As we head towards the end of 2023, an eventful year that could be defined as the year of “shifts”, we take a look at how global events and trends impacted the design of interior spaces. Looking back, people questioned everything, and the architectural practice was no exception. A new voice was given to nations often forgotten as architects searched for alternative ways of designing and building.
Climate change and its repercussions remained a centralized theme as global temperatures reached unprecedented records in almost every country. Global geopolitical events and what was often described as a “slow global recession” have put the world at standstill on multiple occasions. In terms of technology, although AI took the world by storm towards the end of 2022 with the introduction of ChatGPT
