Designing together & what origami has to do with it
The intensive, corona-related home office period is fortunately over again. Once again, the “new normality” of the working world is beginning, even for us in the CONENGA Group. Contrary to the resulting trend towards more working from home, we decided to move to a larger office last year. We are convinced that “designing together” is important. So much so that we want to give all team members the opportunity to do this in a shared office. 
Shaping together – for us: business as usual
As before Covid times, we work in an effective mix of office and home office. The “old world of work” was already dedicated to more flexible working – adapted to the needs and requirements of our employees and customers, so to speak.
A minimum of presence is decidedly desired at our company, and meeting and working together in the central office will continue to be an important part of our everyday work. In the home office, a lot of creativity and inspiration falls by the wayside and, in the long term, so does the company’s success. Here, our experience coincides with that of occupational psychologists that satisfaction and motivation decline and employees lose their emotional attachment to the company.
New insights and good prospects
On the contrary, returning to the office on a regular basis increases the well-being of our employees, making them more productive at home, too. Our new team members are finally getting to know their colleagues, and in the interpersonal exchange, innovative and creative ideas spontaneously emerge.
Over the last few weeks, the private hobby of our colleague Daniela Böck has resulted in a real “collaborative, hands-on origami installation” in our CONENGA Lab.
About Origami
The name origami comes from the Japanese language and combines the words “ori” for “fold” and “gami” for “paper”. Origami is the ancient and beautiful art of paper folding. The diverse designs, ease of learning, and minimal materials required make this particular art form a popular, decelerating, and grounding hobby.
Origami is strongly connected with mathematics and science. Thus, to this day, more and more complex folding methods have developed and today origami folding techniques can be found in the most diverse places (as an exciting example, space technology is mentioned here). In recent years, origami has also been increasingly revisited in art, and the talent and artwork of our colleague Daniela inspired us to create our own origami installation at CONENGA Lab.
Our “Create together origami hands-on installation”
During our first big team meeting in the new office, this was finally unveiled and finalized. Our CONENGA Group logo was produced by hand as a 3-D work of art using origami technology from square pieces of paper.
Many flowers and birds in a variety of colors and patterns strive in all directions. They symbolize the diversity & creativity in the team, in which individual idiosyncrasies are allowed and definitely desired. “Your own bird” – or perhaps more elegantly put, “your personal touch” – was actively involved in the creation and further development of this living work of art. Creating together, after all!