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Working between disciplines, Vitra leveraged their network of scientists and designers to help inform their design decisions based on empirical evidence from research in public and personal health. Collectively, all four issues contain valuable information on workplace design and serve as a bellwether to the lasting changes in work in a post-pandemic society.  \r\n\r\nIssue 01, ‘The Road Back to the Office’, covers both temporary and long-term solutions to offices. Comparing the change to that of airport security following 9/11, Vitra notes increased hygiene standards, contactless zones and team-specific environments as structural changes in the workplace that are likely to remain permanent. In addition to these long-term solutions, Vitra also has measures that can be quickly implemented to make an office ‘corona-safe’ including one-way transit systems, decreasing office density to ensure social distancing, the use of dividers and screens and having teams work in shifts. Open-plan layouts are shown before and after, with examples including Vitra’s Joyn and Tyde products as model workstations. The issue also includes an essay by Alice Rawsthorn on the evolution of the home office and comments on working from home by designer Jonathan Olivares.  \r\n","physicalDescription":"The magazine cover has an illustration in pastel colours of office buildings, cut through to reveal working spaces within. The image is colourful and playful, with animals including an elepant, giraffe, bear and penguins moving about the office spaces along with humans. Across the top a small yellow plane pulls a banner that reads: 'Getting ready for the new normal', and along a road at the bottom text reads 'The road back to the office'. 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The e-paper covered new Covid-safe working practices and encouraged ‘blended’ working – both from home and from the office.\n\nPrinted publication \n‘The Road Back to the Office’, e-paper issue 01, 2020 \nDesigned by AKFB with illustrations by Atelier CTJM \nPublished by Vitra, Switzerland \nPrinted paper \nGiven by Vitra AG \nMuseum no. CD.1-2021\n\nThe object sits in the 'Automation and Labour' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.","date":{"text":"17/06/2021","earliest":"2021-06-17","latest":"2021-06-17"}}],"partNumbers":["CD.1-2021"],"accessionNumberNum":"1","accessionNumberPrefix":"CD","accessionYear":2021,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-10","recordCreationDate":"2020-12-21","availableToBook":false}}