Enabling organisations to thrive through spatial intelligence, behavioural insight and human-centred design
We deliver intelligent, human-centred workplaces that enable measurable improvements in performance, collaboration, wellbeing, resilience and operational capability.
We help organisations transform how people, places and systems work together, creating future-ready workplaces and estates through evidence-based insight, interdisciplinary expertise and practical innovation.
Our clients across UK, Europe & APAC
Who we are
Reimagining how people, places & systems work together
We are UK based consultancy helping organisations across Europe and APAC understand how environments shape behaviour, performance and well-being, and how to design spaces that truly support the people who use them.
Our approach blends spatial intelligence, behavioural insight, evidence-based design and collaborative innovation to deliver healthier, more productive and more resilient workplaces.
Peoplespace is a interdisciplinary transformation and innovation leader with over 20 years’ experience across corporate, public, healthcare, education, heritage and technology sectors, specialising in workplace strategy, behavioural insight , spatial systems, design integration and organisational change.
Our research partners
Our Services
Intelligence
Spatial intelligence for better decision-making
We integrate behavioural insight, movement patterns, environmental factors and utilisation analytics to help organisations improve performance, safety and operational efficiency.
Our intelligence offering is delivered through AZRIA Anonymous Zone Risk & Interaction Analytics, providing evidence-based insight into how people navigate, experience and utilise their environments.
Productivity
Designing spaces that enable people to do their best work
We apply human-centred, evidence-based and affordance-driven design to create environments that encourage and support collaboration, inclusion, hybrid working, smart working and improved service delivery.
This is powered by CEAD, our Collaborative Environment Affordance-based Design framework.
Innovation
Solving complex problems through interdisciplinary intelligence
We bring people. property, and technology insight together to accelerate organisational change, strengthen cross-functional collaboration and improve decision making.
This is supported by CPIM, our Collaborative Polymathic innovation Management system.
AZRIA
Anonymous Zone Risk & Interaction Analytics
Workplace optimisation and investment targeted by spatial intelligence
AZRIA provides anonymous behavioural, environmental and spatial analytics, revealing how people interact with workplaces and estates.
- Behaviour & interaction heat‑mapping
- Evidence‑based risk and waste mapping
- Activity, utilisation & collaboration analytics
- Environmental & ergonomic condition insight
- Decision support for planners, designers & operators
CEAD
Collaborative Environment Affordance-based Design
Workplace design that enables people to do their best work
CEAD is a practical, human‑centred design methodology rooted in affordance‑based thinking, which ensures that environments actively support the behaviours organisations need: collaboration, knowledge flow, problem-solving and smart ways of working.
- People & behaviour insights
- Collaborative co‑design
- Affordance mapping
- Spatial prototyping
- Evidence‑based design validation
CPIM
Collaborative Polymathic Innovation Management
Solving Complex Problems Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Systems thinking
CPIM strengthens innovation capability across organisations by merging diverse disciplines, reducing blind spots and accelerating learning.
- Interdisciplinary synthesis workshops
- Scenario planning & innovation sprints
- Systems mapping & bias reduction
- Cross‑functional collaboration enablement
Our Values
People-centred by design
We believe people are at the heart of productive, healthy and inclusive workplaces.
Evidence-driven
Our work is rooted in robust research, data evidence, behavioural insight, and measurable outcomes.
Interdisciplinary thinking
We bring together insights from property, design, psychology, operations and technology to solve complex problems.
Integrity & partnership
We act collaboratively, with honesty, clarity and respect, to deliver spaces and systems that enable people to thrive.
Innovation with purpose
We combine creativity, technology and rigorous thinking to unlock cross-sector solutions that deliver meaningful, sustainable impact.
Our Mission
Helping people and places to thrive together
Our mission is to lead with insight, creativity and systems thinking: fusing behavioural science, spatial intelligence and design integration to steward equitable, sustainable evidence-driven transformation that enables people and places to thrive together.
Peoplespace proudly supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, through our business, our values and our volunteering activities, and through the outcomes we deliver for our clients, with positive impacts for:
- Responsible Growth
- Community
- Sustainability
- Health & Wellbeing
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Promoting Social Innovation
Project examples
Empowering Smart Place Innovation
Leading cross-sector collaborative projects, with business, academic and public sector partners
Hybrid Working for Royal Borough of Greenwich
Stakeholder engagement, solution design and implementation for Future of Work pilot and roll-out programme
Smart Place AI
AI technology for monitoring and predictive modelling of people interaction, collaboration and decision-making behaviours, within dynamic place scenarios
Waverley Abbey Estate
Stakeholder interviews, vision consensus workshops and master planning for bringing to life historical and environmental significance of 120 acre estate
Healthcare Modernisation
Strategy advice for solution design and implementation programming of £73m technology and service delivery transformation
Smart Workplaces for Lenovo
US, Asia, Europe and Israel stakeholder engagement in leading vision, design and delivery of smart working and new head offices in Paris, Milan and Madrid
Smart Accommodation for Southern Water
Asset review of 73 buildings to assess rationalisation and development opportunities and modelling of optimal smart place scenarios
Smart Sustainability for Mott MacDonald
Site evaluation and smart place designs achieving Ska Gold sustainability rating for biophilic agile workspaces. Multiple business benefits including saving £2.3m pa
Smart Offices for Orange SA and HSBC
Highly adaptable modular “plug & play” workplaces for 3000 Orange staff designed and delivered within 9mths, inspiring a referral project for HSBC which received HSBC award for innovation
Greater Satisfaction for Hewlett Packard
Reduced office space from 7,800 m2 to 5,500 m2 while accommodating 100 additional staff and increasing employee satisfaction by 5.8%, with ROI within 16 months
“Best JCB Office on The Planet”
Rescued failed building construction project to deliver outstanding result within the original budget
Historic England
Reduced Guildford workplace space requirements by 50%, supporting same staff numbers, and while improving teamwork, collaboration & satisfaction
National Army Museum
Increasing practicality and capacity in 40% less space, creating new multi-purpose study library and conference centre, and improving working environment and collaboration spaces
IPSA
Agile workplace for 170 people successfully delivered within 9 weeks, including building selection, workspace design and complete fit out, meeting challenging demands and media scrutiny
Surrey Police
Workplace utilisation and work environment review, informing development of accommodations strategy and solutions for reducing costs while enhancing estate for new ways of working and collaboration with partners
Cadogan Clinic
Improved customer experience and increased capacity for 30% more clinical operations, within the the same amount of space
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