The future of interiors

inside: Can you tell me how you see the future of interiors? What aspects will be most important in interior design in the future?

Rob Backhouse: As with most industries, technology is having an increasingly stronger impact on interior design and will continue to do so in the future. There are a growing number of applications and technologies that are helping designers work in more diverse and different ways. There is a greater emphasis on visualisation and clients being able to see and experience the design.

Google X’s Flux, for example, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up the design process at a phenomenal rate. Basically, you input quantitative data and AI makes everything happen within seconds. Ultimately, though, the production becomes quite different and a separate process.