Capture It! – designs for a future workplace

Capture It! – designs for a future workplace is presented by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in association with the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre at the Royal College of Art.

This exhibition illustrates the two-year collaboration between Royal College of Art designers Harriet Harriss and Suzi Winstanley and the Kyushu University Faculty of Design. Harriet and Suzi worked closely with colleagues at Kyushu in an architectural study exploring the influence of demographic change on the workplace.

The exhibition looks at how older office workers can share their experience through interaction with others in the knowledge-driven workplace of 2020. The project is described in its four phases – research, interaction, collaboration and design – and the exhibition ends with the development of a series of prototypes and a set of principles to help designers address the needs of older workers in a more sensory and sophisticated way.

The exhibition launches The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation/The Japan Society 2006 Seminar Series of Life’s Chances – demographic change in the UK and Japan, a year-long series of talks and discussions on how British and Japanese societies respond to major population change.

The Capture It! project was supported by The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in 2004.