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Design Forecast - 6 Ways Cities are Reclaiming Public Space for the People

Rapid urbanization, demographic change, and the maturing digital age continue to challenge the spatial distribution...

2016 Design Forecast - Workplace

Workplace Forecast: Liberated from old constraints, prepared to go where their talents are best supported, an urban...

Design Forecast Local

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2019 Annual Report

At Gensler, we are one community. Our community is focused on improving the human experience, guided by a vision...

2018 Annual Report

Coworking Isn't Just for Start Ups

Coworking is disrupting the real estate industry as the two primary players — developers and coworking providers —...

Designing for Disassembly

Researching how the process of disassembly can implemented at scale to support industry demands and sustainable...

A New Model for the Public Library

An exploration into the issues impacting the public library and how design can support its changing role in...

Gensler Research + Innovation Awards 2017

Research is the fuel that drives innovation, and innovation is the cornerstone of design excellence. That’s the...

Soul-Centered Design

Can holistic design strategies improve health and healing? A “soul-centered” design approach that aligns the design...

Getting Ahead of Change

ROUNDTABLE — In this age of uncertainty and rapid change, what actions are global companies taking to prepare their...

Preparing for the Future Now with Resilient Design

As global leaders come together to address how the collective community can help reduce CO2 emissions, we understand...

Setting the Bar High for Design Excellence

Gensler's annual Design Excellence Awards help helps set a standard that all our design teams can aspire to. The...

The Designer's Toolkit for Psychological Well-Being

Developing a toolkit to to help designers, strategists, and clients create workplace design that better promotes...

We Promote Good Design by Celebrating It

Gensler's annual Design Excellence Awards help propel the quality of design ideas and solutions we provide clients...

Design Forecast Dallas: People-Centered Workplaces Are Driving Connected, Resilient Cities

Gensler Dallas hosted a panel discussion exploring global trends in workplace and office building design, and how...

Maker Culture Brings the Power of Design To Life

Back in the early 1980’s, I got to experience firsthand the wild and vivid performances of Survival Research...

What We're Listening to Now

Five Gensler designers in the firm’s brand design, retail, hospitality, and other lifestyle practitioners share the...

Design Ideas for the Post-Pandemic Public Library

Public libraries have long served as welcoming and equitable settings that offer important community resources, but...

Education Research: How Do We Improve Libraries?

For starters, 44 percent of the students we surveyed said that they spend the majority of their learning...

Recap of Chicago Ideas Week 2013

Each October in Chicago, approximately 25,000 people convene at Chicago Ideas Week, a premier annual gathering of...

Graphic Learners

An investigation of integrating graphic design into school environments to enrich educational opportunities.

Measuring Experience

Gensler researchers take on the challenge: quantifying the value of experiential design.

How the Pandemic Has Shaped Our Understanding of the Trading Floor

Now that COVID-19 has challenged the norm, Gensler is examining how design should support trading floor activity.

Designing for Each Learner Through Digital Experience

As we design spaces for learning it is imperative that we integrate digital experiences into them thoughtfully; to...

Shaping the Future of Cities

Gensler’s top clients, design visionaries, and thought leaders co-create the future.

Employee Engagement: A Core Business Strategy

Successful business leaders realize that having engaged employees is not an HR program, but a core business...

Residence Halls: The Key to Creating Community on College Campuses

The Garage at Northwestern, The major question that college leaders are asking us is: “How does your project build...

#Thank You for Sharing: How Social Media is Reshaping Work

The growth of social media holds significant ramifications for design. Social media is founded on the principle of...

What's Old is New Again: Circumnavigating the Circular Economy

After conducting research using our own offices as case studies and analyzing the current client interest in the...

Re-Designing Law for an Uncertain Future

Is this what a legal office of the future could look like? As one of the leaders of the law firm practice here at...

Germany Workplace Survey 2019

A deep dive into the changing German workplace and how they can improve productivity and satisfaction through...

Emotional Security in the Workplace

A new white paper from the Gensler Research Institute found that creating an environment where employees feel...

The State of STEM: Aligning Design with Pedagogy

The Dwight-Englewood School. Image ? Gensler Discussions of “STEM” have been on the rise for the better part of the...

Inspiring Learning: STEM Center Fosters Learning in Unexpected Places

This post is the fifth in Reimagining Learning, a series that will look beyond the classroom in a quest to explore...

Rethinking the Binary Restroom

How can we design restrooms to be safe, comfortable, and inclusive?

Experience Reigns

How does design transform the user experience, and can we measure and track its business impact?

Creating an Organizational Appetite for Sustainable Design

As people’s attitudes towards sustainability evolve alongside new modes of working, there is a real need for...

Design Forecast New York: Designing a Better World: Equitable and Actionable Solutions

Gensler’s New York office hosted a discussion on how we can build a better, more equitable city for future...

Design Forecast La Crosse: The Future of Work

Gensler’s La Crosse office hosted a panel discussion on workplace trends, including tips for connecting a mobile...

Climate Reprogramming

Fa?ade design is one example where performance, technology, and code changes come together to positively impact the...

Good Design Alone Won’t Eradicate Mindless Meetings

Most of our recent workplace projects have dramatically increased the amount of meeting space available to the...

How to Design Hospital-Ready Hotels

The current pandemic has proven that hotels can play a variety of essential roles in times of crisis.

Experiential Design is Changing the Rules of the Workplace

Client insights from Gensler Morristown's panel discussion on workplace performance.

Brand Engagement: Getting to the “Why”

The subtle details of design can embody clients’ missions, motivations, heritage and history. Shown here: Fourth...

Design Forecast Charlotte: Designing for the Displaced

Gensler Charlotte hosted a discussion about critical issues of affordable housing and homelessness facing our...

Empowering Citizens to Transform Their Cities

Here are seven tips for creating successful community outreach and connecting with your constituents during the...

Gensler Design Forecast Beijing: Shaping the Future of Cities

Gensler’s Beijing office hosted a panel discussion on topics ranging from social impact to connected cities.

Design as an Innovation Super Power

Innovation is an overused word and an underexplored practice.

Gensler's New D.C. Office Celebrates the Design Process

D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray helps Gensler open its new Washington, D.C., office. Image ? Gensler Gensler’s Washington...

Delivering Creativity on a Global Scale

Our firm revolves around a shared commitment to design excellence and a culture of entrepreneurial self-sustaining...

Delivering Creativity on a Global Scale

Design innovation. Global talent and knowledge. Helping our clients achieve their goals and being their trusted...

The Post-Book Librarian?

How do library leaders see the future of their institutions? Librarians see a future in which their role, and the...

What is the Future of the Museum?

What is the future of the museum? Museums are evolving to accommodate active, individualistic, and tech‐driven new...

Evolution of Creative Learning at Work

An investigation into how organizations can trigger, promote, and sustain learning behaviors.

Experiential ROI

What makes for a positive retail experience?

Emotional Security in the Workplace

Investigating which relational conditions allow organizations to thrive.

Building Boomtown

Are today’s communities prepared for our rapidly growing, healthy, and savvy aging population?

A Path Toward Net Zero Energy Buildings

Creating a roadmap for 80% reduction in predicted energy performance by 2030.

Back to School: What Campuses Can Teach Us About Workplaces

Photos courtesy of Gensler A hyper business climate, recession realities, and an increasingly global stage are only...

The End of Efficiency?

The global “War for Talent” rages on. In spite of the enormous ramifications in other areas of corporate life, the...

Planning for a Post-COVID Return to Campus

We're reflecting on the factors education leaders should consider in planning a return to school post-COVID-19, and...

The Future of Work

Investigating the evolution of office work, and its impact on the urban environment.

A High-Performance Place for Learning

Exploring the future of education via new takes on the learning environment.

The Dynamics of Place in Higher Education

Are educators and students on the same page? Students and educators agree that education space needs to foster...

Uniting Healthcare and Community: Connecting the Dots

This post is part of a series related to Uniting Healthcare + Community. Like healthcare, design is about the...

Preparing for the Design-ful Economy

Mark Kelly, vice president of student affairs at Columbia College Chicago, helps lead a discussion about how...

Beyond 50 Shades of 'Greige': Seven Ideas to Create an Inspiring Workplace

Gray and beige are two colors I see most often in many of today’s workplaces. I’m not the only one, either. A client...

Employee Engagement: A Core Business Strategy

Successful business leaders realize that having engaged employees is not an HR program, but a core business strategy.

The New Wave: Innovative Learning Environments

The Garage at Northwestern, This post is part of our series on Academic Incubators. Innovative learning environments...

Stay Nimble and Expect Change: A Conversation About the Financial Services Industry

In the midst of a topsy-turvy economic and financial landscape, corporate real estate (CRE) teams at financial...

Managing for Creativity

As our world becomes more urbanized and connected, a company’s competitiveness and speed determine success. To keep...

Designing the Unexpected

Gensler San Francisco gathered a diverse panel of experts to consider the questions we should all be asking...

Designing Intergenerational Communities

Building upon our BoomTown framework to understand the essential elements for multigenerational communities.

Why Not-For-Profits Deserve a Utopian Workplace

Not-for-profit employees are four times more likely to be motivated by mission than the average employee in another...

Learning Ecologies: Can the City Be Our Classroom?

Johns Hopkins Fast Forward Innovation Hub encourages “tinkering” to accelerate commercialization of ideas. (Alan...

Legal Innovation Lab

How will lawyers work in the future? Law firms are ready for change, and are seeking progressive, tech-enabled...

Dear Office Worker, The Future Is Free-Address

CBRE Los Angeles Headquarters, /Ryan Gobuty Dear Office Workers, It’s about your stuff. I’m talking about the...

Asia Workplace Survey 2016

As Asian companies focus on competitiveness in a global market, they must explore a new, more balanced workplace...

Attracting Gen Z

How can retailers reach young consumers, from millennials to Gen Z? From user-generated content to avatars, viral...

Education 3.0: Life After Tech

The Dwight-Englewood School. The educational technology arms race is on. It all started in 1991 when a certain...

The 2005 U.K. Workplace Survey

Are poorly designed offices eroding productivity? Over half of UK workers don’t believe their office is designed to...

A Workplace Designed for the Innovation Economy

Fueled by new technologies, global markets, urbanization and changing demographics, the ability to drive new...

Next Gen Worker OR Next Gen Workplace?

There is an awful lot of bandwidth being taken up by the "generational debate," and a lot of this has focused on...

Using This Moment to Improve City Life

The current crisis raises serious questions that we’ll need to address before we get back to anything resembling...

Toward Humane Healthcare: Emotional Considerations in Regaining Patient Trust

The healthcare experience is personal, so we must consider and design for the wide range of emotions, fears...

It's Time for Office Amenities to Get to Work

As the office landscape continues to evolve and companies grant their employees more freedom and choice to work...

Building BoomTown: Ageless Communities That Are Inclusive and Purpose-Driven

This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for all ages. The evidence is...

Show Me the Meaning! Designing the Not-for-Profit Workplace.

As part of a blog series exploring Gensler’s 2016 Workplace Surveys, this post examines findings specific to the...

Let’s talk about the Workplace: It’s complicated!

Digital nomads hold unique expectations for what workplaces should provide. I am a digital nomad. I have traveled...

Doubling Down on Our Commitment to Resilience

With hundreds of millions of square feet of buildings and interior design projects in the pipeline annually, we...

Designing for All Learners: 5 Myths Debunked

Instead of designing to the mythical “average learner” and adapting to accommodate outliers, it’s time we flip the...

The Water Is Rising

With thoughtful resilience strategies, coastal cities can be part of the solution to deal with climate change.

Maximizing ROI for Sports Stadium Sponsorships

What strategies will keep stadiums viable? Successful stadium designs engage sponsors early, integrate tech...

From Environmental Racism to Climate Justice

Here's how architects and designers can deliberately shape the built environment to further climate justice, combat...

The Set List: The Age of Empathy

Editor’s note: this blog is part of a series discussing trends and insights into the world around us. “If I had...

Q&A With Aleksandar Sasha Zeljic

Chicago's skyline, like those in cities around the world, is about to be populated by more high rise buildings...

How Companies Can Support Work-From-Home Best Practices in the Long Term

As businesses eye a strategic and safe return to the office, here are the operational mechanisms they should...

Building Blocks of Change

Workshop participants establish the building blocks of change. Inspiration and innovation happen when ideas...

Creating Meaningful Customer Relationships in the Midst of a Merger

A merger has a profound impact on the customer experience, but also provides an opportunity to re-focus on what is...

The Wonder Years: Creating a Middle School Launching Pad

. In the 1980’s, the television series, “The Wonder Years” chronicled the trials and tribulations of adolescence...

Maybe the Focus Problem is a Collaboration Problem

In order to enable focus at the office, meetings need to be run in a more effective manner. Every week it seems a...

BoomTown: A Future for All Ages

Image Jeff Sheldon, unsplash.com This blog is part of a series, BoomTown, examining how we design communities for...

What TMCx Could Mean for Houston’s Future

This post is the third in Academic Incubators, a series in which Gensler designers will explain what academic...

5 ‘Out of the Box’ Strategies for the Retail Real Estate Market

Here are five recommendations for retail reuse to align under-utilized real estate assets with growing community...

Will Campus Life Translate to a Virtual Environment?

COVID-19 has forced us to embrace a new reality rooted exclusively in virtual interactions. While we reflect on how...

Building a More Inclusive University Environment

Small universities are having a hard time providing physical space for their diverse student populations. These...

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WORK ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL

CTBUH 2016 Conference: Vertical Urbanization

With 42 million inhabitants, set to grow to 120 million by 2050, China’s Pearl River Delta is experiencing...

Chance Encounters: The Winning Ticket to the Innovation Lottery?

Every organization seeks innovation in order to differentiate its products and services. But how do you engender...

Reports of the Death of the Workplace Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

For millions of office workers around the world, work has been consciously uncoupled from its usual location for the...

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LIFESTYLE AND THE FUTURE OF CITIES

Can Cities Make Us Healthy? (A Response)

In my last post on the connection between cities and health I outlined what I see as both an opportunity and a...

The Office Strikes Back

Follow #bcofutures on Twitter to see the discussion surrounding this event and hear comments from contributors. The...

How Climate Change Impacts Our Health

Climate change has a direct impact on our health and wellbeing now and it will become only more acute in the future...

Making Global Business Work

Documenting strategies to improve government relations in emerging markets.

The Culture of Innovation

An investigation into the cultural conditions for innovation within organizations.

Hack the City

Redesigning our cities through active community engagement.

How to Build Culture in a Virtual World

As COVID-19 causes the world to rethink the communal workplace, for businesses it’s also a philosophical and...

Community Impact Is a Key Strategy in Returning to the Office

Community impact has the potential for positive, long-lasting benefits on our workforce and our culture.

Wellbeing in the Workplace Means More Cake for Everyone

Graphic ? Gensler Wellbeing in the workplace means more cake for everyone. Yes, you read that correctly! We don’t...

Catalyzing a New Era for Chicago’s Higher-Ed Community

America’s Urban Campus emerged as a seminal idea at a Dialogues panel discussion out of Gensler’s Chicago office...

Designing Intergenerational Communities

In partnership with the Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging, Gensler teams from Los Angeles and...

Engage: The Future of Museums

Museums have the power to excite, educate, and enlighten. How this power should be used — and shared — is very much...

Burden of Future Proof: Facile Learning Environments in a Tech-Savvy Age

Gensler's Chicago office recently hosted the first installment of the Dialogues with Gensler series. Dialogues with...

What Going Back to School Might Look Like

What does the future of education look like, and what should schools be doing now to prepare?

Dear Office Worker, The Future Is Free-Address

Workplaces are shifting from endless rows of cubes to a free-address work environment that allows you to work...

Brands Go Global

Why do some brands thrive in new markets while others fall flat? An understanding of local context and an openness...

Revolutionizing Retail Entitlements

Can we extract value from retail entitlements? An application-based knowledge management tool streamlines retail...

Japan Workplace Survey 2020

We analyzed the Japanese workplace to address and improve workplace quality and experience.

Museum Experience Index?

An investigation into designing a memorable and inclusive museum experience for a multigenerational audience.

Incubating Entrepreneurs at UC San Diego’s Basement

#tbt to The Basement circa 2014 (above). We hope you like what we've done with the place. #UCSDBasement #startups...

The Evolution of Workplace in India

Investigating changes in the Indian workplace alongside its cultural, political, and economic history.

Academic Incubators Are Seeding a New Wave of Innovation

Academic incubators are becoming engines for new economies, knowledge networks, and R&D.

A Restroom for Everyone

Restroom access affects everyone: people with medical needs or disabilities, caretakers, transgender people, parents...

A Workplace Designed for the Innovation Economy

The ability to drive new innovation is becoming an essential requirement for organizations to stay competitive...

Trends in the Legal Workplace

Will the legal office adapt to new working realities? Next-generation legal workplaces must align with an emerging...

A Restroom for Everyone

We documented the historical, political, legislative, and cultural impacts of designing gender-inclusive restrooms...

Tech Trends of 2016: Campus Co-Working

Editor’s note: this blog is part of a series on 2016 tech trends. Tech firms are playing a significant role in...

Healthcare Is a Team Sport: Four Healthcare Accelerators Changing the Game

The Johns Hopkins accelerator, FastForward East. Editor’s note: This post is the first in a series on the rise of...

The Resurgence of the Department Store: Guest Experience

Over the past year Kathleen Jordan, a principal in Gensler’s New York office and leader in the firm’s Retail...

Gensler Partners with the City of Bogotá on Community Center Initiative

Gensler Partners with the City of Bogotá on Community Center Initiative

Hospitality with a Human Touch

Hotels are embracing authenticity, curation, and personalization to attract guests.

Gensler Las Vegas Proposes The Cashman Battery

A view of the Ring, an education center of information and communication at the heart of the new Cashman Battery...

Education Gets Its Game On

From middle schools to universities, the push is on to speed up learning and spark people’s creativity. Tech figures...

Retail Centers: Connect or Crumble

Anyone who knows me will attest that I’m an optimist. In fact I’m genuinely excited by many things happening in...

Everyday Changes, Extraordinary Savings

I have previously written about the challenges facing federal real estate managers, and it continues to be tough...

Designing a Campus to Drive a Culture of Innovation

Confidential Financial Services Firm, Photography by Christopher Barrett, This post is part of a series of blog...

Cognitive Buildings: Smartening Up for the Future

Imagine your future office. Before you get there, a parking space is reserved for your car. As you enter the...

Factors Fueling a New Era for Campus Planning

Northwestern's new San Francisco satellite space is one example of how the institution is integrating its global...

Architecture's New Realities in a Virtual World

The Virtual Reality revolution we were promised in the early 1990s is happening now. If you're old enough to...