Destination Workplace: Places Where People Want to Be
27th & 28th February 2023
Business Design Centre, London
2021 visitors included:
Image: Woven Image
Destination Workplace: Places Where People Want to Be
27th & 28th February 2023
Business Design Centre, London
Image: Woven Image
The Workspace Design Show brings together the UK’s workplace interiors community to explore the experience of tomorrow’s workspaces.
What will shape tomorrow’s workspace? Now more than ever, the future is based on togetherness, collaboration, and the spirit of cooperation.
Workspaces need to create environments that foster creativity and innovation, while also being agile for the flexible working models that people require.
Don’t miss out on the chance to be part of the UK’s biggest workspace event, bringing you networking, thought leadership and the latest products to transform our country’s offices.
Workspace Design Talks
The Lounge by BDP
‘Change by Design’ is a lounge space concept for the Workspace Design Show, carefully curated by BDP. It is a discussion piece surrounding the current climate crisis, and questions the impact of workplace design on the natural environment. It represents a problem-solving approach that showcases the use of recycled, reused and bio materials in design projects helping to shape a low-carbon future.
Entrance by Gensler
It feels like there has never been a more exciting and yet equally unknown time in the future of workplace design. We are inspired by this synergy between a new era of workplace and a new outlook on how we can care for our planet, and how we as designers can affect that through pioneering and sustainable design. It’s about fresh perspectives to enable new ways of working and create unique and tailored destinations for people, hence the overarching theme of Rebirth. By Becky Spenceley, Design Director at Gensler.
Mood Board Contest by Kvadrat
FIS Innovation Awards
The FIS Innovation Awards recognise outstanding innovation in the finishes and interiors sector across the various categories.
Bio Materials Exhibition
Placing biological systems at the heart of BIOHM’ inspiration, they combine ideologies of the circular economy and human-centred design with future-tech to create a step-change in building technologies, materials and manufacturing methods.
Workspace Design Show Party
Get you dancing shoes on because the most talked about party in the town will be back and this time BIGGER, BOLDER AND BETTER!
Listen to the leading lights from A&D and end-users talking about the latest trends, challenges and innovations. Recent disruption has caused huge change in how we go about designing our workplaces, and this is the place to find out what’s next. The design lounge has been beautifully curated by The Furniture Practice.
Image by headline partner, The Furniture Practice.
Headline Partner
Participating Brands
Workspace Design Talks
An invitation only, exclusive gathering of the UK’s leading figures in commercial A & D, providing the ideal chance for a long overdue catch up to discuss 2022’s new ideas and designs!
Image by our the sponsor of this event, Woven Image.
Architects & Designers Drinks Night
Designed by: Rainlight Studio
Built by: AASK US
Curated by: Obolife
The workspace Show VIP lounge is designed to represent the ephemerality of our world, enhanced by the recent year of remote working and our increased reliance on digital communications. The outside world is brought into our homes in a way that we never have experienced. The lounge uses raw aluminium profiles and expanded metal mesh. These are 100% recyclable and do not contain any harmful coatings or use any harmful processes. Working together with OboLife, the UK dealer for Worksmith by Arcadia, this lounge is created as a place for being together in what could be the next workspace.
The space has been constructed with sustainability in mind, using raw aluminium profiles and expanded metal mesh, which are 100% recyclable and do not contain any harmful coatings or use any harmful processes. The materials used have been carefully selected, raw aluminium was chosen for its toughness, sustainability merits and delicate feel. The company responsible for designing the material, AASK US, were very accommodating of Rainlight and obo’s design aspirations, fulfilling the brief sensitively and accurately.
Image by Rainlight Studio.
VIP Lounge
See the award winning products that have been given the top accolade by our esteemed panel of judges!
Images by our competition winners.
Icons of Design
Curated by Seven Hills Workspace and Spaces Taylored
We wanted the area to be a place where inhibitions and insecurities are washed away allowing for open conversations and collaboration.
We wanted to create an area that encourages conversation. “All aspects of office design should put emphasis on communication and teamwork, the right interior design can encourage the interactions between people.” David Jackson – Seven Hills Workspace
“The creation of seated areas puts individuals in a position where they’re facing each other and also introducing fun and interesting areas such as the opportunity to play a game of pool will help engaging conversations to begin. These social settings make it very easy to interact and to break the ice.” Adam Taylor – Spaces Taylored
Image by Spaces Taylored.
Leisure Zone
When I was first contacted by the Workspace Show to do a lighting installation for the event in November at the Business Design Centre, I was excited to see what could be achievable within this iconic space. Lighting installations should be fun, engaging and draw people in. Light is a fantastic medium to use and has the ability to create a wide range of atmospheres and environments for people to interact with.
The product that we have used for the installation is from PROLICHT; an Austrian company with a flair for modern and functional architectural lighting. They have recently collaborated with Tom Dixon to create a wonderful lighting range called the CODE.
This range of fittings shows both a rawness and industrial feel to LED technology. The flexibility of the product allows the user to create a diverse range of lighting installations with its simplistic approach of utilising its track mounting function.
My vision for the welcoming experience to the Workspace show plays on the theatrical nature of the cinematic world; heavy drapes creating a luxurious and moody backdrop, waiting for the main feature to begin in excitement and anticipation. Replacing the fabric materials with lighting, in connection with the use of clever programming, we can create this same wonderous world for you all to view and enjoy.
Lead Designer: Lauren Lever, Design Director at Minoux Lighting Design
Product: PROLICHT X Tom Dixon
Entrance Feature by Lauren Lever
“As the Official Talks Partner, it was great to be part of the first WDS, we felt it was a huge success! I thought the talks were all really interesting and something unique in the UK market.”
“It was a genuine pleasure to take part, and the feedback has been tremendous. On the day the organsiation was super, and I really enjoyed doing both my sessions. There seemed to be a real joy at being ‘back in the room’.”
“What the workplace sector needs right now is expertise to come together to explore and experiment on our future places. The Workspace Design Show Talk’s offered just that – providing an environment where all parts of the design supply chain put their heads together to question the possibilities we have, as we all navigate the next normal. It was fantastic to be a part of a panel of experts who will help shape this future.”
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