Create Space.

Design Performance.

Create Space.

Design Performance.

Embedded operations & communications partner for creative studios.

Embedded operations & communications partner

for creative studios.

DON'T WASTE I™ works embedded inside ambitious creative studios, beside the founder. Rebuilding how the studio decides, communicates and shares responsibility, so it grows at full speed without breaking the founder or the team.
Like a race engineer on the pit wall.
DON'T WASTE I™ works embedded inside ambitious creative studios, beside the founder. Rebuilding how the studio decides, communicates and shares responsibility, so it grows at full speed without breaking the founder or the team.
Like a race engineer on the pit wall.
DON'T WASTE I™ works embedded inside ambitious creative studios, beside the founder. Rebuilding how the studio decides, communicates and shares responsibility, so it grows at full speed without breaking the founder or the team.

Like a race engineer at the pitwall.
THE PROBLEM
Ambition is not the problem. The system is.
Ambition is not the problem.
The system is.
Ambition is not the problem. The system is.
THE COST
When pressure rises, most teams push harder.
Decision quality and headspace drop.
When pressure rises, most teams push harder. Decision quality and headspace drop.
When pressure rises, most teams push harder.
Decision quality and headspace drop.
THE ENGAGEMENT
Pressure travels through a studio along its lines of communication. I find where it breaks and leaks, then rebuild how decisions move. Who owns what.
Who needs to know. When.
Pressure travels through a studio along its lines of communication. I find where it breaks and leaks, then rebuild how decisions move. Who owns what.
Who needs to know. When.
Pressure travels through a studio along its lines of communication. I find where it breaks and leaks, then rebuild how decisions move. Who owns what.
Who needs to know. When.
THE METHOD
No standard programme. Every studio is unique, so the approach is personal and precise. Change comes from a smart selection of small improvements that compound. Small steps, large growth, fast enough to feel early.
No standard programme. Every studio is unique, so the approach is personal and precise. Change comes from a smart selection of small improvements that compound. Small steps, large growth, fast enough to feel early.
No standard programme. Every studio is unique, so the approach is personal and precise. Change comes from a smart selection of small improvements that compound. Small steps, large growth, fast enough to feel early.

Studios are shaped by their conditions, not their ambitions.
Conditions can be designed.

Most studios live in Wasteland.
The job is to move.

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EMBEDDED WITHIN HIGH-PERFORMANCE CREATIVE SPACES
THE HEADSPACE MODEL

Most studios live in Wasteland. The job is to move.

Studios are shaped by their conditions, not their ambitions. Conditions can be designed.

01 / WASTELAND
The space around the work is undesigned. Decisions cost more than they should. The right clients do not stay. The best work does not land the way it deserves to. Not failure. Uncharted space, and uncharted space is always more costly than it looks.
The space around the work is undesigned. Decisions cost more than they should. The right clients do not stay. The best work does not land the way it deserves to. Not failure. Uncharted space, and uncharted space is always more costly than it looks.
The space around the work is undesigned. Decisions cost more than they should.
The right clients do not stay. The best work does not land the way it deserves to. Not failure.

Uncharted space, and uncharted space is always more costly than it looks.
02 / HEADSPACE
A designed state of clarity. The right decisions happen at the right speed with the right people. Direction is clear enough that individual decisions stop carrying the full weight of strategy.
The work and the conditions around it are aligned. Not comfort.
A condition you build and hold.
A designed state of clarity. The right decisions happen at the right speed with the right people. Direction is clear enough that individual decisions stop carrying the full weight of strategy. The work and the conditions around it are aligned. Not comfort. A condition you build and hold.
A designed state of clarity. The right decisions happen at the right speed with the right people. Direction is clear enough that individual decisions stop carrying the full weight of strategy.

The work and the conditions around it are aligned. Not comfort. A condition you build and hold.
03 / OPEN SPACE
Not a better week. A built state. Performance is structural, not occasional. The studio operates at the level its ambition deserves, and it stays there because the conditions hold it there. What is possible is no longer a question.
It is a coordinate. Performance, by design
Not a better week. A built state. Performance is structural, not occasional. The studio operates at the level its ambition deserves, and it stays there because the conditions hold it there. What is possible is no longer a question. It is a coordinate. Performance, by design
Not a better week. A built state. Performance is structural, not occasional. The studio operates at the level its ambition deserves, and it stays there because the conditions hold it there.

What is possible is no longer a question.
It is a coordinate. Performance, by design
FOCUS AREAS
IN THEIR WORDS
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INDEX

NUMBERS

15.000+ plays
86 countries
882 cities
2 seasons

SEASON 1

Akaar Amin

Abdelkader Benali

Aric Chen

Charlotte Thomas

Dennis Vanderbroeck

Inger Kameraat

Javier Arpa Fernández

Joost Grootens
Julian Mollema

Kim Heinen
Loes & Simone

Margreeth Olsthoorn

Nathalie de Vries

Paul Cournet

Piet Oudolf

Said Kinos
Sarah Schulten

Simone van Neerven

Telmo Pieper

Thomas Verdel

Founder Lack of Guidance

Author, Journalist, Program Maker

Director Nieuwe Instituut

Editor at De Architect
Spatial Designer

Strategic Organisation Consultant

Head ‘Building Audiences’ TU Delft

Graphic Designer
Founder Analogue Agency
Media Relations & Public Affairs

Founders Team Thursday

Margreeth Olsthoorn Fashion Store
Founding Partner MVRDV

Founder CLOUD & Chief Editor Capsule

Garden Designer

Contemporary Artist
Creative Strategy Consultant

Founder re.Bella

Imagemaker & (Mural) Painter

Director Moestuin Vollenhoven

SEASON 2

Anne Kremers

Livia & Dan
Basile Fournier

Ben Wright

Chiara Tomassi

Daria Zvereva

Joachim Baan

Markus Toll
Mirko Borsche

Mohamed Chajid
Rene van Dijk

Simon Brown
Stian Sommerseth

Thomas Subreville

Tim Hooijmans

Tom Dorresteijn

Willem de Kam

Yuro Moniz

Director Fenix Museum

Atlas of Shows
Founder Basile Fournier Studio

Director Pretty Soon

Architect at 2050+

Architect at OMA/AMO

Creative Director / Consultant
Founder Supersedia

Founder Bureau Borsche

Creative Director
Founder Rene.Studio

Creative Director
Ultrarunner & SATISFY pro athlete

Director ILL-Studio

Lighting Designer

Partner Studio Dumbar

Photographer

Ceramic Artisan

SEASON 1

Akaar Amin

Abdelkader Benali

Aric Chen

Charlotte Thomas

Dennis Vanderbroeck

Inger Kameraat

Javier Arpa Fernández

Joost Grootens
Julian Mollema

Kim Heinen
Loes & Simone

Margreeth Olsthoorn

Nathalie de Vries

Paul Cournet

Piet Oudolf

Said Kinos
Sarah Schulten

Simone van Neerven

Telmo Pieper

Thomas Verdel

Founder Lack of Guidance

Author, Journalist, Program Maker

Director Nieuwe Instituut

Editor at De Architect
Spatial Designer

Strategic Organisation Consultant

Head ‘Building Audiences’ TU Delft

Graphic Designer
Founder Analogue Agency
Media Relations & Public Affairs

Founders Team Thursday

Margreeth Olsthoorn Fashion Store
Founding Partner MVRDV

Founder CLOUD & Chief Editor Capsule

Garden Designer

Contemporary Artist
Creative Strategy Consultant

Founder re.Bella

Imagemaker & (Mural) Painter

Director Moestuin Vollenhoven

SEASON 2

Anne Kremers

Livia & Dan
Basile Fournier

Ben Wright

Chiara Tomassi

Daria Zvereva

Joachim Baan

Markus Toll
Mirko Borsche

Mohamed Chajid
Rene van Dijk

Simon Brown
Stian Sommerseth

Thomas Subreville

Tim Hooijmans

Tom Dorresteijn

Willem de Kam

Yuro Moniz

Director Fenix Museum

Atlas of Shows
Founder Basile Fournier Studio

Director Pretty Soon

Architect at 2050+

Architect at OMA/AMO

Creative Director / Consultant
Founder Supersedia

Founder Bureau Borsche

Creative Director
Founder Rene.Studio

Creative Director
Ultrarunner & SATISFY pro athlete

Director ILL-Studio

Lighting Designer

Partner Studio Dumbar

Photographer

Ceramic Artisan

PODCAST: CAPSULE TALKS