“Design is the last great competitive advantage”, - Seth Godin
In this urban corporate world, full of hustle-bustle, people want some moments of fresh air to breathe in. With the advancement of technology, machines are doing the larger chunk of work for leaving us free to enjoy our leisure. After returning from a brainstorming session at office we surrender ourselves to the soft and soothing surroundings of our homes which instantly absorb all our fatigue and anxiety of long stressful day and reenergize us. This home needs to be designed perfectly to offer such serene, soothing and rejuvenated feeling, and for that interior design plays the pivotal role.
Interior designers minutely examine every nook and corner of your loved apartment and make it look lavishly wrapped in luxury. As a painter needs a canvas to draw and color palette to examine which color will go with which background and which color will suit each entity of the picture, interior designers also need a proper canvas where they can put things and examine what is looking good, what is looking ravishing or something which is not at all suiting. Here comes the significance of concept labs, where interior designers can learn by trial and error and ultimately, they master the art of decorating sweet little homes.
The whole new concept of ‘concept labs’ has emerged to create an indispensable space to catalyze innovation, creativity and problem solving to unleash the creative super powers. These labs are serving as exclusive environments which provide complete freedom to discover, observe, leverage, and create new concepts and ideas for designers. The main aim of these labs is to serve as incubator by providing a platform where designing and industry experts will co-exist to share their expertise for empowering the entrepreneurs to enlarge the borders of design thinking and tends to create innovative designing solutions.
Concept labs are providing opportunity to the design entrepreneurs to know and understand about Space planning, floor planning and orientation of the apartment which help them to work in living space. It provides them a comprehensive suite of services, including- real-time monitoring, foundation building, systems & tools and offers a wide network which can attract global collaboration from many European and American countries. Today, the concept-labs are furnished with essential features to inspire the designers to embark on electrifying live experiences of designing, thereby extend the area of possibilities of industry.
To gain a thorough understanding about the ‘Concept Labs’ let’s take a deep dive into this article-
Unlocking Creativity to Meet Demanding Norms: In the exciting realm of concept labs, designers are fortified to think out of the box and take break from traditional designing norms which resulted in transformation of ordinary designs to extraordinary. To understand clearly, imagine you are picturing a team of designers through the concept labs to streamline your living room. Imagine, their innovative results are used as the lightings in your living rooms that are changing their colors according to your mood? This is how designers under concept labs are unleashing their creativity to challenge the regular demanding norms by succeeding the innovation.
Partnerships for Sharing the Expertise: In the active concept labs, designers can enter into the phase of collaboration where they can link forces with other designers from various backdrops who are all skilled with individual and exclusive set of abilities and insightful ideas. Envisage the result of project where the team of graphic creators, architects and product designers together collaborating in single platform for same project. Did you think the result will be like the regular projects? No, with the united skills, they can develop wonder - stirring structure with innovative resources. This collaborative disposition can cook a healthier dish for the designing world.
Enfolding the Multifaceted Designing Knowledge: In the concept lab ecosystem, the designers are not limited to any discipline, in fact they can push the boundaries from own disciplines and comprise the adventure of multidisciplinary designing culture. They can also get connected with product designing, architecture, graphic designing and more. They can bring the innovative designs by blending the miscellaneous ideas of various disciplines. The synthesis of expanded talents and ideas in concept labs leads to mind blowing design experiences and the results can challenge the current and future expectations.
Market Scenario
The market size of interior design in India was worth $28. 6 billion in 2022 and report from IMARC group estimated that it was expected to reach $51.4 billion by 2028 with growth rate of CAGR 10.3 percent between the periods of 2023 to 2028. Hence, the landscape of interior design is dynamic with all possible innovative factors and ideas. To revolutionize the designing industry furthermore, the concept labs are playing several impactful roles in all possible ways. By bringing designing experts, talents, and technology together, these labs are fostering the creative design solutions through enabling all freedom to push the boundaries which leads to the development and innovation.
"Design is not just about making things look good; it’s about making things work better" – Karim Rashid
Down the line
The brand-new concept of design labs is the meeting point of talented architects and aspiring interior designers for empowering design entrepreneurs, this platform is a birth place of many unknown talents and this talent can be extracted by providing needful guidance and mentorship. The labs focus on providing live experiences to entrepreneurs through offline classes, as well as offering a platform for other businesses and industry experts to share their expertise. Here, a novice with basic concept of interior design can come and enrich his experience and expertise by learning comprehensive range of topics, including interior design, environmental health & safety, modular furniture, global furniture trade, project management, general contracting, MEP, fire, building management systems, e-marketplace, and more. These labs are also teaching them to use technologies like Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality, and many other advanced applications to design with ease.
To summarize, the specialty of concept labs lies in their ability to encourage the designers to unleash the immense creative ability through expertise collaboration and knowledge distribution, at where designers can make scintillating designing solutions to cater people’s idea, experience and knowledge and their daily needs. Concept labs are reimaging the performances of designing objects and creating immersive experiences. They were prominently reminding us that designs are not just for pleasing eyes, it is about establishing long lasting experience for users and enhance the quality of lives. By embracing this new emergence of innovation, the interior design industry can continue to progress and reach heights in future with limitless possibilities.
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