‘Editing’ the office workspace
<p>In spring 2021, AQ had an all-hands workshop about our Tokyo office. The mothership was no longer getting the kind of human presence that makes a space feel alive and loved. The air felt stale and the post-box overflowed with pizza flyers. With the days of a regular commute to a central location behind us, we recognized it was time to reimagine the role of the studio space in our design practice.</p>
<p>By the end, two things had become clear.</p>
<p>First, constrained to the home, each of us were seeking spaces that support changes in modes of work or thought, with some of the affordances of working from a café, from a friend’s house, or from a different city. More subtly, we were yearning to gather, to be able to convene in celebration of us, and to have access to a sanctuary, shielded from the friction of daily life in the city.</p>
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