The pandemic and working from home has brought into stark relief the evolving dynamics of the workplace, including changes around how space is built and utilized and the importance of creating collaborative working environments that maintain the conscience and mission of an organization. Marijke A. Smit, Principal at San Francisco architecture strategy firm MKThink, talks about why intelligent space planning is so important, particularly now, for the user experience and meeting organizational goals.

Marijke Smit leads MKThink’s work in human performance, helping clients like GGU solve complex problems about their built environment while optimizing learning outcomes in the education and workplace spheres. Trained in history and urban planning at Columbia University, her 25 year careers has focused on uncovering the nexus between people, place, and programs using data-driven insights to inform better decision making. For the past year and a half, Marijke’s work has focused around leveraging the seismic shifts caused by the pandemic towards achieving long-termer term organizational goals and objectives. She has been working with GGU specifically to help optimize space on campus in support of student and staff experience within a post-pandemic paradigm.

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