What does the future of smart spaces look and feel like? Does smart design include wellbeing? How will space-making adapt to an exponentially connected future?
Our innate curiosity for what’s next in human wellness and design took us in search of outside industry experts and case studies that could potentially answer these questions and provide us all with actionable insight, in particular, architects, designers, suppliers and brand decision makers. Each of our previous articles – from wellness dining to biophilic design and sensory architecture – tackles a complex design topic through the lens of interdisciplinary experts.
With everyone talking about technology, electrification and automation, we wanted to ask experts at the forefront of technological innovation, if this first wave of smart design includes (or can include) a space for smart wellbeing? Pre-Covid, wellbeing and mental health had already become a rapidly expanding field of interest for designers and architects alike. Now, it’s probably easier to ask who isn’t talking about it!
t’s no large leap to imagine a smart design that connects to your wearable device, and responds according to the data gathered. A space could react to a day spent staring at screens with subtly warmer lighting, to help you get better nights sleep. The opportunities for wellness focused smart design are ever expanding.
One of the best ways for any industry to improve is by learning from other sectors. By looking outside of our box, we as an industry can catch up to and even surpass the expectations of our guests. For brands, that means finding wellness-driven experiences that can be adopted and adapted to the complex needs of their guests. For designers, that means finding new ways to augment the physical boundaries of space and scarcity of resources by augmenting experiences with scalable technologies.