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Looking for inspiration? Curious about a topic? See the industry through our eyes in our blogs and thought pieces.

Conflicts in neurodiverse design

In our final reflection piece from Clerkenwell Design Week, interior designers Amy and Jade share their insights from the Workstories talk ‘Should we be tailoring our design for a specific group?’

Office design for neurodiversity: Creating spaces that work for everyone

Continuing our reflection from this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week, interior designer Hannah shares her insights from Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald’s talk ‘Why does my brain like it here?’ exploring the neuroscience behind our responses to the spaces we inhabit.

Shaping property's sustainable future: Insights from our Next Gen roundtable

Our latest Next Gen event brought together young professionals from across the property sector to tackle one of the industry's most pressing questions: how do we balance sustainability ambitions with commercial reality?

Designing with sustainability in mind

For decades, manufacturing has followed a simple pattern: make, sell and throw away. Now manufacturers are rethinking this approach, designing products that can be easily taken apart so their parts can be reused and turned into something new.

Shaping spaces with light

Read Petra Scherer's write up of the LIGHT exhibition at this year's Clerkenwell Design Week.

Lessons for life found in marathon training

I ran the London Marathon this year. That’s 26.2 miles with more than 50,000 people on one of the most well-known marathon courses in the world.

The Safety Net

Clients want certainty, and we’d like to give them that. But there needs to be an appreciation that if workplace attendance and space use aren’t black and white then 100% certainty from your consultancy team isn’t going to be straightforward either.

E, D, and AYE! Rethinking equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Read Chris Carr's write up of the Material Source event "Demystifying EDI: How do we design for all?”

Functionality & Wow(!)

“If the brief is a design, start again.”—Workplace Strategist Neil Usher said that and he’s not wrong.

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