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By turns enlightening, funny and controversial, the talk began with Peter Bill giving his vision of the way we work and the ways in which office work may change over the next 20 years. Technology allowing people to work anywhere and essentially eliminating distance will, he said, have a considerable effect. But don't expect it to happen overnight. Bill predicts that offices as we know them today won't cease to exist altogether, but that people will begin to do more and more of their work at home and in public places.

Will Alsop listed '21 things to make London better', including having vacuum garbage systems built into streets, switching to electric busses ('not trams!'), and building a hospital so beautiful that it makes you almost want to be ill!

Then it was the turn of Vanessa Brady, chairman of the Society of British Interior Design, to talk about the way in which interior designers are often overlooked in the development process. 'Designers aren't considered in terms of property development,' she said, adding that interior designers are often only brought in towards the end of a project. Brady made the point that interior design is about much more than choosing furniture, and should be thought of as integral to the development process. Here, Here.