Making workspaces inclusive through design | News | Architonic

Hands up who knows what inclusive design is? It is, after all, something all interior professionals, be they office designers or the architects of public buildings, need to know, but is not always easily defined. Gail Napell, who is a sustainability and inclusive design strategist at Gensler – the San Francisco-based leaders in interior architecture – has answers. ‘Inclusive design makes spaces and places healthier, safer and more convenient for everyone,’ she begins, during a conversation with John Scott, a workplace design strategist at office furniture specialists Haworth, a brand equally entrenched in the topic.

So far, so cosy, but perhaps not in itself ground-breaking as a design strategy. Surely all interior architecture has this human-centric intention built in, so to speak.  You can be sure, however, that when you drill down into the detail of this evolving concept, there are complexities that wholly justify the dedication of roles to it within firms such as Gensler and Haworth.