Mix Roundtables

In partnership with Interface, we explore whether we can adapt aesthetics to fit with truly sustainable design, and ask: how can we create systems that needn’t come at a cost?

In this Mix Roundtable with modulyss, we explore what it means to create adaptive, inclusive and inspiring educational and workplace environments.

In this Mix Roundtable with Impact Acoustic, we explore circular design models, tackling misconceptions and asking what we still have to learn about ‘closing the loop’.

In partnership with Atlas Concorde, we explore the blending of the ‘special’ and the practical, looking at how workspaces can be elevated and the evolving nature of detail-driven, luxury design.

In partnership with Amtico, a new cohort of designers considers how they can make an impact on the design industry and the planet.

We explore designing people-centred places and ask what different sectors can learn from each other in developing environments fit for all.

In this Mix Roundtable with CDUK, we challenge established ideas around sustainable design, and ask if what’s right on paper is right in practice.

In this Mix Roundtable with 2tec2 we explore the fast-changing factors shaping how we live, work and socialise; consider what these mean for the spaces we inhabit; and ask how today’s design can still be relevant for tomorrow’s world.

Design beyond the physical: we explore the role of sensory design in crafting purposeful places.

In this Mix Roundtable with Specialist Group, we explore why some workspaces are having a detrimental effect on their users and chart how to create environments that are good for mind and body.

In this Mix Roundtable with Ege, we explore how to devise desirable spaces that cultivate culture, build brand identity and encourage engagement.

We chart the rise of personalised spaces and ask what it means to create with the individual in mind.

Recent years have seen a build-to-rent boom, but how can the model deliver positive social outcomes, embed culture and create thriving places to live?

In the rush to create spaces people want to be in, are we still creating spaces fit to work in?

From student accommodation to vertical villages, co-living has attracted global investors. But is this communal model really a dream or a dystopia?

We explore what it takes to develop creative hubs, discuss how workspaces beyond our capitals can continue to nurture community, and ask if decentralisation is ultimately the pathway to better results and happier teams.

We look at designing for diversity, unpick why good design is inclusive design, and ask what more can be done to ensure that our workspaces are actually working for everyone.

We explode some of the myths surrounding sustainability; consider whether good in practice trumps perfect on paper; and ask if sustainable design is an ongoing journey, not a destination.

We chart our industry’s catalysts for change, explore what it takes to create a needle-moving commercial interior and ask if the greatest asset in design is the courage to look beyond the conventional.

In partnership with Invictus, we explored why fostering relationships is essential, charted our changing connections with commercial spaces and considered if design is ever successful if it doesn’t put people first.

The UK’s growing build-to-rent residential sector survived the pandemic – but lessons have been learnt. Architects, designers and developers joined a roundtable hosted by Milliken to assess what worked, what didn’t and what comes next in the world of beds-for-rent

We look beyond the immediate needs of workplace environments and ask how flexibility can be built into the workplace so that it can continue to evolve with as little disruption and waste as possible over the long-term.

An expert panel of designers from a multitude of sectors discuss creating hygienic spaces that don’t compromise on style, comfort and character.

Does brand loyalty still exist within the commercial interiors industry? We’ve teamed up with Invictus and a selection of the industry’s finest minds at N1’s über cool workspace/art gallery, the depot_, to discuss all things brand and branding.

We’ve gathered a panel of industry experts at Ultrafabrics’ fantastic Clerkenwell showroom to discuss the importance of textures and colour when it comes to designing spaces with sensory wellbeing in mind.

Is now the time for coworking to re-emerge, superhero–like, and obliterate that commute, destroy those traditional working patterns, and completely annihilate the property market as we know it?

While the subject of waste management (and the wider sustainability issue) remains a hot topic, despite a global pandemic, is the industry really doing enough – or is it merely a box ticking issue?

The function and role of commercial spaces is constantly changing – massively accelerated by the pandemic. What do we expect on our return post lockdown?

While some will automatically want to return to the workplace, others will need convincing – and, to convince these doubters, employers will need to offer much more than just a desk, chair and meeting room.

When ‘unlockdown’ comes, Birmingham workspace will need to meet changed demands from a changed world. We teamed up with Wilmott Dixon Interiors to challenge a group of the city’s leading property practitioners.

We bring together the finest industry minds in Manchester to discuss the hottest of topics right now: the home vs office debate – are our homes set to the the new office for the foreseeable future?

Should designers and end users alike be pushing to source products that are more local, original and can be proved to be ethical, sustainable and ‘good’?

This month’s Roundtable looks at human-friendly, planet-friendly and animal-friendly design and its connotations – from products and production methods, to the wider context of creating a brand and design differential in an increasingly segmented market. Will the ethics ever outweigh the economics?

Threats from coworking operators have awakened the developers to provide options for tenants who don’t want the cost or hassle of creating their own workplace. Is this merely a trend or will it continue?

We’ve gathered another crack panel of industry experts together in Amtico's Metal Box Factory showroom – to discuss the hot topic of the workplace experience.

Wellbeing: Why do we continue to value engineer something so priceless? We’re at Assmann’s amazing new Spring Gardens Design Studio in Manchester, where we’ve gathered a brilliant panel of leading designers and developers, together with representatives from our sponsor, Altro.

Much has been made of the ‘special relationship’ between the UK and the US but, when it comes to commercial workplaces, is there still a great divide?

In one sense of the word, biophilia is here for good – for the good of all of us. But is it simply another workplace element that is bang on trend today, only to be relegated down those wish lists tomorrow?