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The Workspace of Tomorrow is an interview podcast featuring future-of-work experts in business, the social sciences, design, and architecture. Hosted by journalist and editor Spencer Bailey, and produced by the New York City startup ROOM in partnership with The Slowdown, the series explores social change, technological advancement, and organizational innovation, and asks how people become our most inspired, productive, and creative in the workspace.
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Florian Idenburg, co-founder and partner of Brooklyn architecture firm SO-IL and author of the forthcoming book Human(s) Work, believes the office of the future will involve increased flexibility, autonomy, and imagination. On the episode, he considers the pandemic as a moment to rethink our relationship with the workplace and our jobs, the need fo…
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Bärí A. Williams, author of Diversity in the Workplace: Eye-Opening Interviews to Jumpstart Conversations about Identity, Privilege, and Bias, discusses why an expanded sense of diversity and inclusion is essential to the success of both employees and employers. On the episode, she shares her nuanced approach to finding social and cultural balance …
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Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School and author of the book The Fearless Organization, discusses the steps leaders should be thinking about as companies look to bring their employees back to the office. On the episode, she touches on workspace safety, her concept of “psychological safety,…
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San Francisco–based designer and entrepreneur Yves Béhar discusses the profound life-and-work shifts happening before us. On the podcast, he offers insights on how the COVID-19 pandemic is reshaping companies’ and employees’ views on work and home, why honesty and integrity are becoming more important, how virtual tools are transforming collaborati…
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By ROOM in partnership with The Slowdown
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By ROOM in partnership with The Slowdown
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Jennifer Magnolfi, the founder of Programmable Habitats, a research and development consultancy that specializes in developing high-tech work environments, talks to us about integrating technology systems and data into architecture, as well as the importance of solitude and reflection within an urban context. Having collaborated on corporate redesi…
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Architect and designer David Rockwell, the founder of Rockwell Group, discusses his firm’s wide-ranging body of work—Broadway theaters and sets, restaurants, Imagination Playground, hotels, the JetBlue terminal at J.F.K. Airport—and how these projects have informed his workspace designs, including NeueHouse and the headquarters for Warner Music Gro…
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