Breaking Work

Melissa Hanley is the principal and co-founder of Blitz. She performs many roles in the studio but primarily design. When she is not working on projects for innovative local technology workplaces and global retail, hospitality, and product brands, she spend her days managing operations, brand, and project delivery strategy for the studio. She is a maker at heart and fell in love with creating things at a very early age. As a daughter of a contractor / fine wood-worker, building runs in her blood. Her phenomenal parents encouraged (and tolerated) her artist expressions even at the expense of the furniture and walls. The sense of exploration and freedom to test ideas has been at the core of her world view ever since and informs her process to this day. She is committed to making Blitz projects not only beautiful and a pleasure to inhabit, but functional and economic successes as well. The trust her clients put on, is an incredible privilege and She love the process of design and collaborating with individuals who value the functional, economic (not to mention aesthetic!) benefits great design. The projects where her Client is an active member of the design team are the most successful and the most rewarding. She feel privileged to be considered a champion for good design and regularly contributes to her projects and design knowledge to technical and lifestyle publications such as Interior Design Magazine, Contract, Vanity Fair, GQ, The Atlantic, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Wouter Fris is CEO at ReDock, an initiative to rethink the way we live and to develop green villages as part of large scale eco-restoration projects. Wouter is also founder and partner at D/DOCK, an Amsterdam based design and architecture studio in Amsterdam with an international portfolio and a drive for innovation as part of a passion to shape the changing world. Last (but not least) Wouter is founder and partner at Furnify, a company that gives old furniture a second life as part of a vision to design up to 100% circular. With an education as building engineer, project manager and designer Wouter has always tried turn design into a healthy business case for his clients. Concepts like healing environments, healing offices, circular schools and ReDock, turn out highly successful because of the different approach to the market, the human based qualities and the healthy business case behind it. In 1984 Wouter started as a partner at studio Heyligers in Amsterdam, handling lots of international projects mainly focused on the fusion between interior design and technology. After lounging an office at Kuala Lumpur Wouter decided to start his own company D/DOCK in 2004. D/DOCK was focused on conceptual design and innovation, which turned out to be very successful. With clients like Google, Facebook and Microsoft the company has grown to 45 designers and project managers. Wouter’s latest initiative, ReDock, is far out the most challenging and daring attempt to really show a different world, a different way of working, living and learning without parasitizing our planet but on contrary, repairing it.

Illia Temnov, chief architect and founder M3 architects. He received bachelor's degree from the Odessa Building Academy, and received master's degree in architecture from Lviv Polytechnic, Ukraine. I got architectural practice in large architectural companies in Russia, Ukraine and China. Convinced minimalist. As simple as possible, as much as possible, as interesting as possible. My worldview is a tool for liquidation of everything superfluous in favor of focusing on the most important thing in life. The key point of my philosophy is to achieve maximum signal and minimum noise. Where the signal is important information and the noise is extraneous. Now M3 architects is an international architectural company that works on objects of architecture and interior design in several countries of the world. www.m3arch.com