As part of Clerkenwell Design Week in May, workspace designer and manufacturer Haworth hosted a seminar titled Work, Interrupted to discuss the future of office design

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Chaired by Jennifer Celesia, Haworth's director of corporate marketing and communications-Europe, she posed to the seminar's panel the questions: What exactly is interrupting our working practices; how important is the emergence of a new social environment that brings a new approach to the meaning of work, and how do we relate to it? Oliver Marlow from Studio TILT said he felt we are in the middle of a 'perfect storm' that is witnessing the growing influence as decision makers of Generation Y, the shift in economic power from West to East, the uncertainties in the wake of the 2008 crash and the emergence of new business models. He also questioned the popular idea that new technologies had given designers a new lease of life.