Promotion: technology brand HP has invited designers and architects to present a series of talks discussing how forward-thinking design can better meet user needs.
The brand's six webinars cover a range of topics, including changes in residential design following the coronavirus pandemic, designing for workplace environments, how drawing can be a powerful communicative tool, sustainable beach houses and the impact of small, everyday objects.
In the series, HP aims to showcase "how leading specialists are helping to build a better world through smarter design and construction".
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Swiss design studio Big-Game joined HP for the first webinar in the series, in which studio founders Augustin Scott de Martinville, Grégoire Jeanmonod and Elric Petit discussed "how everyday objects can improve the spaces where we live and work". The webinar describes a selection of Big-Game's furniture and products that represent the studio's ethos of improving living conditions through smart design and construction.
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Robert Palomba, co-founder of interior design studio Palomba Serafini Associati, presented a webinar on the conditions of post-pandemic living standards.
In the talk, Palomba explores changes in how we use our homes following the Covid-19 pandemic and how design can reflect evolving habits.
"A lot of people are starting to think of their homes in a different way," he said. "Before it was just a place to go to sleep or have a shower before going ou...