What if you invited your team to practice designing the future for a single afternoon.

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The architects of the Audi Urban Future Initiative gathered Thursday night to discuss the four-year process for designing New York City of the future at the Openhouse Gallery.

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Research staff member Jennifer Lai told CNN that designing workspaces for the future is an enormous area of research.

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With the next major contract now decades off, the Boeing team will be dispersed, leaving America (like Europe) with only one consortium capable of designing and building warplanes in the future.

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In fact, Just Mobile could be designing furniture or even lamps in the future.

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And I would like to ask you to come visit it and see the devastation caused by this management of tribal resources, and help elevate tribes to the same level of states when we're dealing with the remediation of Superfund sites so we can have the same voice as the state in designing a better future and environment for our people.

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Both predicting the future of work and designing for it (whether as a corporate HR executive, a coffee shop owner, a vendor of virtual-work technologies or an entrepreneur developing a co-working space) involves thinking about a messy and complicated bundle of ideas with at least a couple of dozen major dimensions.

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"We are satisfied now that the decision has been made so that our membership and management can focus on designing, engineering and manufacturing the finest-quality products for the future success of the Chrysler Group, " Gettelfinger said.

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Future-proofing a city means creating the markets for green businesses and green technologies, and designing the space and facilities to support them.

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