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The Workhome Project is passionate about thought-provoking design for home-based work. Motivated agents for change, our mission is to explore the current paradigm shift, and its impact on the architecture and urbanism of the future.

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NPR City of Eugene Radio Podcast

‘The Next Normal’. The Future of Working from Home

17 September 2021 | Opinion

In this NPR City Club of Eugene broadcast on the future of work, Howard Davis and Frances Holliss evisage the transformative potential of ‘The Next Normal’ for work: expanded flexibility that has the potential to better support workers, families and local economies, and to significantly reduce waste, pollution and stress.

Housing Space Use in the Pandemic and After: The Case for New Design Guidance

24 August 2021 | Projects

UK homes need to be bigger to accommodate home-based work. This is the conclusion of research carried out by the Workhome Project’s Frances Holliss in collaboration with London Metropolitan University’s Matthew Barac and Research Assistants Nicola Blake and Marianna Janowicz.

The varieties of everyday life

15 June 2021 | Opinion

In this blog post, Howard Davis discusses the historical construction of an economic and social way of life and how this is being significantly challenged through the impacts of the present pandemic. Ideals centered around the ‘family’, ‘public good’, and the ‘office’ are starting to erode and transform, as academics and corporations, individuals and communities, are starting to interrogate the new normal.

Workhome Podcasts Episode 2

Design for Home-based Work

14 July 2020 | Podcasts

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.

Workhome Projects – Education

Tomi Akinyemi (TU Delft), The Working Home.

Workhome Studies – The Workhome in Student Projects

The Covid-19 shift to home-based work has major implications for the design of our buildings and cities. Almost overnight, homes and workplaces, suburbs and Central Business Districts need to be re-imagined and configured to reap the benefits and mitigate the disadvantages of this age-old working practice. Architectural students across the world have been hard at it – spurred on by their tutors. In this ongoing series, we showcase some of the best student work that addresses this paradigm shift head-on, at the scale of the home, the building, the block, the neighbourhood or the city, contextualised by their tutor’s reflections.

Nijmegen: Site of Bricolage

The TU Delft Urban Architecture graduation studios are set up on the premise that architecture is a highly contextual field. In this contribution to Workhome Studies, Eireen Schreuers reports from her work with students on the theme of ‘Bricolage’ between 2020–21 – making do with what is at hand, inviting students to interpret, adapt, re-use and juxtapose the existing context, departing from its particular conditions and resources.

The Productive Dwelling

Studio 12 at the University of Brighton led by Luis Diaz and Sean Albuquerque has concentrated on housing since 2010. In 2017 the studio focused on live-work dwellings on a site in Hastings using Frances Hollis’s book Beyond Live/Work as a starting point. In this article, Luis Diaz revisits the studio's work from today’s perspective.

The Working Home

First in our Workhome Studies series showcasing the work of students and tutors in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Tomi Akinyemi (TU Delft) writes about how her project seeks to create a social housing residential neighbourhood that affords opportunities for financial betterment through the use of integrated workspaces.

Workhome Podcasts Episode 1

Social Inequality and the Workhome

23 July 2020 | Podcasts

Working from home is becoming the new norm – while white collar workers have benefited, it has increased inequality for many working class employees. Here more about these issues on our latest podcast, ‘Social Inequality and the Workhome’, with Frances Holliss and Richard Brown.

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Two-door City. Workhome Project shortlisted for 2021 Davidson Prize

2 June 2021 | Projects

The theme of the inaugural Davidson Prize for architectural drawing, ‘Home/Work – A New Future’, sought out thought-provoking ideas to help inform the debate about working from home. Our ‘Two-door city’ concept made it on the shortlist.

24 October 2021 | The Guardian Letter

The Guardian: Boris Johnson works from home: Why can’t we?

15 October 2021 | New York Times

The New York Times: A Home Built for the Next Pandemic

15 September 2021 | The Guardian

Zen and the art of working from home: Japanese builder offers mini office kit

21 September 2021 | BBC News Services

Staff to gain right to request flexible working from first day

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AF 100 Day Studio 75

Social inequality and design for home-based work – a call to arms

23 June 2020 | Opinion

In her contribution to the Architecture Foundation’s 100 Day Studio programme, Frances Holliss explores the continuing impact of the historic disapproval of home-based work on housing design today – and the disproportional impact this has on BAME communities

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