Thomas Fundneider

On June 7, the Digital October center hosted a lecture by Thomas Fundneider, the founder and general director of the company LivingCore and a member of the committee of the Austrian filial of PDMA — the largest organization in the world supporting innovations of all possible types and new product development.

Fundneider’s areas of interests are strategies, innovations, and landscape architecture. His love of details in design is combined with a structured and strict method of work that he has developed managing several technological projects. In addition, Thomas Fundneider and Professor Marcus Peschl of the University of Vienna have together developed a theory of how space influences a person’s consciousness. A series of structures have been designed based on their work, including the elite Zeppelin University and a smart office environment for a global bank. theLivingCore works intensely with the architectural bureau Camenzind Evolution, who designed several Google offices (Zurich, Moscow, Stockholm).

LivingCore designs working space for business and innovative processes and brings it into reality. Regarding an office not as a “place where you sit” but as a platform that enables the development of the effectiveness and creativity of staff, the company is working out projects of innovative cities that will find realization in Russia in the near future. The heads and staff of LivingCore look at architectural space not as something merely physical, but rather as a combination of a number of aspects: social, cognitive, emotional, technological, and others. A harmonious combination of these aspects allows a system to be created that cultivates and supports creative processes, exchange of knowledge, and the birth of new ideas.

Thomas Fundneider told to Knowledge Stream’s guests about modern architectural methods of creating space that brought together the basic aspects of human life and gave examples of using this approach in LivingCore’s practice.