Raphael Gielgen researches the future of work and working environments.

His workplace is the world. To do this, he travels around the globe like few other people. Always with the question of what the nature of changed knowledge work will look like in five or ten years’ time. Every year, he visits more than 100 companies, start-ups, universities and research institutions in the USA, Europe and Asia. He documents the findings and experiences from his travels on a “panorama”, a map of trends and patterns from around the world.

What drives him is his curiosity for architecture, technology and social change in the context of the working world of tomorrow.

“Work in front of a computer is usually invisible. Every company can think about architecture differently and try to make work visible and localise the community.”

Raphael Gielgen lecture topics

How quickly does the future become the present?

• How is the globalised world of work changing and what impact will this have on future business models?
• What are the key technologies, new working and organisational models of the future?
• What role will the individual, the collective and the community play in the company?

Raphael Gielgen speaks at conferences, festivals and events and generously shares his insights and experiences in more than 20 countries every year. Knowledge work is facing the biggest transformation in its young history. Companies are faced with designing the future and managing the present at the same time.

But where will we actually work tomorrow, with whom, how and, above all, on what? Raphael Gielgen deals with these questions every day.