BETTER FUTURE Archive 2020-2022

Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder & CEO at DRIVENxDESIGN and The Design Exec Club

Guests:

Alice Black - Founder at ArtULTRA

Frven Lim - Director (UK) at DP Architects / Founder at Archi-Ts / Co-Founder at SmallButBig

John Mathers - Co-founder at Design Age Accelerator

Julia Monk - Hospitality Thought Leader, Architect, Interior Designer

Philip Johnson - Knowledge Transfer Manager - Design & Innovation at KTN

William Knight - Director at The Renew Consultancy

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This week’s Better Future SPOTLIGHT episode with Fiona Triaca is not one to miss. Fiona is the Founder and CEO at Naked Ambition and together with our Founder Mark Bergin this episode probes and critiques the Australian design industry and questions how we can best shift the public’s understanding of design beyond the concept of ‘craft’. 

Fiona and Mark are passionate about using design to solve the big issues of our society, both on a local and global scale. Part of this is tackling gender inequities and focussing on fixing low economic leverages for women and other minorities to increase socio-mobility. The conversation reaches into the Next and offers an exciting, hope-itarian vision of a better future. This is the Design Exec Club at its best. 

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Hosted by Mark Bergin - Chairman and Founder at DRIVENxDESIGN & the Design Exec Club

Guests:

Mike Biggs - Innovation Director at Mike Biggs Consulting

Amber Bonney - Founder and Managing Director at The Edison Agency

David Montgomery - Director at Scaffad / SME Business Consultant at WatchWell

Lorena Gaxiola - Director at Lorena Gaxiola

Richard Henderson - Founder & CEO at R-Co Brand

Celso Borges - Experience Design Director, ASEAN at Concentrix Tigerspike

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It's a jam-packed Spotlight episode this week. Mark is joined by creative industry veteran, Jordan Waid. Jordan wears too many hats to describe in a sentence, but in this episode, he and Mark speak about his work on the Precog Report, an exciting, avant-garde report curating the latest design, innovation, futurity & culture headlines. Together they cover identifying the Signals of Significance, looking through the now to uncover what is next, navigating the attention economy, metabolising stimulations vs. regurgitating them verbatim, valuing the pulse offered by younger generations, and more (if you can believe it!).

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Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder & CEO of The Design Exec Club and DRIVENxDESIGN 

Panelists:

Aqilah Amran - Architectural Designer at align interior architecture & design

India Mitchell - Associate Architect at k20 Architecture

Lucy Swift - Craft Curator at Cluster London

Stéphane Nguyen Phan - Operations Management Trainee at Bostik Australia / Communications & Platforms Manager at AIESEC Alumni Asia Pacific

Victoria Ayo - Product Designer at Spotify

Vivian Nguyen - Freelance Illustrator

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In this episode of the Better Future SPOTLIGHT, Mark sits down with Bill Dowzer - Principal at BVN. They discuss the incredible importance of active listening, how the pandemic has led us to embrace imperfection, establishing productive feedback loops, the emerging power of audiences as co-creators of the design process, and the rich teachings we can learn from Country and Australian First Nations peoples.

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Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder & CEO of DRIVENxDESIGN & the Design Exec Club

Guests:

Julia Monk - Hospitality Thought Leader, Architect, Interior Designer

Dylan Brady - Conductor (Owner) at Decibel Architecture

Richard Henderson - Founder & CEO at R-Co Brand

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In this episode of the Better Future Spotlight, our Founder and CEO Mark Bergin talks to President of Mucca Design, Matteo Bologna.

Through typography, Matteo and Mark explore the importance of identity and finding a brand's unique voice. Matteo is a master of the art of passionate Italian storytelling and in this conversation, he distills complex ideas and questions about design into digestible and interesting narratives.

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Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder & CEO of DRIVENxDESIGN & the Design Exec Club

Guests:

Rick Bell - Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York

Dan Formosa - Consultant in design / design research / ergonomics / biomechanics

Julia Monk FAIA FIIDA - Hospitality Thought Leader, Architect, Interior Designer

Ronnie Peters - Founder and CEO at 360 DESIGN & Creative Director at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

Jon Winebrenner - President & Founder at Hurdler Studios / Creative Director at Sonn Technology

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In this episode of the Better Future SPOTLIGHT, our Founder Mark Bergin sits down with Richard Henderson of R-Co Brand for a generous conversation about their respective and collective expeditions into a better future.

Both Mark and Richard are "in the business of design, not in the design business" and they are interested in how we can all use design to "bring strategies to life". Their conversation champions imagination as the tool that catapults us out of the past and into the future. With imagination setting the foundation, they also discuss the excitement of the unknown, the power of collaboration, the transcendence of good culture, the necessity of vulnerability, and more.

Richard is ever-respectful of those on whose shoulders he stands and there is no doubt that his knowledge, and generosity in sharing it, will mean that many in turn will be standing on his shoulders as we head into a better future together.

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