We met people in different kinds of open spaces in Oslo, Marseille, Paris, Amsterdam who shared their thoughts, needs and rituals within their co-working spaces. We tested the first ideas of the Murmur with simple models in co-working spaces in Oslo and Marseille. Out of the observations and feedbacks we discovered three major insights: Living modular rooms give the experience of a new space. Nature and randomness brings life and value to rooms. Visual confidentiality and echo sound-absorption provide privacy and social distancing, in open spaces.

Beginning 2017, we tested the first ideas of the Murmur with simple models in co-working spaces in Oslo and Marseille. Out of the observations and feedbacks we discovered three major insights: Living modular rooms give the experience of a new space. Nature and randomness brings life and value to rooms. Visual confidentiality and echo sound-absorption provide a needed privacy in open spaces.

From the immersive process, point-of-views where extracted, like: "an engaged Community Manager who had a former unfulfilling career, is busy juggling the daily space management with anticipating future content, needs changeable rooms and big light furniture that doesn't get lost, store away without taking space and effortlessly adapt and bring value to any type of event and member, because a successful co-working space is one that is alive and experienced as a new space from one hour to the next, at the same time as it provides individual privacy."

Based on those conclusions, we tested several scenarios and the essence was integrated in MurMur, an extension of ourself in spaces, protecting your thoughts and activities visually and offering a more serene acoustic environment, in any space or situation.

Murmur is enhancing the visual confidentiality requested by people. It also includes the most healthy collection of materials, with Norwegian regional wool fabric, solid ash wood, and a design principle allowing anybody to fix and upgrade Murmur on its own way. The handles to move the Murmur also serves as hangers, hiding bags and jackets within. The pattern for the textile is open source so that it can be tailored with local materials and patterns so that each can get its own personality and adapt to the interior it is used in.