The designer’s studio is above all a work space. The presence of creative workmakes it an intriguing and thought-provoking place that might unlock the secrets of thecreative process. But what does a designer’s studio look like today?What do these places reveal about the contemporary practice of design?Visiting different studios, the challenge is to understand how designers harness the spacein order to make it the place where their projects can develop.Harbouring creation, generating a process, sparking activity, conferring a statusor even demarcating a way of doing something: what is the role of the work space infor the designer and their practice?