DEGW Lecture 10 October 2018

Part 1: Work and the Future Office

Nicola Gillen, Director and Global Practice Leader, Strategy+ at AECOM

Drawing from the RIBA book ‘Future Office: Next-generation workplace design’, lead author Nicola Gillen explored disruptors in the world of work, design process and practice to look at how and where we will work in the future.

Part 2: Work and the City: Directions for Change

Andrew Laing, PhD, Principal of Andrew Laing Consulting LLC, and Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University, School of Architecture

Andrew Laing explored the history of ideas about work, technology and the city, from DEGW’s pioneering research on intelligent buildings, the distributed workplace, and Frank Duffy’s seminal book Work and the City, and looked at the emerging directions of change in work, technology and the city. How is the thinking on technology and cities altering our ways of understanding places? What are the implications for new ways of programming, designing and using the city?

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You can watch the lecture in full here, and or jump to Part 2 here.