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Ikea’s Innovation Lab Offers Peak at Future Living
November 24,
2015 by in Furniture Retailing, Industry 
Ikea uses an open-source design lab in Copenhagen to help the international retailer come up with furniture designs for decades to come.
Ikea usually keeps a close lid on what it is working on next. But with Space10, an innovation lab recently opened in Copenhagen's hip meatpacking district, Ikea is looking to change all that. The Swedish furniture giant is throwing the doors wide open to progressive thinkers who want to help solve the next couple decades' biggest home design problems, all on Ikea's dime.
Located in a fishery building redeveloped by architecture studio Spacon & X in Scandinavia's arguable design capital, Space10 almost feels like Ikea's answer to the artist-in-residence programs you see at companies like Autodesk and Microsoft, but with a typically Scandinavian twist: it's independent of Ikea.
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Source: Fast Company