Johann Koenitz
From Open Source Ecology
Requirements
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.
