Dezeen promotion: studying strategic interior design at IE University has enabled designer Borja Esparza Pamplona to "future-proof" his practice and respond to the rapidly changing demands that his clients have on their offices in light of the pandemic.
Esparza Pamplona is a designer, as well as a workplace and change management consultant at JLL in Madrid, who graduated from the IE School of Architecture and Design at IE University with a master in strategic interior design.
According to Esparza Pamplona, the course provided him with the foresight to design interiors that meet not just present but also likely future needs.
"Thanks to the extensive skills and knowledge I acquired in the masters at IE, I now possess the tools needed to respond to my clients' changing demands with a completely updated viewpoint," he said. "In one word, my perspective is now future-proof." As part of his masters at IE University, Esparza Pamplona designed an innovation hub for Spain's national railway network Renfe (top image), which is surrounded by stepped seating (above)
This, he said, is particularly crucial given the unprecedented speed at which office culture changed and remote working was adopted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Covid-19 has pushed us to make a leap forward in embracing new ways of working, incorporating remote work into our day-to-day professional lives and accelerating a process that would have taken a few years to normalise,"...