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Neil Usher tells us that, while we can’t be surrounded by our colleagues, we’re all missing out – and not just the young’uns.

As the hospitality industry starts to get back on its feet, Buckley Gray Yeoman share some of the key ideas they have been working on to create new and better spaces for returning guests.

The days of the £2,000, two tonne, over engineered and grandiosely titled workstation are long gone - eradicated by advancements in technology. But what does the future of the flat surface hold in an ever more complicated and uncertain workplace era. Neil Usher explores the possibilities.

The pandemic changed the hospitality industry for good, says Ed Plumb, Founder and Design Director at Studio Found. This presents exciting new opportunities as well as challenges for everyone, including designers. 

MCM has launched the second mission from its Innovation Lab and Thinktank, #MCMSkunkworks. The firm’s series of big ideas for a better future for cities will focus on five unique themes: work, living, infrastructure, culture and entertainment, and the environment.

We’re thrilled to bring you a new regular column from one of the country’s foremost workplace and change thinkers, leading author Neil Usher - providing an expert view of the issues facing workplace owners, operators, designers and users alike.

Director of Interior Design Henry Reeve looks at the directions in which the hospitality market is likely to move post-pandemic.

We ask 6 experts from inside and outside of Clerkenwell to offer their opinion on the future of our (current) design hub.

Neil Andrew, Head of Hospitality at Perkins&Will, looks at how the hotel market will come to terms with our changing wants and needs.