‘Back to normal? … Absolutely not!’, from: Bruno Latour, ‘What protectivemeasures can you think of so we don’t go back to the pre-crisis production model?’, March 2020 → read more
Workhome
Project
The way we work is changing. The Workhome Project advocates design and policy norms that make this change work – for communities, cities and the environment.
Millions of people are now working from home in an unexpected global experiment triggered by Covid-19. Many employers and employees are finding this works for them. The benefits of this shift are potentially transformative.
Workhome Blog
Jeremy Porteus: HAPPI Working from Home? Designing ‘work-ready’ housing
30 September 2020
In this blog post, Jeremy Porteus – a member of our team and Chief Executive of the Housing Learning Improvement Network – provides an outline of how ten years since the original HAPPI report, the ten ‘care ready’ HAPPI design principles can be recalibrated to incorporate ‘work ready’ adjustments to accommodate a growing number of people of all ages, but especially in later life, who want or will be working from home or may require live in care and support, such as personal assistant, now or in future, to meet their changing work patterns and lifestyles.
Podcasts
Episode 2: Design for Home-based Work
Working from home has presented a number of physical and spatial challenges for many of us in our varying homes, households and neighbourhoods. In our latest episode we discuss the various ways that design can improve our ability to work from home and why it is important.
In this episode, the members of the workhome project present some of their own design ideas, spanning from the urban design scale down to the small individual performative interventions of the individual. The team then discuss how these ideas could be realised.
Presentations and discussion from Frances Hollis, Howard Davis, Richard Brown, Jeremy Porteus, Cany Ash and Joseph Kohlmaier.
