We’re moving!

Our team of designers and creative technologists are currently working hard to integrate leading-edge technology into the new facility, which will include a new Flux Innovation Lounge and virtual studio for hybrid events. From our new home, we will continue to create brand experiences, innovation centres, museums, exhibitions and marketing suites, and to imagine, and realise, bespoke, immersive experiences for our clients. Updates on the new installation will appear here, and we’ll have news of our opening date very soon…

Coming soon: Flux 2.0

The Flux Innovation Lounge is where you can explore the art of the possible, a unique event space that brings content, data and ideas together into a single environment, which transforms the way you think. And now Flux is getting a reboot: as part of Engage Works’ relocation to new offices in the Greenwich Design District, the new space – Flux Innovation Lounge 2.0 – is set to wow attendees all over again, with a new cache of innovative technology solutions to inspire your thinking.

A unique physical and virtual collaboration space where ideas meet technology, the Flux Innovation Lounge allows attendees to think differently, whilst working in a unique technology-rich environment, curated by our team of creative technologists.

The new Flux will be available for events and client sessions to explore the art of the possible from June 1st.

Immersive Marketing Suite for The Whiteley

Engage Works created an immersive, zoned marketing suite experience, including a 270-degree video wall, interactive 5×3-metre video wall and physical model . We partnered the technology with our bespoke FDN software, to control the digital journey throughout the space, and to allow personalised presentations, tailored to each experience. The Whiteley is a complete re-imagining of a historic address, set within a retained and restored Grade II listed façade. It comprises 139 private residential apartments and townhouses, London’s first Six Senses hotel and spa with 110 rooms, restaurants, 20 new stores, a cinema, state of the art gym and a range of fully accessible public spaces.

Intuitive Presentation Platform for Landsec

Our intuitive, feature rich platform allows the Landsec team to create immersive and engaging presentations for their growing property portfolio. Powered by the latest version of our FDN (Foundation) software, the presentations run on tablets and large format touch-enabled displays, in marketing suites or on the move. Our intuitive, easy-to-use content management system allows Landsec to create bespoke experiences, across multiple brands, with ease, whilst reducing production times from months to weeks. Plus, our collaborative product roadmap allows us to continually refine the FDN offering, tailoring it to Landsec’s growing business needs.

Why remote working doesn’t always work


Displaced workforces can work remotely and at any time using cloud technologies and improved communications infrastructures to bring greater visibility and efficiencies to the way they work. In theory, this way of working should be welcomed by both employers and workers. So, what’s wrong with this picture? Well, companies are finding that remote working is suitable for ongoing day to day work; however, when it comes to fostering the sparks of creativity that drives innovation, ignites business transformation and improves team synergies, remote workforces struggle to come up with the goods.

In the highly competitive arena of business, the levels of creativity you have in the workplace can significantly affect your company’s chances of success – so much so that fostering a culture of creativity has been identified within the top five of CEOs’ concerns in research by Hult Business school. Therefore, presence is important to creativity within the workforce and equally, so is the space they congregate in and the digital tools that amplify the experience in the space. Click here to read the rest of this fascinating article by our Strategic Project Director, David Wilson, on LinkedIn. 

How Steve Blyth Created Engage Works

Steve Blyth’s career started in mechanical engineering. But after doing an apprenticeship he realised engineering wasn’t for him. He then worked in TV as an actor, tried his hand at modelling (“it lasted a week!”) and created special effects for films. This led him to get work at London Weekend Television in mechanical special effects, blowing up cars and working on programmes such as The Kenny Everett Television Show, Spitting Image and London’s Burning. After three years, aged 23, Steve went freelance and headed to the US to find work. A meeting at Universal Studios led to an opportunity to work on a film, but he’d had enough of creating fire effects for London’s Burning, so he turned it down. Little did he know at the time that the film was Backdraft. Steve sees this as his “biggest career crossroads faux pas.”

After returning to the UK, he formed Harris-Blyth with Ray Harris, producing high-quality pop-ups for exhibitions. There wasn’t a great deal of technology involved at this stage because it was pre-plasma display so it was more about problem-solving, quality of the build and execution. Tech began to creep into their offer, however, as flat panel displays became available – although it wasn’t particularly digital at this early stage. Harris-Blyth grew into a multinational concern, working on plenty of museum, branding and marketing projects. In 2007, Steve left to form his own company – then called Engage Production. The projects began to take on a more digital hue, and he worked with companies such as Candy & Candy and Adidas. Since then, the company (now Engage Works) has grown into the multinational it is today, with offices in London and Dubai and projects for the likes of EY, Accenture, Bloomberg and PWC.

Engage CEO’s contribution to VR/AR article

Installation magazine’s feature on VR and AR posed some interesting questions. “As things stand today, integrators seem to be somewhat bemused [with the technology],” opined Installation feature writer Ian McMurray. “The technologies are potentially compelling – but what are the real-world applications from which they can derive profit? According to those operating in the VR/AR/MR market, the right thing to do is to keep an open mind.”

Our CEO Steve Blyth had this to say in response:  “There has to be a want to take this further.AV companies that are too arm’s length and traditional will be overtaken by more forward-thinking and pioneering adopters, designers and integrators. Don’t fear it – embrace it,” he laughs. “It is definitely not the modern equivalent of Betamax.” Click here to read the article in its entirety. 

CoCreate was launched at ISE 2018


Engage announced the official launch of CoCreate, its advanced collaboration software solution, at ISE 2018. Designed to take workplace collaboration to the next level, CoCreate brings content, data and ideas into a single, unique digital environment, accelerating the business process.

Engage exhibited on booth 10.N171 at the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Pavilion, where CoCreate was showcased alongside some of the company’s other innovative solutions and key projects. For more on this, see AV magazine’s news story, here.