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Future of Work
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Programs
Six Regional Impacts on Workplace Design
What regional factors are influencing current commercial office designs? Metropolis convened a panel of experts to find out.
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Projects
House of Dentons’ Amsterdam Outpost Forges a New Outlook for Law Offices
With warm woods, casual meeting areas, and even an art gallery, the workplace reflects the shifting culture of a historically conservative profession.
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Viewpoints
As the Public Realm Merges With the Workplace, How Will Our Cities Change?
A report produced by WRNS Studio, edited and excerpted here, suggests how work culture could and should influence the fabric of our cities.
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Viewpoints
Vitra’s Raphael Gielgen Predicts Our Workplace Future
In conversation with our editors, Raphael Gielgen, head of research and trend scouting at Vitra, discusses how identity and technology will shape the offices of tomorrow.
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Viewpoints
Indie Means Business: The Designers Unseating the Contract Furniture Industry
Independent designers and retailers have been slowly consolidating their position in the contract furniture industry. Now they’re ready to give established businesses a run for their money.
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Viewpoints
Milan Exhibit Asks: Can an Office Bring Joy?
At the biennial Workplace 3.0 exhibition during Milan Design Week, designers from around the world will present installations on the workplace of the future.
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Projects
The Magic Bullet of Workplace Design?
A closer look at the intersection of the office and the home, what employees are looking for from their workspaces, and how design can facilitate a work-life balance
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Projects
8 Artists Envision Their Ideal Workspaces
Herman Miller asked eight artists to reflect on their ideal place to work. They responded not only with words, but with fantastic, whimsical images.
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Programs
What Is the Role of Technology and Sensory Experiences in the Office?
As part of the Metropolis Think Tank series, Susan S. Szenasy talked with Rapt Studio and representatives from Dropbox and GE Digital about the role of technology and sensory experiences in the office.
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Programs
Design and Technology Can Work in Tandem to Benefit the Human Condition
The rise of the robots should inspire hope not concern, says Metropolis editor in chief and publisher Susan S. Szenasy.
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Programs
How to "Hack" Workplace Design
Susan S. Szenasy leads a panel discussion on how to "hack" workplace design and the importance of hacking in the architecture and design industry.
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Viewpoints
RIT Design Students Reimagine the Modern Office
Design students at RIT are reimagining the modern office.
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Programs
The Workspace, Like Identity, Is a Fluid Concept
The division between life and labor is disappearing, as was demonstrated by the LiveWork SpanishStyle Design installation at NeoCon 2015.
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Projects
Bringing Happiness Into Workplace Design
On the business imperative, iterative design, and happiness
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Products
How a Contract Furniture Expert Sees the Evolving Workplace
How a contract furniture expert sees the evolving workplace
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Projects
Work Can Happen Anywhere, But the Office Is Still Needed
The Workplace of the Future Design Competition revealed a wealth of fresh ideas and a bit of uncertainty about exactly where we’re headed.
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Projects
New Workplace Strategies, According to a Real-Estate Specialist
The real estate specialist talks about new workplace strategies and the physical plant that supports them.
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Projects
Offices Should Have “Authentic Centers,” Says STUDIOS’ Tom Krizmanic
What if workplaces were designed for thinking men and women?
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Projects
The Living Office—The Action Office for the Digital Age?
Almost 50 years after the Action Office, Herman Miller embarks on the next big rethinking of the workplace: the Living Office. It is the ultimate twenty-first-century work-in-progress.
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Projects
The Office Is at a “Pivotal” Point, Says Workplace Expert Jan Johnson
Studying and analyzing the worker and the workplace leads one expert to predict where we’re heading.