Work, and the organizations that create & define it, are some of our fastest evolving social structures. They change so quickly and completely that words like ‘disruption’ are used to describe its shifts; legal agencies struggle to keep up.

On the other hand, ‘workplace design’ has been remarkably slow at reflecting these societal changes. The architect’s language to describe this is similarly obsolete. Even at its most progressive it simply enables & perpetuates existing structures, without a complete understanding of the meaning of its designs.

By making the Office a Project we are taking work & the workplace as a starting point to explore its expanded field of influence, from spatial privacy to care economies; from distributed digital work to white collar unions.. Our Project is not some Malthusian warning about (or celebration of) the ‘future of work,’ but is instead about understanding—in order to design for (or indeed against) this ubiquitous but under-scrutinized subject.