With concerns paid on the deficiencies of open-plan and activity-based workplace, in search of the future of workplace design, rather than over-focusing on the imagination of how the future will shape the office culture, a looking back to history and critical evaluation on the different interests of stakeholders and their psychological motivations behind will be more pertinent ways to the solution. Therefore, the dissertation "The Impossible Office Trinity - Towards a New Typology of Flexible Workplace Design" will start by examining the history of office design as well as the psychology of office occupants in relation to their working environment. This will ultimately lead to a site investigation on the studio culture of the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, followed by a proposal for the improvement of the current design approach as a possible future office typology.
