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Comment: The design story behind storytelling spaces
What exactly does a theatre consultant do, and why are they an important part of designing the spaces in which we tell the most dramatic stories? Charcoalblue’s Erin Shepherd tells us more.

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Context vs climate: Balancing cultural sensitivity and sustainability in modern architecture
Jeremy Deale, principal of creative powerhouse, Architectus explores how boundaries can be pushed in pursuit of high environmental and social performance, whilst retaining an aesthetic sympathetic to heritage, celebratory of context and expressive of contemporary architecture.

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Drawing parallels to dystopia with Unispace’s Neil Usher
Neil Usher, an Executive Consultant at Unispace, considers the ramifications of the ultra-agile and super transparent workplaces we see today and how they are not too far from a dystopian world outlined in Dave Eggers 2013 novel The Circle.