sustainability
Selective recovery: how Europe’s office market will fare in 2026
A new outlook from the Urban Land Institute and PwC suggests that the European office real estate market is not rebounding to its pre-pandemic highs – but there are green shoots in key areas
Design Forecast 2026: experience as the real metric for real estate
Gebnsler’s Design Forecast 2026 sets out six key trends you won’t miss in the coming year as workplace experience, the power of AI and ‘HQ-plus’ environments set the creative agenda
Signal File: the weeks headlines on AI infrastructure and ethics
From data centres that are out of this world to new global standards for neurotechnology, this week’s signals highlight how technology, design and governance are converging
How strategic partnerships are turning decarbonisation in enterprise value
A new wave of decarbonisation partnerships is reframing sustainability investments as profit-enhancing strategies
Designing for a living planet – lessons from Humanscale’s sustainability journey
Often reduced to reporting and regulation, sustainability can be far more dynamic. Humanscale’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Jane Abernethy, illustrates how design-led thinking turns responsibility into opportunity
Signal File: this week’s headlines explore design at the intersection of tradition and novelty
This week’s signals reveal how blending traditional practices with new technologies is shaping adaptive and sustainable design for the future of work
The sound of sustainability: combining music and nature
A new pilot study by a joint research team from Colombia and Portugal has paired instrumental music with natural elements to communicate what sustainability sounds like in the workplace
Signal File: what this week’s headlines reveal about human-centred design
This week’s headlines reveal new roles of workplace design, from cutting carbon, rethinking mobility, to softening surveillance
