Book launch "Traumfabriken"

How should a building be designed to create real innovation?

In his essay “Der Innovation Raum geben” (Creating Spaces for Innovation), featured in the newly released photo book "Traumfabriken" (Dream factories), architect Gunter Henn explores the architectural environments needed to unlock the inspiring potential of physical space. He sees architecture’s role as the strategic shaping of environments where people from diverse disciplines interact – where perspectives and ways of thinking collide. It is from this social process that innovation emerges.

"Opening up the space and making it transparent towards the inside creates interstitial spaces in which collaborative workflows unfold. Undiscovered talent is drawn to these spaces. The innovation process is given its distinct place that does not dissolve the spaces assigned to specialist departments. Rather, it is separate from them in organizational and cultural terms." Gunter Henn, Traumfabriken (S. 44)

Edited by Olaf Salié and Hartmut Rauen, "Traumfabriken" is dedicated to the architecture of production and showcases 25 exemplary manufacturing sites across the DACH region. Through projects such as HENN’s Wittenstein Innovation Factory, Brunner Innovation Factory, and the Mercedes-Benz Factory 56, the book illustrates how architecture, work, sustainability, and digitalization are becoming increasingly interwoven.

Traumfabriken is now available in bookstores.