and human-robot collaboration. | Zukunftsort Siemensstadt Square

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Methodological Support and Experimentation Spaces

This is both fun and a challenge. This is why the WvSC team develops and tests methods to support research projects. Some examples of this are:

  • Peer Learning: Knowledge is created faster today than the traditional training market can translate it into offers (driven, among other things, by technologies such as generative AI). Often, some individual employees are well-informed about an innovative topic and are willing to share their knowledge – or teams decide to explore a new topic together. At WvSC, we consciously enable people to share their knowledge.
  • The WvSC project manager meeting is a special format of peer learning, i.e., learning from each other. At the meeting, project managers from the WvSC project ecosystem exchange best practices in project management.
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Whenever possible, we involve not only researchers in our projects but also employees from areas such as production, logistics, or HR. This way, non-researchers also gain first-hand knowledge about the future of the work environment. In this way, we enable the emergence of spaces for discussion and ideas about the future of the work environment.
  • Agile Working: Using methods from the toolbox of agile working, we enable a way of working that does justice to the high speed of change. In doing so, it is essential for us to use methods that ensure early feedback from future users in research.

We believe that by providing methodical support and low-threshold integration of people from diverse backgrounds, we are shaping the future of work by making it tangible today. You are welcome to visit one of our public events and help us shape the working world of tomorrow!

The following projects in the WvSC ecosystem are mainly concerned with the working environment of tomorrow:

 

We will report in more detail on individual projects during the #Zukunftsorte campaign and provide further insights into the design of tomorrow’s working environment.