On November 2018, The Class of 2020 held in Milan its annual flagship event: The Class Conference 2018, that was entitled “From Post-Industrial City to the New Urban Campus”.
In this conference, many trending topics were tackled, about student living, future markets, and architecture.
We got the chance to interview Matteo Fantoni, founder of Matteo Fantoni Design Studio, about the future of living and working spaces.

How do you imagine the future of living of working is going to be?
"We will experience a fast growing market request for easy accessible, cultural enriching and ecological mixed use educational, co-living, co-working, wellness, environment".
How the real estate sector is going to react upon it?
"As is already happening, the real estate will carefully and quickly act as a promoter and provider of new opportunities for these actual needs. I believe on a market designed by social and environmental needs".
Who's gonna be the "right hand" of the real estate players in order to create the perfect working environment?
"Clearly an open table with developers, administrators, artist culturally driven profiles and with a key role covered by urban planners, architects and designers".
In your opinion, what's the element that cannot be missed nowadays in the workspace, to help people and companies thrive?
"Cities will be playing a key role for the future, we will spend more time in urban environment, we will need to regenerate existing structure and go vertical in order to use as less as possible ground, bring back to life left over voids and brown fields, think more and more green.
Security, wellness and green voids, flexibility and low maintenance structures, transport and connectivity, high speed internet for all will be key factors to be implemented into future Urban developments".