We always look forward.
For 2016’s Design Forecast, we challenged ourselves to look out 10 years.
Design shapes the future of human experience to create a better world. This credo is the basis of our Design Forecast. For 2016, we asked our global teams to consider how people will live, work, and play in the cities of 2025. Their insights will give our clients an insider view of the issues design will confront in the next decade.
Finding opportunities requires insight and imagination. Our newly opened Shanghai Tower speaks to how we help our clients reframe the present to meet the needs of tomorrow. Design is how we do it. It makes insight actionable, creates meaningful innovation, and calls a thriving future into being.
Embracing
our iHumanity.
Leading
“smarter lives.”
Designing both time and space.
Designing both time and space.
Resilience
gets
scale.
Resilience gets scale.
Urbanity,
not just
urbanization.
Cities as
innovation
engines.
For a closer look at how these metatrends will impact the way we live, work and play, see the following sections.
Live
Community Forecast
Contemporary life’s disruption and opportunity is the working agenda for cities and their community-facing institutions and infrastructure.
Work
Workplace Forecast
Liberated from old constraints, prepared to go where its talents are best supported, an urban workforce will reshape work and its settings.
Play
Lifestyle Forecast
Tech integration and fast-changing media play to Leisure’s emphasis on experience. Keeping it real, seamless, and profitable are challenges.