As part of the Salus Healthy Cities Design Conference 2020, CBRE and Heta Architects partnered to design and facilitate a virtual workshop to explore, post-Covid, what a healthy hybrid ecosystem of work looks like, including and beyond the office.
We ‘set’ the workshop in two years’ time, where widespread vaccination has enabled us to adapt to a new normal, building on the valuable lessons we learned during the pandemic.
We invited a group of experts across disciplines - including health, architecture, design, and planning - to participate, sharing their knowledge and experience while also diving into what an ideal working ‘day in the life’ looks like for two very different personas in extreme scenarios, working 100% from home and 100% from work. Through discussion around the key challenges and enablers around each scenario, we were able to understand what is really needed in the hybrid, which everyone agreed is the ideal. We also decided to harness the benefits of a virtual workshop to allow for extended audience participation, using digital tools like Miro, a brainstorming platform, and Mentimeter, an interactive survey and presentation software.
The key aims of the workshop were to tap into the diverse expertise in the room, share a multi-faceted, human-centred and interactive approach to the world of work, and use human-centred design tools to understand what makes this ideal ecosystem possible.
Project Details
- Category: Interior Design / Design Advisory / Wellness
- Collaborators: Namrata Krishna, Yvonne Pinniger & Muriel Altunaga
- Date of Conference: 1st of December 2020