{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Space by Stansons","title":"Designing offices that feel more human with Lizzie Hand","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1413,"description":"✨ Subscribe to Show Notes for more from Space by Stansons at https://www.stansons.co.uk/space ✨\nThis week on Space by Stansons, Guy visits Victoria Park with designer Lizzie Hand to explore how nature, creativity and thoughtful workplace design can shape the way people feel and work.\nJoined by Lizzie Hand of Thirdway, the conversation explores how natural light, sound, texture and even scent can bring a stronger sense of the outdoors into the workplace. Lizzie challenges familiar nature led trends such as moss walls and explains why successful design is less about filling an office with plants and more about creating an experience that feels natural and personal.\nAs they walk through the park, Guy and Lizzie discuss collaboration without hierarchy, the importance of zoning quiet and energetic areas, and why practical details such as power, location and layout determine whether shared spaces are genuinely used. Lizzie also reflects on creativity, explaining why ideas often arrive when the pressure is off and how different people need different ways to decompress.\nWhether you’re designing workplaces, leading a team or simply interested in how physical environments affect creativity and wellbeing, this episode offers practical ideas for building spaces around the people who use them.\nIn this episode:\n• Creative ways to bring nature indoors beyond plants and moss walls.• How natural light, sound, texture and scent shape the workplace experience.• Creating collaborative spaces without hierarchy.• Why zoning quiet, focused and energetic areas matters.• Designing around different ways people work and decompress.• Why the best ideas often arrive when the pressure is off.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nJPvj68bReSmAJ9SKY527RT_ixrcvU7rvF8C76NLhRE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83YmI1/MjI5ZTcwNDQ4YmVi/MGQzZjQ0NWVhZmIy/MzJjMy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}