The brand new subject of Works journal is now obtainable so that you can learn on-line free. 2026 guarantees to be one more revolutionary 12 months for work and workplaces and we’ll be with you at each step alongside the way in which. On this subject: you’ll discover three case research and a spherical up of tasks highlighting new considering and greatest apply in office design; we take into account how Canary Wharf and different enterprise districts are in impolite well being regardless of the obituaries we could have examine them in recent times; there’s commentary from Adam Scott, Su Lim and Stephanie Fitzgerald; now we have reviews from two spherical tables in London in addition to a glance again on Design Mumbai; the most recent information on merchandise, supplies and occasions. Plus there are masses extra options, together with our podcast collection with Shaw Contract exploring the totally different sides of consolation.
CONTENTS
VIEWFINDER
A brand new exhibition in London celebrates the enduring worth of architectural drawing all over the world
COMMENTS
Two vexed matters on this subject. Adam Scott and Su Lim take into account the actual pull elements that can get folks into an workplace whereas Stephanie Fitzgerald shares her ideas on the already obvious horrors of AI and its impact on our lives
SHOWROOM
A spherical up of newest enterprise information and among the greatest new services in the marketplace from main suppliers
CASE STUDY: LIFE AND MIND BUILDING
Jo Knight visits the brand new Life and Thoughts Constructing at Oxford to see how the world’s oldest college is addressing a collection of very trendy challenges together with sustainable constructing design, providing folks alternative about the place, when and how one can work, and how one can create one thing that’s match for each now and the longer term
THE NEW FACE OF INNOVATION
A brand new era of office professionals is now reshaping and rethinking what we anticipate and wish from places of work. We gathered a multi-generational panel of consultants to debate what this implies in apply and the way we should always all look to adapt to a brand new, groundbreaking method to the working atmosphere
CASE STUDY: TALON
The brand new headquarters of a inventive media company present how an workplace can redefine our relationship with work and town
CANARY WHARF
Stories of the loss of life of Canary Wharf and by extension different enterprise districts all over the world have been very a lot exaggerated as new offers and new workplace for main occupiers show
CASE STUDY: CASA ITALIA
Bringing collectively the Italian Embassy, Cultural Institute and Commerce Company, Casa Itala is a full of life house for diplomacy, tradition and commerce on the coronary heart of London
DESIGN MUMBAI
The themes, merchandise and content material programme of Design Mumbai now mark it out as one of the crucial essential and ahead considering exhibits on the worldwide workplace design exhibition circuit. Joanna Knight reviews on an occasion that goes from power to power
ROUND TABLE
The lengthy and more and more tiresome dialog about whether or not folks ought to spend extra time within the workplace wants to maneuver on. It ought to now concentrate on how one can ship what folks need. A latest occasion in London acquired the ball rolling with office knowledgeable Jim Taylour main the dialog with an invited panel and viewers of visitors
PROJECTS
When folks can work wherever, how do you make the workplace probably the greatest decisions they will make? Right here’s a roundup of some excellent and galvanizing workplaces from all over the world that present a solution to the best query of our time
MATERIALS FOCUS
Innovation is available in many kinds… and more and more in lots of supplies. Right here’s our common spherical up of the most recent information, concepts and merchandise together with a have a look at how a lot workplace furnishings goes to landfill, a brand new materials made out of fish scales, a reinvention of a standard Norwegian cloth and a look forward to Materials issues in Copenhagen
EVENTS
Who doesn’t like a get collectively? It’s now extra essential than ever to deliver folks collectively in frequent causes or simply to fulfill with outdated and new pals and revel in themselves
FLOORING MATTERS
Our podcast collection in partnership with Shaw Contract explores the assorted facets of consolation by means of conversations with a world famend panel of consultants
WORKPLACE TRENDS
Which is memory-holed first? New Yr’s resolutions? Or the developments and predictions lists that gum up the media in the beginning and finish of every 12 months?
WELCOME
The Phrase of the Yr for 2025 was slop, based on the Economist. Equally, mind rot was the phrase of the 12 months 2024 based on the Oxford College Press and others.
This tells us lots about the place we’re by way of the data and entertainments we devour. Like many individuals, I spend an excessive amount of time on-line and sometimes discover myself dragged into the recesses of the Web the place these things exists. It’s designed by intelligent and conscious folks to pull us in.
In brief time, GenAI has flooded the net realm with slop and is now consuming it and shitting it again out like a digital centipede.
To exacerbate this, now we have already changed our editors and curators with algorithms. We base our perception in info on our personal prejudices and what we understand as worthwhile on what we see on-line.
The creation and ingestion of slop can override our capability to see the world for what it’s. As an alternative, it presents us with a picture of the world as it’s imagined and processed. This isn’t about understanding something. It’s about satisfying an intuition, and sometimes a base intuition.
There are limits to what we are able to perceive. I can solely discuss a handful of topics with any diploma of confidence and a technique I do know that is by attempting to specific my understanding of one thing exterior of that small realm of experience.
I’ll grasp an concept when it’s defined to me, however when I attempt to categorical it, my lack of perception turns into clear. Writing isn’t solely considering, additionally it is humbling. We must always have the ability to spot the canny valley in addition to the uncanny valley. We must always know our limitations.
This issues as a result of what we make additionally makes us.
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