This project is not about being futuristic, rather, it is about how we can prepare ourselves for the future and how we can move workplace design into the future.
Since COVID-19, workplaces have fundamentally changed, with many staff working from home part-time or even full-time. This poses challenges to workplace community culture, company culture, and philosophy. Humans are becoming more secluded and ‘alone’, our collective mental well-being becomes a bigger problem in society every day, and isolation is one of the issues contributing to that. AI will be taking over many jobs in the future, too, so offices will constantly need to adjust in size, grow and shrink, adjust, and repeat. Climate change is real, it’s here and needs to be responded to now if we want to be able to work and live in the future at all.
These are some of the main challenges that we are facing and that we have been discussing in our team when considering workplace design into the future. The briefing for this project fell right into this category.