Coronavirus, communications and the built environment
The built environment and COVID-19
The world’s most valuable sector is responding to the unprecedented challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic with creativity, innovation and leadership. To help you navigate this fast-changing world, ING produced ten intelligence briefings tracking these innovations and identifying emerging trends.
ING’s bulletin series provide analysis on ten key trends likely to impact on the future of the built environment.
At the beginning of the year, our sector looked very different: record UK employment, the highest volume of new starts in London and the hope of a post-Brexit bounce.
It is a reminder of how fragile and uncertain the world can be. Since sharing our first bulletin a few days after lockdown, ING has completed a phased return to work so we can be fully immersed in the product we are supporting – the city around us.
From here we are better able to assess how the built environment will change how we use buildings, infrastructure, and spaces.
Artist Morag Myerscough’s work thanking frontline workers at U+I’s Arts Building in Finsbury Park, north London
Over 20 weeks we have broadly analysed the pandemic’s impact on the built environment, exploring culture, creativity, collaboration, networking, content, inequality, climate and technology, and provided analysis on what narratives may be required to ensure the world’s most valuable sector retains its significance.
But what comes next? Will the crisis really change the buildings and places we work to create? Or will the new normal soon start to look very much like the old normal?
To tackle the themes that emerged from our bulletin and look to the future we hosted a virtual debate with an expert group of panellists from across the built environment.
Here you can watch the debate in full (below) and download all ten copies of our bulletins to read.
Coronavirus, communications and the built environment bulletins
Into atypical times
ING Bulletin #1 - 27.03.2020 (Lockdown)
Culture is still everywhere
ING Bulletin #2 - 09.04.2020 (Culture)
A creative recovery
ING Bulletin #3 - 24.04.2020 (Creativity)
A remote solidarity
ING Bulletin #4 - 07.05.2020 (Collaboration)
The future of networking
ING Bulletin #5 - 22.05.2020 (Networking)
Beyond hyperlocal content
ING Bulletin #6 - 08.06.2020 (Content)
Towards multiplicity of place
ING Bulletin #7 - 22.06.2020 (Inequality)
Green recovery convergence
ING Bulletin #8 - 06.07.2020 (Climate)
The digitalisation leap
ING Bulletin #9 - 20.07.2020 (Technology)
The return to cities
ING Bulletin #10 - 03.08.2020 (Cities)
“ING’s 10-part fortnightly intelligence publication, highlights how the built environment sector is responding to the coronavirus crisis, building resilience, and preparing for recovery. ”
Watch our virtual debate on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the future of the built environment with an expert group of panellists comprising:
Leanne Tritton, managing director, ING Media (chair) @leannetritton
Akil Scafe-Smith, head of design, RESOLVE
Basil Demeroutis, managing partner, FORE Partnership @Basil_FORE
Martyn Evans, creative director, U+I
Sadie Morgan, founder, Quality of Life Foundation
@INGmedia #INGdebates
For more about our fortnightly bulletin please contact: info@ING-media.com.