About Ab Rogers Design

Ab Rogers Design (ARD) is a multidisciplinary design and architecture studio with 30 years of international experience. Throughout its work in the fields of experiential design, culture, retail, hospitality and residencies, ARD creates spaces defined by the needs of their users, believing that design can influence behaviour and elevate experience.

The studio’s creative abilities result from a broad skill base that includes architects, interior, industrial, furniture and graphic designers and writers. We champion collective intelligence and draw on expertise outside our immediate field, collaborating with scientists, medical practitioners, cultural producers, artists and craftsmen of all kinds.

ARD is privileged to have worked with clients including 180 The Strand, The Barbican Centre, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Hyundai LIVART, Maggie’s, McCarthy Stone, Scape, The Fat Duck, Comme des Garçons and Selfridges as well as London hospitals including Charing Cross, St Thomas’, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and St Mary’s. In 2021 the studio won the prestigious Wolfson Economics Prize, which that year called for design proposals for the hospital of the future.

Following this, to further our work in research and development, ARD founded the DRU+ (dru-plus.org), a design research unit that explores the interrelationship between design, culture and neuroscience, using scientific rigour to deliver the art of care by reimaging spaces and objects and nudging behaviour.

Our Approach

• Design from inside out – defining a building’s envelope by the activities it contains.
• Create Relational Spaces – environments that interact with the user, prompting positive behaviour.
• Apply sustainable, flexible, future-proof solutions – creating spaces that can adapt to changing needs without waste or destruction.
• Provoke sensorial engagement – through light, sound, smell, movement, texture, colour, materiality and haptics.
• Promote modern manufacturing technology – designing for use of standardised modular components to improve cost and maximise efficient delivery.
• Use Collective Intelligence – gathering and harnessing the thoughts, ideas and experience of a group diverse minds.
• Implement cross-sector learning  – taking research and experience garnered from a diverse range of projects to broaden and inform our response.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is to put human beings at the heart of design. Using the art of care we create user-focused spaces that solve problems and positively influence human behaviour.

We believe in the power of design to dissolve boundaries, nurture ecology, champion diversity, and bring people together.

We create inclusive environments; welcoming, transformative spaces where anyone can feel comfortable, engaged, considered and safe.

We challenge, provoke, explore and question, testing our limits to find new solutions and achieve our clients’ desired ambitions.