In Aristotelian ethics, Eudaimonia is the condition of peak human flourishing or living well.

And for many of us, working in beige, open-plan offices or ecru cubicle farms sets the scene perfectly for us feeling the exact opposite!

So if you’ve got the golden opportunity of designing an office from scratch, really nailing down the physical environment can ensure that conditions are genuinely conducive to producing excellent work and contributing to good mental and physical health.

The architectural concept of the Eudaimonia Machine was developed by Professor David Dewane and it posits that the perfect office comprises a linear series of rooms which we move through while gradually entering more focused mental states associated with different tasks, until finally reaching the environment associated with ‘deep work’.…