Entering a new era of design’s influence over end-user wellbeing, safety and behaviour

From basic environmental manipulation to the complete remodelling of capital cities, demands for end-user safety and wellness have long acted as a spur for new thinking and form in interior design and architecture.

As we move beyond the early stages of the outbreak and take stock of the rudimentary adaptations to communal spaces made in response, where does this panel see more sophisticated, elegant and effective long-term innovation occurring? How will this period affect designers’ formal responsibility in safeguarding end-user wellbeing, and what ultimate power do they really have over their behaviour?