Ep8: Rethinking Work - 'Disrupting Retail' with John Hoyle

This weeks episode is with the renowned aerial photographer Jason Hawkes. As part of our second series of rethinking cities, we take to the skies to get a completely different perspective. Jason has been shooting iconic photos of London for the past 20 years and chances are you will have seen his work on billboards, magazines or the covers of newspapers. We have worked with Jason on numerous projects in London and his visuals have been crucial in selling projects to clients, investors and planners. He shoots from single days for architectural visualisation companies to organising multi shoot ads for large ad agencies, annual reports, and even whole image libraries for branding agencies, working all over the world and organising all helicopters, production and permits needed. His amazing clients include brands such as Apple, Virgin Atlantic, Amazon, Rolex, Microsoft, HP, Citi, Siemens, Red Bull, Nike, Coca Cola, Nokia, BT, Conde Nast, HSBC, NatWest, Ford, American Airlines, Toyota, Smirnoff, Mitsubishi, Samsung, National Geographic, O2 and BP. He has produced over 50 aerial photographic books for publishers such as the BBC, Random House, Dorling Kindersley and Harper Collins.

“We believe everyone should live in painted cities’ As part of our second series we have been looking at the way cities play a crucial part in peoples lives and in particular the importance that art can play in changing the way people feel about places. We have Lee Bofkin on this weeks podcast. Lee cofounded Global Street Art over 10 years ago and has since grown the organisation into a global media brand, with multiple different outputs. They are an agency that works with world-class graffiti and street artists to deliver high quality projects with and for our partners. They promote street art online through there media platform www.globalstreetart.com with over 600,000 organic fans on social media as well as help artists find legal walls to paint in London - since 2012 they have organised over 2,500 legal murals.

“Ask yourself this, ‘Is there really no way your company could be more efficient?" Andrews Barnes, the author of the ‘4 Day work week’ presents a radical, convincing case for a sustainable, profitable future in which we work less, but are more productive, engaged, and satisfied. Travelling all the way from Auckland, Andrew has made a name for himself globally when his company Perpetual Guardian successfully implemented the 4 Day Work Week and it got world wide press coverage. This has been one of our biggest conversation starters as everyone has a different take on how a business can be most efficient and inspiring!

“Reality speaks for itself, it’s impossible to create its complexity” On this weeks #rethinkingWork we talk to Nicolas Morency the founder and ceo of one of the most exciting 3d scanning companies pushing of the boundaries of technology that blurs real life with digital twins. Prevu3D is a Montreal-based company that reimagines the way we experience physical spaces. Their unique technology was designed with ease of use in mind, providing users with an intuitive interface to create, edit, and share interactive 3D models based on real-life environments. Nicolas joined us all the way from Montreal and blew us away with his vision for the future of digital twins, mixing gaming tech with real environments.

“Our dream is sexy: Death to trashing items!” On this weeks #rethinkingWork we talk to Tamara Brisk the founder of Mokki. A start up that wants to make the circular economy a reality, by making selling, donating and recycling your items. They work with over 400 reselling – donating – recycling partners in Paris. When you bring Mokki your surplus, their team sorts them carefully and chooses the best partner to create the most value for you… and planet earth! We hear about what Paris is like as a city, the start up story of Mokki, and what the future holds for the circular economy.

On this weeks #rethinkingWork we talk to Graham Hussey the founder of Dream Factory, a content creation studio in Shoreditch. We talk in their custom YouTube production studio all about Grahams start with the wildly successful YouTube channel ‘the start up van’ with millions of views to starting his own production house in London. With digital marketing content becoming so important for so many businesses to stand out Dream Factory is growing massively with over 160 start-ups using their studio. Making impactful content isn't easy, it takes money, production expertise and time, which isn't something many early-stage businesses have in abundance. Dream Factory can bridge that gap and help founders create ground-breaking content they've always wanted to.

On this weeks #rethinkingWork we head over to the award winning Olympic legacy project Here East. We talk to the CEO Gavin Poole about the ongoing success along with the 10 year Olympic anniversary.  Here East is an innovation and technology campus situated in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Hackney, East London. The former Olympic Media Centre was left in the wake of the 2012 Games, and in 2014 was reinvented, courtesy of a privately funded, £120m regeneration project. Today, the architectural masterstroke unites culture, enterprise, entrepreneurship and education under one roof, whether the focus is dance, digital technology or game development.

In Episode 8 of #Rethinkingwork we spoke to John Hoyle the CEO and founder of Sook in their oxford street location who are disrupting retail by selling time rather than space.

The B1M is the world’s largest, most subscribed-to (and pretty much best) video channel for construction. Over 20 million people watch their videos each month. We speak to Fred Mills the founder and host about how the B1M has changed the construction industry and created a video platform that has made the built environment accessible to millions!

Space form is a virtual communication tool which has spun out of the brilliant design agency Squint Opera which specialises in visual narratives and immersive experiences. We speak to the founder Jan Heuff about conceiving and building the product and what’s its impact on the way we work could be.