What is Creativity Room?

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

(In the name of Allah, most gracious, most merciful)

(What is Creativity Room?)

‘Creativity Room’ is one of my biggest achievements that I’m extremely proud of. I learnt from it very much in all stages such as planning, execution, running activities, working with team…etc. As I indicated in the last post, my objective from this blog is to share my personal experience from this room with others for the benefit of everyone.

What is Creativity Room? This question might be in mind of many people reading this blog. The pictures may indicate what this room is, but in reality, it is something different. The environment of the room is totally different from normal rooms; the design, the colors, the tools and the activities all support creativity.

To answer the question above, initially, it is important to know how the idea came to my mind. Actually, during the period in 2013, his Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (UAE Vice President, Prime Minister & Ruler of Dubai) launched something called (Creativity Lab) which was concentrating on conducting brainstorming sessions in a different environment. As a result, I thought about having something similar in our workplace but not limited to brainstorming sessions.

I provided the idea in the suggestion system and, at the same time, our department head had the same idea in mind.  Thus, the idea had full support and I was assigned to be the leader for establishing the room.

Note: One of the most important key success points for establishing the room was the leadership support and I will talk about it in coming posts.

The target was to establish a room with different environment than normal rooms so that employees will feel the difference when they enter the room. When I started searching in the internet to see if there are any similar ‘Creativity Rooms’ available in the world, I noticed that most companies which have creativity rooms are limiting it to meeting rooms. Moreover, the other place which was found to be closer to the concept of ‘Creativity Room’ was nurseries!!! It was really a challenge.

The different thing about creativity room which makes it distinguished – in my point of view – is that the room has specific objectives which are focused on Creative Thinking, Successful Team Work and Positive Energy.

Next post will elaborate more about these objectives. See you in the next post Insha’Allah :)