Gen Z (30)

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  ThinkLab's Meeting of Design Minds Yields Findings on Gen Z

  … believe that by studying the newest entrants to our industry, we can uncover “arrows to our future” in the data, helping us understand this generation whose behavior in the workplace will bring about a ripple-up effect on how all of us work. For the latest and to view the hackathon keynote, visit ThinkLab …

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  What Is Gen Z Looking for in the Workplace?

  … “walk the walk.” · Be ready for their fearlessness around transparency, including salary. If you are selling to Gen Z architects and designers: · Gen Z is looking for the right balance of in-person and digital experiences. · They expect engagement on multiple fronts and the same authenticity from their brands as they do from their …

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  To Attract Gen-Z Customers, One Firm Reimagines Retail as Theater

  … architecture, urbanism, design, and sustainability. Projects3 Adaptive Reuse Projects Prioritize Flexibility for the FutureThe bigger challenge in preserving historically significant buildings isn’t in giving them a second life—it’s preparing them for later reincarnations.

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  Designing for Gen Z and Beyond

  … several groups drawing on breakthrough research, tools, and sourcing systems to change building-material reuse.Products10 Architecture and Design Books Worth Adding to Your Reading ListMETROPOLIS rounds up the best new books on architecture, urbanism, design, and sustainability. Projects3 Adaptive Reuse Projects Prioritize Flexibility for the FutureThe bigger challenge in preserving historically significant buildings …

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  Designing for Gen Z and Beyond

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  Carbon and Your Client’s Workforce

  … wellness and health, improve engagement, and lower absenteeism. (Dig deeper with the Healthy Building Network’s Bill Walsh in this video from METROPOLIS’s 2021 Perspective symposium) Gen-Z Recruitment A 2023 KPMG survey found that 20 percent of Gen Z job seekers rejected offers from companies that didn’t seem aligned with their own …

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  Carbon and Your Client’s Brand

  … and customers: 8 out of 10 consumers are purchasing in alignment with sustainability practices today, and companies with tangible sustainability metrics have an advantage. Many millennial and Gen Z Americans support climate action, across the political spectrum. Quantify a Positive Impact Lowering a company’s carbon footprint offers it a transparent, tangible, and measurable way …

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  Design Optimism Talks: Unlocking the Potential of Immersive Technology

  … and film dovetailed perfectly, taking me down a path toward VR and immersive technology.” Adipat Virdi, Global Immersive Strategist Today, he is sharply focused on future consumers—Gen Z and Gen Alpha. “They’re the next generations who will have disposable incomes,” he said, “and they demand new ways of consuming content. Instead of ‘buying …

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  Lana Del Rey’s Music Has Always Taken Architecture Very Seriously

  … s atmospheric music and architectural visuals are the perfect subjects for this phenomenon. "Her repertoire is at once an exercise in memory and a book representing the lives she yearns for." Lana Del Rey’s music, popular among both millennials and Gen Z, is known for her assorted references to a lost time. Her songs,

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  Products

  Flos's Bilboquet Table Lamp Is Radical in its Simplicity

  … heart of the design, is finished with a surface treatment called physical vapor deposition rather than the typical anticorrosive galvanic coating. Both the metal cylinder that holds the LED and the bioplastic base come in the Gen Z– and millennial-friendly colors of Linen, Tomato, and Sage—hues that are intrinsic to the material, and