Orgatec comes but once every other year and we can’t wait for the innovations in furniture, lighting, flooring, acoustics and technology that await. Manufacturers will doubtless be addressing the issues of mobility, digitalisation and rapid social change that have been on the horizon for a while now. So expect launches aplenty for meeting rooms, breakout spaces, lounges and seminar rooms.
A glimpse in the future of work can be found in the Competence Centre in Hall 11, where Stuttgart-based design studio Ippolito Fleitz Group has come up with an installation entitled ‘RE/WORK Moments of Inspiration’ while in the Passage between Halls 10 and 11 there will be an exhibition featuring European designers picks’ of the best outdoor working solutions from Scandinavia. There is more than a nod to the concept of co-working too, with a special ‘Smart Co-working Lobby’ curated by Michael O.
