Potential Project - The Future of WORK
Call for Solutions: The Future of WORK
The current world climate has created many topics of debate, such as global and local economies, technology, healthcare, unemployment, and the environment. Not surprisingly, these themes are all tied to the core of our existence – work. While governments and corporations are implementing major overhauls to fix the system, the architecture profession struggles to manage these rippling effects that influence all aspects of the industry - from architectural education to clientele.
The Project is: A conference that draws designers and related fields together through a series of lectures, panels, exhibition, and workshops to help explore the future of the architecture profession (please see concept prompt under additional information).
The target community for the Project is: Architectural profession – architecture firms, architecture schools, independent designers, consulting industries, and professional boards.
What is the current condition the Project will be working with? (ie., What is so? What services are needed?) This project deals largely with event planning – drawing a diverse body of people from the architectural/design profession to debate the future of the industry as it relates to current world events – such as financial instability, malleable workforce, global communications and diversified education.
How can we frame this challenge as an opportunity to redesign of our profession through the changes and challenges taking place in our world today? What is the future of the WORK?
We ask you to redefine: WORKspace, WORKplace, WORKshop, WORKtime, WORKforce
