The digital and physical worlds are colliding. How will social media platforms influence the way we design spaces? When planning for my upcoming trip to Europe, I did something interesting—something that betrayed exactly how much of a stereotypical Millennial I am. I googled, “most Instagrammable places in Amsterdam.” My parents would most certainly scoff at […]
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Everyone is asking for the workplace of the future, but a better starting point would be to imagine the work of the future. Offices originally supported the repetitive job of clerks, as astutely described by Nikil Saval in his book, Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace. Even the lovely Johnson Wax HQ or the […]
Read More ›Recently, Tesla CEO Elon Musk told political leaders that artificial intelligence poses an “existential threat” to human civilization. Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, believes that companies that employ robots to take human jobs should pay taxes. Fair ‘nuff, but it makes one wonder: Can smart machines and humans happily co-exist? Or are we doomed to a […]
Read More ›This June, CRTKL’s Jodi Williams and Jeanne Wood presented at the Building Owners and Managers Association International Conference and Expo. Here are some of the takeaways from their experience. Presenting our research on the workplace of the future at BOMA 2017 was an incredible experience that was only made exponentially more enriching by the other […]
Read More ›NeoCon 2017 was held at The Mart in Chicago. It brought together some of the top commercial design professionals to explore the future of interior design for commercial environments. We attended to check out what was on the horizon in terms of workplace interior design. Take a photo tour of the trends that we saw […]
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