Developed over the past year by Perkins&Will, Portland and the Royal College of Art’s superFUTURES, 'The Future We Build' is a playbook that emerged from a series of roundtables that brought together clients, partners, designers, changemakers, and business leaders. Together, we asked them to step outside their silos and ask harder questions about the future of the built environment.
The playbook captures what surfaced: seven opportunities urging us to design differently - prompting us to move past function and consider how places influence social, emotional and cultural outcomes. We have more agency than we think; the spaces we create can fragment or connect, limit or inspire, isolate or bring people together.
