Places.

Evolving the built environment puts us at a unique intersection. We span technology, economics, local and global regulation, environmentalism, and the health and wellbeing of society. We craft the stage where lives – billions of them – play out every day.

The privilege, magnitude, complexity, and responsibility of this role can sometimes feel daunting. With every innovation, every development in how we work, and each impactful project, the need for more, better, newer seems to follow. The world feels fast, vast, and often out of control. Despite the pioneering developments they may feature, when projects take years to come to fruition, it can feel as though there’s always more that could be done.

So how do we combat that overwhelming feeling? How do we even begin to make changes that keep pace?

We explore.

Whether it’s stepping into the unknowns of the cosmos or challenging environs in humanitarian design, exploring research frontiers, reshaping an energy sector in crisis or claiming space and finding a voice in a newly accessible field...

It’s about boldly going.

Letting go of the limitations that police our capacity for creativity and innovation allows us to discover work-arounds and break down barriers.

Sculpting our future requires us to carve out room to think and to dream; to step outside the everyday where, often, blue-sky thinking can be optimised out of existence, with no place on the balance sheet. We must pencil it back in – in permanent marker.

After the thinking and talking, comes the doing, and disrupting the status quo to steer in a new direction and facilitate positive growth is no mean feat.

To meaningfully achieve it, we must be holistic; working together, sociably. Not pigeonholing ourselves. We’re all connected, and when the fine detail of the specialist and the overarching perspective of the generalist combine, there is great power, value and trickle-down of transformation.

Be it space, sport, science, security, sustainability, social justice. Let’s go – with dreams, with ideas, with design – where nobody has gone before.

Cover photo courtesy of Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock/James Cheadle Photo (above) by Vino Li on Unsplash

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The future belongs to the curious.

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