Johann Koenitz

• 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/