BETTER FUTURE Archive 2020-2022

For this episode, Mark is joined by Isabel Aagaard - Co-founder of LastObject - as they discuss a Better Future and a sustainable Now. Against the backdrop of Isabel’s work at LastObject finding design solutions for single-use products, Isabel and Mark discuss the intricacies of start-ups - from Kickstarter and beyond, the influence of growing up around entrepreneurs, committing to creating your dream team, the power of understanding production and the importance of dreaming big. Isabel and LastObject support a circular economic model. Through their work and ideas, they showcase an infectious passion for an improved world - it is hard not to share in the excitement. 

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Hosted by Mark Bergin

Panelists
Dylan Brady - Conductor (owner) at Decibel Architecture
Celso Borges - Head of Experience Design at Tigerspike
Richard Henderson - Founder & CEO at R-Co Brand
David Montgomery - Founder and Director at Scaffad
Hassan el Reyes - State Sales manager at Schiavello Systems

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This week Mark sits down with Lisa Roet - visual artist & designer - for a fascinating discussion about art, science, primates, climate change and mammoth tusks. Lisa shares with us her wealth of passion, knowledge and vision for a Better Future, gathered from her 30+ year career working across the globe studying the complex relationship between humans and their simian relatives. With Mark, Lisa takes us through some of her most recent works, including ‘David Greybeard’, ‘Golden Monkey’, and her mammoth tusk jewellery.

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Hosted by 
Mark Bergin

Panelists
Adrian Battisby - Partner, Practice Leader LW Hong Kong & Senior Director of Interior Design LW Interiors

Andrew Mead - Chief Architect (ARBUK) at MTR

Dylan Brady - Conductor (owner) at Decibel Architecture

Girish Jhunjhnuwala - Founder & CEO at Ovolo Hotels

Julia Monk - Hospitality Thought Leader, Architect, Interior Designer

Ole Woller Rauberg - Head of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and S.Korea at RH

Richard Henderson - Founder & CEO at R-Co Brand

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This week the Better Future Spotlight is shining on Kirsten Mann - Chief Product Officer at Prospection. Mark catches up with Kirsten to discuss the breakthrough work that Prospection are doing to champion data-driven, evidence-based medical decision making. Kirsten explains the exciting power that data has to change the world by creating new truths and catalysing medical products into the market that will help change lives. They also discuss the positive influence of a thoughtful and diverse workforce composition, from the boardroom down, and how creating space for joy and enthusiasm in the workplace helps breed success and satisfaction for staff and clients alike.

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Hosted by Mark Bergin

Panelists

Christina Hart - Principal & Creative Director at Studio H

Dan Formosa - Designer at Dan Formosa! and Co-founder at 4B

Eddie Opara - Partner at Pentagram

Jon Winebrenner - Creative Director at Sonn Technology

Lynnette Galloway - Visual Designer at Apple

Julia Monk - Hospitality Thought Leader, Architect, Interior Designer

Rick Bell - Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University, NYC

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

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Hosted by Mark Bergin

Panelists
Kirsty Dias - Managing Director at PriestmanGoode.
Philip Johnson - Programme Director at Locate East Sussex
Simon Hamilton - Founder at Design Career Consulting & Educator at Elle Education
William Knight - Director at The Renew Consultancy & European Associate at DRIVENxDESIGN
Claire Menzies - Group Chairwoman & Founder at Istoria Group & Founder at Ignition DG
John Williams - Founding Director at Space Invader

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In this episode, Mark is joined by Melissa Cullens - Founder & CEO at Charette. Melissa and Mark discuss her latest venture Charette, reframing from 'Me' to 'We', the importance of creating value, and pushing for spaces to share idealism and passion within rigid industries.

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Hosted by Mark Bergin

Panelists:
Richard Henderson - Founder & CEO at R-Co Brand
Betsy Sweat - Head of Asia Pacific, RH
David Montgomery - Founder & Director at Scaffad

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This week Mark is joined by David Keech - Managing Director at Keechdesign UK - as they deconstruct what this current moment, and the future, looks like for design and the world at large.

David and Mark discuss the importance of meaningful distillation in the information age and the understanding that elegance isn’t always simple, they celebrate the moment that has arrived for multidisciplinary design, and they question how well we are pace-matching design and ideas with the crazy world we are living in.

Towards the end of the conversation, David shares his hopeful sentiment for creatives in 2021... ”it feels like a particularly exciting time for anyone who provides ideas for a living“.