How is design consumed? Or is it consuming us? Cubes issue 92 takes a moment to digest design, to ruminate on how we use it to improve the ways we live, how it is increasingly become a sought-after currency, and how narratives are in ever-greater demand.

Shortlisted in the INDE.Awards 2018, Park Associates’ addition to Nanyang Girls’ High School blurs the boundaries between formal and informal modes of learning and breaks typological moulds.

How can design last longer, perform better, and do more? We probe how architects and designers are responding the realities of our time, addressing the value of endurance, and thinking ahead to potential futures.

Are bio-responsive offices the next step forward in workplace design? Two proposals by Carlo Ratti Associati and UNStudio suggest our workspaces could and should evolve in such a direction.