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We’ve been keeping ourselves busy by asking leading industry figures to offer their opinions of where we’re likely to find ourselves once we begin to live and work in a post-COVID world. This week is the turn of a selection of architects and designers.

Continuing our series of ponderings on how the current crisis will affect the commercial interiors (and wider) world, we’ve asked a number of manufacturers and dealers to offer their opinions on where we’re likely to find ourselves post-COVID.

March seemed like a decade. April seemed like a second. The world has changed and time is elastic, relative. Here, Cirkularis8 Founder and CEO, Kristoff DuBose, looks beyond the physical effects of COVID-19.

Now, more than ever, taking a human-centred approach is critical in workspace design. Jason Holmes, Head of Design Textiles at Forbo Flooring Systems explains how to incorporate design inspired by nature.

Nathan Lonsdale, Co-Founder of Spacelab, discusses their journey to improve workplaces with sensor technology.

We are all having to adjust to the restrictions imposed by the Government to tackle the spread of COVID-19, BroomeJenkins’ Barry Jenkins considers. But what will this all mean to the workplace and how we all work in the future?

Mijail Gutierrez, Principal at Perkins and Will London, discusses the role architects and designers play in creating places that nurture productivity and happiness.

Pendrick Brown, Commercial Director at JAC, gives his take on what the future workspace might look like post Covid-19.

Alongside Philip Ross and the team at UnWork, we’ve pulled together a list of developments in workplace technology that you should be keeping an eye on.