01 / Spaces & culture
Spaces shape behaviour
What changes when we think of a workplace as a setting for exchange? A starting point from Raphael’s interview with Vitra.
Raphael Gielgen / Future of work at Vitra
Raphael
Gielgen.
Craft. Spaces.
The wider world.
Trained as a carpenter. Exploring how we work, learn and live — through research at Vitra and encounters around the world.
A closer look.
A wider world.
Architecture study / Declan Sun
Exchange image — not a documented research visit
01 / His perspective
A carpenter’s eye.
A world of questions.
Raphael looks at change through the places we build and the people who use them. His research at Vitra connects architecture, technology and the everyday experience of work.
From the workbench
to the world
A practical beginning.
Thinking begins with making.
Carpentry came first. Furniture and working environments followed. That practical beginning is part of the story behind his view of the future.
02 / A way of looking
01
Observe.
02
Think.
Connect what seems far apart.
Architecture, technology and the ways we live.
03
Make.
04 / Selected field notes
Notes from
an open mind.
A personal archive in the making.
Three editorial starting points, with their original sources.
02 / Craft & learning
The value of making
A carpenter’s beginnings, a lifelong appetite for learning. An editorial thread inspired by Raphael’s reflections on his early working life.
03 / Encounters & horizons
Beyond the familiar
Research as a practice of meeting people who question the way things are. An introduction to the learning journeys.
Archive preview / Concept titles and summaries, not yet published essays by Raphael.
05 / Selected work
A project from Raphael’s
research at Vitra
WORK PANORAMA
Observations brought into conversation. The Vitra WORK PANORAMA connects emerging patterns in the world of work.
A project from Raphael’s research at Vitra, presented within its own context and attribution.
06 / Speaking
Raphael.
In the room.
Observations from a changing world, brought into conversation with your audience.
Meet the speaking perspective ↗A perspective.
A conversation.
Keynotes & conversations
with Raphael Gielgen