Frame Magazine – Number 164: Recovery Mode

The Great Indoors

FRAME 164 - Winter - Recovery Mode: Why design needs a reset

In an era marked by loneliness and reduced physical activity, this issue focuses on how design can foster mental and physical wellbeing across key typologies – workplaces, retail, shows, hospitality and living spaces. We explore the rise of holistic and alternative wellness tools, as well as architectural approaches that prioritize healing for both people and the planet. From restorative architecture to spiritual spaces to wellbeing-focused tech, we examine how design can create environments and products that nurture, restore and inspire, providing sanctuary in today’s fast-paced world.

- Explore the products defining the market today, from tables that invite touch to seating that adapts to its users.

- Delve into the portfolios of future-forward practices exploring design as therapy – whether by fusing tech, neuroscience and nature to soothe the nervous system, or by positioning architecture as a catalyst for resilience and recovery.

- Gain insights into workplaces where scent supports wellbeing, buildings that cool us down without heating up the planet, retail environments where the body takes the lead, and spaces rewritten with women at the centre.

- Learn about the hotelified workplace revolution from experts in office design and wellbeing.

- Be inspired by cross-disciplinary creative projects that explore how we can restore not only our bodies and minds but also the wider world around us.

Language: English