Johann Koenitz

Requirements

• Concept - File:Johann1.png
• Jim Hallock - CEB Constructino video - basket technique - 29:00 - Jim_Hallock
• Pantry kitchen - minimum standard for a hotel room. Sink + fridge. Tea- water cooker. Plates. No stove. Cohousing. Wooden fram
• Climate- [1]
• Simplest, lowest cost, natural building
• Soils - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/File:Soilmaponline2.jpg
• Site map - https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Factor_e_Farm_Site_Plan
• https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Microhouse_Genealogy
• Summer housing no heating needed.
• Think highly about a modular
• Core of 2 rooms.
• CEB walls
• Concrete foundation
• Insulation - not in summer
• Assume hydronic heating - hookup.
• Kitchenette
• Floor heating is better
• Modular - we can retrofit components into it
• Basket technique for walls - seismic stabilization
• Modules for OBI Style rapid builds
• 4x4 meters -
• Design for modularity and crowd build
• Uses 4x6x12" - 10.2 x 15.24 x 30.5
• Primarily 2x6 lumber

Discussion

• Professional organizations - ask them. Newsletter of an industrial organization.
• In Germany - call office to find students.
• Dezeen - look for writes.
• In Germany - ask professors - for recommendations of students who are freelance designers.
• Designers United - ask them - can you recommend, do you know people?
• Except for Apple. Apple is notorious for not sharing anything with anybody.
• Fab Academyv people.
• Popular Mechanics - journalists. Tend to the Journalists. Readers see it.
• To find designers - Dezeen.
• https://startupweekend.org/?fbclid=IwAR3OtucB-IbC2cEB8sYzXqi2PU6oWE2YzWi0XrfUR4GwnWpdYg-6IL1mA7M
• https://vimeo.com/32424882?fbclid=IwAR1FelW2boNgEOFWa8qY1QVRz7VpCGoPS5U4CqG9U1CiAIe7q0flqH1XKa4
• Many people attend as coaches. If you want a specific coach - you pay their travel etc.
• Team always changes, depends who you ask.
• Dresden
• Startup Weekend - 6-12 people and 1 year of prep for an enterprise.
• Startup Weekend - 54 hours for developing a product - and they do the designs. https://startupweekend.org/. Maybe 10-20% of people are going after business idea.
• Is part of startup system - Silicon Saxony - it's real. It's a bunch of chip producers and foundries. Second after Tinder in dating market. Startup Weekends are found here.
• Screw-system connected modular building system
• Dr. Braungart - cradle-to-cradle, Mc.Donough
• https://www.cradletocradle.com/
• Found out about OSE with Occupy Wall Street
• Saw TED Talk, and got into open source tech, to help people thrive
• It's not money or willingness, but knowledge, which Western society hides from the rest
• Johann is half cuban
• Mom went back to Cuba. She is an artist. She did business with construction and accounting
• Cuba invited people back home. East Germany got right wing these days - so Mom went back
• In early 2000 social security and human rights was reduced in Germany
• With Neolib and right wing politics, decided to go back to Cuba
• In Germany there is a lot of university faculty in engineering, which could do open source engineering
• In Europe, funding for Universities is public, so the competitive aspect is less pronounced then.
• Mostly European universities are competing in incentive challenges by Hyperloop.
• MakerFab - uni workshops are open to the public. Some are open like this. Especially in summer time - open to public.
• Product designers at University of Applied science in Dresden. They have most advnced equiment. Including metal 3D printing.
• Citizen makerspaces - https://www.cradletocradle.com/. And a coop.
• Product designers are most openminded. Practical approach for student projects.
• One of the most well-funded faculties of the University. Product and industrial design.
• University of Economics and Technology -
• U Applied Science - design students study the technology, not just design. They are actually craete real products.
• TU Dresden - has an industrial design division, hooked to mechanical engineering.
• Most people in Germany are independent - they hire from freelancers and agencies.
• Reasons for in-house design division is that it's expensive.
• Netherlands - Italy - GB - Denmark
• Most companies that can't afford it don't have in-house designers.
• Frog design - et al.
• Freelancers - $80-120. For big design agencies - $200-250
• For the 2D area it works well. Talent is spread through all humankind. Passionate is massively important. It's a matter of finding them.
• Matthias - founder of Konglomerat - find people around mathias
• https://www.facebook.com/konglomeratverein/ - vorstand@konglomerat.org
• Matthias initiative - https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=eAZthWqNDTT
• Apply as a local group.