All of the many words: There haven’t been enough of them! Words can be motivating, inspiring, and teach us new things, helping us to harness the power to act. But the ökoRAUSCH Festival contributors’ activities, projects and stances are also very impressive. They are meeting the challenges of our time with expertise, moxie and, most of all, an incredible amount of creativity!
Contributors
See who contributes when to our programme. Find out details about it here oekorausch.de/programm2020.
We look forward to seeing you there!
▸ Friday 28.8.2020 Vernissage
▸ Saturday 5.9.2020 Design for the future – Saving resources with design
▸ Sunday 6.9.2020 City design – Creatively using (city) spaces – Part 1
▸ Thursday 10.9.2020 City design – Creatively using (city) spaces – Part 2
▸ Saturday 12.09.2020 Coding for climate – Digitalisation and sustainability
▸ Sunday 13.9.2020 Democracy theatre – Exhausted democracy
▸ Thursday 17.9.2020 Less is more – Working sustainably
▸ Friday 18.9.2020 Make a statement – For a healthy environment (in Cologne)
▸ Saturday 19.9.2020 Coding for climate – Do it yourself
▸ Sunday 20.9.2020 Artivismus & Empowerment – Art is power
▸ Thursday 24.9.2020 Ecodesign Conference & Finissage
Co-Organiser of the ökoRAUSCH Festival
The extensive programme as well as the theme-based exhibition of the interface between environmental and development issues and design have been conceptualised together with Stadt Land Welt e.V.
Friday 28.8.2020 – VERNISSAGE
ökoRAUSCH Exhebition for design & sustainability
Moderation: tbd
Janine Steeger
journalist, presenter, speaker / janine-steeger.de/ Janine Steeger is a trained journalist and moderator, and after nearly 20 years in the television industry, she has fully dedicated herself to the topics of environmental protection and sustainability. She moderates events that focus on these issues, as a speaker she gives others inspiration for a “futurelifestyle,” and she published her first book with oekom publishers in 2020, “Going Green – warum man nicht perfekt sein muss, um das Klima zu schützen” – or: “Going Green: why you don’t have to be perfect to protect the environment”. Image: Nadine DillySaturday 5.9.2020 – Design for the future
Saving resources with design
To kick off our programme we will be going back to the basics: Which material do we use in design in order to truly save resources? Will we soon be growing products themselves? And what are we building upon for our tomorrow? Our experts will put you in a RAUSCH with the world of possibilities.
Moderation: Kim Huber, ökoRAUSCH
Anika Paape
3D Printing & Repairs / 3d-reparieren.de/ Anika studied industrial design at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, Germany. Her focus on sustainability brought about an orientation toward conceptual projects. Her current focus is on “3D printing & repairs”: How can people gain more self-empowerment in the private domain or in Repair Cafés and simply 3D print the replacement parts themselves? As a self-proclaimed tinkerer she is also interested in open workshops, she is part of the maker culture and co-founder of the Repair Café at “BüzE” civic centre in Cologne. Image: Eren Bozbas
Die Rote Linie / mindjazz Pictures
mindjazz Pictures / mindjazz-pictures.de/filme/die-rote-linie-widerstand-im-hambacher-forst/ DIE ROTE LINIE (THE RED LINE) shows the protest against the destruction of Hambach Forest and the resistance against lignite mining from the perspective of different groups that began fighting alone, then joined forces against the German energy giant RWE. This is a local David and Goliath story that is inextricably connected to the global issues of climate change, energy policy and civil protest movements. The Hambach Forest is now a symbol of resistance against the status quo of energy policy.
Jan Berbee
Grown.bio / grown.bio Grown.bio grows product instead of manufacturing them. We use a mixture of mycelium (the roots of mushrooms) and organic rest streams that grows together in a mold. After five days, the product is baked in an oven. The result is a beautiful, healthy, natural material. It is a bit like styrofoam, but it’s sustainable! We make packaging products, interior design products and building materials. Jan Berbee, packaging expert and entrepreneur, started Grown.bio in 2016. The company now has a factory in the Netherlands and is looking to expand in Germany and France.
Jan Christian Schulz
moorwerk / moorwerk.com/ Jan Christian Schulz graduated with a degree in product and industrial design from the Hochschule Hannover and the FHNW in Basel. He then became the project manager for the furniture manufacturer Thonet before heading to the USA to give workshops as ambassador for the German Design Museum Foundation. Schulz is currently getting his MA in Social Design at the Design Academy of Eindhoven. His projects are permeated by a cultural-societal character that is evolving in the form of experimental research, concept development and object design.
Jonathan Lunkenheimer
Architects for Future / architects4future.de Jonathan Lunkenheimer is the founder of Architects for Future, an initiative that shows solidarity with the young climate activists and advocates for responsible work practice in the construction industry. After finishing his degree in psychology, Lunkenheimer switched gears and began studying architecture because he was passionate about actively helping shape a more sustainable future. During his MA at the Bergische University in Wuppertal he was deeply focused on recycling-friendly construction, innovative materials and criteria for sustainable construction.
Karin de Miguel Wessendorf
documentary filmmaker and journalist / mindjazz-pictures.de/filme/die-rote-linie-widerstand-im-hambacher-forst Born in Barcelona in 1974, the filmmaker and journalist works for WDR, ZDF, SWR, NDR and ARTE, among others. For her film „Weniger ist mehr – Die Grenzen des Wachstums und das bessere Leben" ("Less is more - The Limits of Growth and the Better Life") she was awarded the Alternative Media Prize and the Ekotopfilm Prize (Slovakia). For "Die rote Linie" („The red Line“) she was nominated "Journalist of the Year" at Prix Europa. The film was screened at numerous international festivals such as DOKFest Munich, Naturvision, Green Screen, One World Prague, DOCFeed Eindhoven, Green Image Japan, Ekofilm Brno and many more.
Kim Huber
ökoRAUSCH Kim is a conceptual communication designer who finished her degree in “Sustainable Design” at the ecosign Academy of Design in Cologne in 2018. Besides preparing her with design tools and diversified knowledge about society and sustainability, through her studies she become convinced that design is not only surface improvement, but it may even have the power (and mission!) to save the world. From 2016 to 2019, she worked on different projects at the department of sustainable production and consumerism at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, translating scientific information into visual communication.
Susanne Volz
ecocircle concept / ecocircle-concept.de/ As a passionate pioneer, Susanne Volz has been driving the implementation of the circular economy. She is working on the transformation of our economic system in European research and pilot projects for the EU and Climate KIC (Knowledge and Innovation Communities). She works as a consultant to transfer knowledge gained into practical methods and helps companies develop circular strategies. Volz focuses on the innovation of products, supply chains and business models for the circular economy as well as system transformation.Sunday 6.9.2020 – City design – Part 1
Creatively using (city) spaces
The majority of the world’s population lives in cities and urban agglomerations. Should this really be answered with a construction boom and real estate as a financial investment? How can we instead – together as a community – re-design cities to become communal, inclusive places with a better quality of life for all of its citizens!
Moderation: Rainer Kiel
Alexander Kleinschrodt
Architects4Future / architects4future.de/ Alexander Kleinschrodt is a cultural scientist and architectural historian. He teaches at the ecosign/Academy of Design in Cologne and the University of Bonn. He is a freelance cultural mediator for the public and private sector. He is actively involved in local chapters of Architects4Future in Cologne/Bonn. One of his focuses is linking culture and architecture with issues of socio-ecological transformation. Through the “Werkstatt Baukultur Bonn” he has contributed to the debate on building stock conservation and reconstruction culture with events and publications. Image: Nola Bunke
Dominik Siebel
MKM Mode Kollektiv Mengenich / mode-kollektiv.com Dominik Siebel is the manager of MKM Mode Kollektiv Mengenich gUG, and he develops strategies for collaborative world-shaping. Among others, he works with the group of artists "Mühlenkampf - Hochschule für Weltgestaltung" (meaning something to the effect of “A fight against the mill – University of world-shaping”), the “Schule für politische Hoffnung” (or the “School of political hope”) and the “Labor für soziale und ästhetische Bewegung” (or the “Laboratory for social and aesthetic movement”) (with Silke Z.). His current project, the fashion collective MKM, positions itself between art, social work and social entrepreneurship.
Hannes Lindemann
HausHalten e.V. / haushalten.org Hannes Lindemann is a long-standing board member of the association HausHalten. He dedicates most of his time in this capacity to public relations and requests from the field of scientific research and education. As a geographer, Lindemann has dedicated himself to the city development of Leipzig for over 10 years and has seen the city transform from one of Germany’s vacant building capitals to an absolute boomtown. He is currently working for the city of Leipzig in the area of bicycle traffic. Lindemann works alongside fellow board member and architect Corinna Scholz.
Lydia Oermann
MKM Mode Kollektiv Mengenich gUG / mode-kollektiv.com/ Lydia Oermann is a freelance artist with a focus on silkscreening. She lives in Cologne and works in cultural education with children, youths and adults. She has used silkscreening as an artistic medium since 1995, and increasingly on smooth surfaces of glass and acrylic glass. Lydia: “The transparency and the resulting possibility of working with layers and expanding surfaces within a space fascinates me.”
Rainer Kiel
moderator / rainer-kiel.de Rainer Kiel is an artist, bicyclist and urban activist who lives and works in Cologne. Time and again, his work has reflected contemporary environmental issues. “Green city development” is his area of expertise and he is involved in different initiatives that are also not art-related. Both participation in political processes as well as direct interventions in public spaces are ways that he goes about fostering change. Rainer will lead as moderator through the programme on 06.09.2020.
Verena Aurbek
city+trade / starke-veedel-meschenich.de Verena Aurbek is the district manageress in Cologne’s Meschenich where she oversees measures of empowerment and participation for the residents and manages the contingency funds for Meschenich for the funding programme “Starke Veedel – Starkes Köln” (or “Strong Neighbourhood – Strong Cologne”). She recently worked as a social space coordinator and implemented the city’s programme “Lebenswerte Veedel” (or “Livable Neighbourhoods”) in the two Cologne neighbourhoods of Meschenich and Rondorf. In this capacity she proactively coordinated the communication between the different actors, headed committees and working groups, and implemented various participation formats.Thursday 10.9.2020 – City design – Part 2
Creatively using (city) spaces
The city’s buildings are the canvass of street artists. What impact can political art in public spaces have? Look, listen, ask and join the discussion.
Moderation: Captain Borderline
Captain Borderline
captainborderline.org For over 20 years, the Cologne based trio Captain Borderline has been livening up public spaces with its street art. While at the turn of the century it was mostly stickers and posters with muddled images and messages that passersby unexpectedly encountered on their way to work, their illegally mounted works became increasingly political starting in 2005. In 2008, their work was almost completely dedicated to murals with socio-critical themes.Saturday 12.09.2020 – Coding for climate – Part 1
Digitalisation and sustainability
The Internet and digitalisation are a part of our everyday lives and communication, making them easier; they stand for efficiency and dematerialisation. But what is the carbon footprint of the virtual space? Shouldn’t we measure our digital activity by more than just bits, bytes, shares and likes and also consider rare earths, emissions and ethics? While the Internet will be subject to critique here, we will also brainstorm how clever codes can be the beginning of a more environmentally friendly Internet!
Moderation: Kathrin Prassel
Carmen Johann
Cologne Game Lab / www.carmenjohann.de Carmen Johann is a researcher, developer and designer of interactive media. She has an MA in Game Development and Research (CGL). She is currently working on the research project SOLVE at the Cologne Game Lab at the Cologne University of Applied Science and writing her PhD thesis. She is co-founder and manageress of the company Pixelbeschleuniger. Together with Fee Bonny, and with the support of the Film and Media Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, she is developing a game called “Charlie & Morty - Die Mutlichtprüfung” that aims to help children cope with death and grief.
Christian Neumann
utopicode / utopicode.de/ Christian works as a freelance computer scientist for the web; he is also involved in social movements. His work focuses on the interplay of digitalisation and sustainability: How can all things Internet contribute to a more sustainable society; and how can digitalisation be implemented more sustainably? Christian likes to support projects that make the world a little better. He has most recently put a greater focus on the ecological consequences of information and communication technologies.
Jil Blume
moderator / jilblume.de/ This Cologne-based ball of energy has been moderating on stages since she was 16 – preferably discussions between civil society and politicians from the local to the EU level. She is passionate about issues regarding children and youth, sustainability and social justice. Anyone listening to a discussion with her will not only be entertained, they will also be made to understand expert knowledge along the way. Jil is currently putting on workshops for organisations to help them carry out entertaining and interactive online workshops and discussions.
Jonas Zimmer
Cologne Game Lab / colognegamelab.de/jonas-zimmer As a computer programmer with a background in cultural studies, Jonas Zimmer works as a research assistant at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences where he is using new technology to expand cultural contexts. He took over the technical management of the research department of the Cologne Game Lab in 2017, where he is also doing research for his dissertation in digital humanities. As the leader of the project Holodecks he is also responsible for the implementation of a virtual reality simulation of the future commissioned for the newly built Deutsches Museum (or German Museum) in Nuremburg.
Paul Suski
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy / wupperinst.org Paul Suski is a research associate at the Wuppertal Institute; he works on the life cycle assessment ratings of packaging concepts and digital services, among other things. For his PhD thesis he is trying to determine the environmental potential of a sharing society. The focus here lies primarily on the complex interaction of different everyday practices in order to compare entire patterns of consumerism instead of just evaluating and comparing individual products.
Raphael Schauff
jfc Medienzentrum / fablab.jfc.info/ Raphael Schauff is head of the project “Fablab mobil” for the jfc Medienzentrum. The project, which was inspired by the maker movement, offers workshops on upcycling, programming and robotics for children, teens and adults. Raphael Schauff studied social pedagogy with a focus on social and cultural sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf. He is also a trained audio-visual media designer. Bringing making, virtual reality and gaming to the masses and sharing his enthusiasm for new technologies are his passions.Sunday 13.9.2020 – Democracy theatre
Exhausted democracy
Performative input on positive utopias for democracy and politics, on new societal models and visionary alternative life designs.
WEHR 51 - performing Arts
wehr51.com WEHR51’s main focus is on the implementation of its own scripts that reflect current socio-political issues. The new dramaturgic approaches lead to exceptional performance spaces and combine various artistic forms, such as acting, dance, music and video. The result is a diverse programme of “hybrid” enactments and immersive types of performances that ultimately involve the audience as participants. The focus lies not on instructing or teaching, but about heightening the senses, questioning things and thinking in new ways.Thursday 17.9.2020 – Less is more
Working sustainably
Concepts for new ways of working did not fist arise during the corona crisis. We Germans are the world champions of productivity, but out of love for the environment and nature, we shouldn’t overdo it. People’s psyche and individual life satisfaction often suffer from it. So how can we work more sustainably?
Moderation: Kim Huber, ökoRAUSCH
Ioannis Theocharis
4-Tage-Woche / 4tagewoche.de/ As a community organiser, Ioannis Theocharis has a special focus on how groups handle complexity. He is also involved with campaigns for a four-day work week and the “Green New Deal for Europe”. Theocharis will also be campaigning with the voters group “KLIMA FREUNDE” (or “CLIMATE FRIENDS”) for a more environmentally friendly city in the upcoming local government elections in Cologne. Ioannis Theocharis studied biomedical engineering at the University of West Attica and is currently in a training programme for project management of clinical research.
Kim Huber
ökoRAUSCH Kim is a conceptual communication designer who finished her degree in “Sustainable Design” at the ecosign Academy of Design in Cologne in 2018. Besides preparing her with design tools and diversified knowledge about society and sustainability, through her studies she become convinced that design is not only surface improvement, but it may even have the power (and mission!) to save the world. From 2016 to 2019, she worked on different projects at the department of sustainable production and consumerism at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, translating scientific information into visual communication.
Martin Herrndorf
Colabor / herrndorf.de/ I work as a freelance consultant and project developer in the areas of sustainability, social enterprises and city development. At “Colabor | Raum für Nachhaltigkeit” (or “Space for Sustainability”) we offer workspace and a platform for sustainability pioneers that drive socio-ecological innovation in and around Cologne. As a freelancer I advise organisations and founders with their plans, from the idea to implementation. For example, I helped realise the “Tag des guten Lebens”, or “Day of the Good Life”, from 2012 to 2019. Image: Simon Veith
Philipp Frey
ZET / emancipatory.technology/ Philipp Frey is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the chairman of the think tank “Zentrum Emanzipatorische Technikforschung” (ZET), or Center for Emancipatory Technology Research. His research focuses on the future of the work society and utopias of automatisation. Frey is especially interested in the question of how technological and social progress can be reconciled with ecological sustainability.Friday 18.9.2020 – Make a statement
For a healthy environment (in Cologne)
Today we are making a statement: With pen and paper in hand, we are going to explore the basics of graphic recordings; but with moxie, vision and direct democracy we will also be setting the tone for a transformation toward a climate-neutral Cologne.
Moderation: tbd
Achim Wölfel
Mehr Demokratie NRW / mehr-demokratie.de Achim Wölfel started working at Mehr Demokratie (or: More Democracy) as student intern in 2018. Collecting signatures in Bremen for better electoral rights was astonishingly fun for him - as was the rest, of course! Since early 2019 Achim has been in charge of public relations for the state association of North Rhine-Westphalia. He became head of the Cologne national office in mid-2020.
Birgit Jansen
bikablo / bikablo.com Birgit Jansen is a visual storyteller and graphic recorder at biklabo. The Cologne based communications designer and illustrator knows how to expertly transfers complex issues onto paper; she can also cloak large amounts of data in a friendly guise so that the eye, heart and mind all feel equally spoken to.
Karina Antons
bikablo / bikablo.com Karina Antons is the manageress, visual facilitator and trainer at bikablo. She has a background in the development of learning processes and consultation of teachers as a visual consultant, university didactics expert for the Netzwerk NRW, and former senior teacher. bikablo is a Cologne based company with a very strong orientation toward sustainability and sense of community. It is also a pioneer, lab and training centre for graphic thinking, learning and cooperation.
Kathrin Jurgenowski
Klimawende Köln / klimawende.koeln/ Kathrin Jurgenowski is involved in the Klimawende Köln in the area of public relations. The citizens’ initiative, which was founded in 2019, advocates for climate protection in Cologne. The initiative’s specific goal is to make Cologne climate-neutral by 2030. To that end, Klimawende Köln organizes educational events and citizens’ initiatives. Image: Asja CaspariSaturday 19.9.2020 – Coding for climate – Part 2
Do it yourself
A crash course for all (women) who want to learn how to work magic with source codes. Registration opens at the end of July!
Christine Gotthardt
Railslove / railslove.com Christine and Tatjana both work at the interactive agency Railslove, where Tatjana has worked in project management since 2010 and Christine has worked on the development team since March 2020. Christine also organises the Django Girls Cologne (programming workshop for women) and the f.u.c.k. cologne (“Computer Kram Meetup”, or “computer stuff meet up”). Tatjana initiated the first Rails Girls programming workshop in Cologne in 2012.
Tatjana Lajendäcker
Railslove / railslove.com Christine and Tatjana both work at the interactive agency Railslove, where Tatjana has worked in project management since 2010 and Christine has worked on the development team since March 2020. Christine also organises the Django Girls Cologne (programming workshop for women) and the f.u.c.k. cologne (“Computer Kram Meetup”, or “computer stuff meet up”). Tatjana initiated the first Rails Girls programming workshop in Cologne in 2012.Sunday 20.9.2020 – Artivismus & Empowerment
Art is power
Artivism combines art and activism in the public sphere. Art wants to be liked – but it doesn’t have to be – and it refuses to be held back. That’s how it creates free spaces that allow for the development of fresh ideas and new perspectives. Art shakes things up; it is confrontational; and it empowers people to autonomously and confidently make their (critical) voices heard and, most of all, seen. When combined with a social creative will there arises: Artivism.
Moderation: Katharina Klapdor, And She Was Like: BÄM!
David Avido Ochieng
lookslike avido / lookslikeavido.com Avido is a tailor and designer from Kibera in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. His fashion label lookslike avido shows the creative potential his neighbourhood possesses, and he sees this potential in all of us: “If you believe in yourself and continue on your path, there are no limits, no matter where you come from. I want to encourage people and create beauty where it is least expected.” His workshop in Kibera is providing perspectives; the first visit to the Berlin Fashion Week was in 2019, sales are managed in Cologne. From Kibera to the World. Image: Romy Maxime
Hoernemann & Walbrodt
CommunityArtWorks / communityartworks.de HOERNEMANN&WALBRODT are working on an “extended version” of art. Having a background in fine arts and dance, they have developed, for example, participative formats for administration departments, realised artistic interventions in companies and explored new possibilities of co-creation in public spaces. Through their work, they move from center outward toward the spaces harboring connections of societal development, both those familiar with art and those that aren’t.
Katharina Cibulka
katharina-cibulka.com/ Katharina Cibulka is an artist and filmmaker. Her work consistent follows a political agenda and focuses on aspects such as feminism, social justice and communality, as well as questions pertaining to aesthetic processes and the role of art itself. Over the last three years she has worked on the feminist-activist project SOLANGE in which her large-scale installations in public spaces question current power structures in society. Image: Ferdinand Cibulka
Katharina Klapdor
AndSheWasLike: BÄM! Katharina Klapdor is a Cologne-based cultural anthropologist working in art and cultural production. She is an active member of the association AndSheWasLike: BÄM! and a moderator for her series “women in arts and culture” at Kumbig e.V, among other organisations. Her focus is on the work for and on the design of project that campaigns for the recognition of the diversity of society. Having gained a lot of experience with exhibitions, in 2020 she is working as the project manageress for the CircusDanceFestival as well as for ArtAsyl e.V. Image: Mehdi Ben Salem
Lisa Schmerl
Lisa Schmerl is a social worker and speaker on issues in the fields of democracy education, antiracism, migration pedagogical opening and feminism. She is the co-founder of f*akt- Feministische* Aktion Mönchengladbach and the hashtag #notheidisgirl. Participative educational work is especially important to her. She really enjoys combining political content with creative techniques.
Martin Kaltwasser
martinkaltwasser.de Martin Kaltwasser is a sculptor, architect, performer and urban researcher. His work in public spaces deals with its destruction, piping and commercialisation. His spacial, fragile and object-related temporary interventions interfere in this context; these interventions are often participative and lead to social interaction. Since 2019, Martin Kaltwasser has been a professor for plastic at the Institute for Art and Material Culture in the department for art and sciences of art at the TU Dortmund. Image: Frank Sperling
Sevgi Demirkaya
Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim / kulturbunker-muelheim.de/startseite/ Sevgi is the programme manageress of the only cultural centre in Cologne’s largest neighborhood. After studying economy and multimedia she worked as a freelance PR consultant. She developed intercultural campaigns with a German-Turkish focus. Her ideas can also be found on postcards and T-shirts. She began as a member of the board of the Kulturbunker and has managed the programme now for many years. She strives to go in a transcultural direction that is orientated toward the diverse influences and cultural mixes found in that part of the city.Thursday 24.9.2020 – Ecodesign Conference & Finissage
The Ecodesign Conference is the grand finale of the ökoRAUSCH exhibition. With representatives of the design industry, scientific institutes and North Rhine-Westphalian universities and colleges, the topic of “Ecodesign” will be examined and examined more closely in exciting lectures and workshops.
Moderation: Thomas Häusler, WDR
Annika Greven
Wuppertal Institute / wupperinst.org/ Annika Greven works as research associate at the Wuppertal Institute in the research group on innovation labs for the department of sustainable production and consumerism. She studied industrial design engineering and strategic innovation. Apart from also being a freelance designer, she is working on a start-up for sustainable fashion. Her research focuses on the sustainability and user-oriented development of innovation, products and business models, living labs for sustainability as well as transition design. Image: Katharina Wergen
Artjom Hahn
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Bernd Draser
ecosign / ecosign.de/ Bernd Draser is a philosopher and cultural scholar. He has taught at the ecosign / Academy of Design in Cologne since 2004 and focuses on sustainability and design. He is particularly interested in the interaction between nature and culture, digitalisation and sustainability as well as the changing role of design in the contexts of sustainability. Besides supervising numerous theses, he is also responsible for scientific collaboration and the academic development and accreditation of degree programmes at ecosign. Image: Bozica Babic
Cesar Santos
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Christoph Tochtrop
Wuppertal Institute / wupperinst.org/ Christoph Tochtrop is a carpenter and studied industrial design and transdisciplinary design at the Folkwang University of the Arts. His goal with design is developing products that contribute to sustainability with its construction and interaction. He has worked in the research field of Design for Sustainability and Ciruclarity at the Folkwang University since August 2019 and as guest researcher at the Wuppertal Institute. Image: Dominik Krolikowski
Dominik Limbach
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Evelyn Lafond
Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM) / ecodesign.vlaanderen-circulair.be/en Evelyn Lafond is policy advisor for ecodesign and circular textiles at the Public Waste Agency of Flanders (OVAM). She organises Ecodesign Awards for professionals and students, supports companies and designers with tools like the Ecolizer and the SIS Toolkit and facilitates the European Network of Ecodesign Centers (ENEC). She has a strong drive to help the fashion sector become more circular and is cofounder of the platform Close The Loop.
Jessika Kunsleben
Effizienz-Agentur NRW / ressourceneffizienz.de Jessika Kunsleben is the project coordinator of the Effizienz-Agentur NRW (EFA) in Duisburg.The main focus of her work is financial consultation. She advises and supports companies that want to implement resource-efficient measures with grant applications and in their correspondence with banks and funding bodies. Jessika Kunsleben is also the project head for the EFA consulting service ecodesign and is in charge of the renowned Effizienz-Preis NRW for resource-efficient products, which is awarded every two years.
Julia Toups
Effizienz-Agentur NRW/Prosperkolleg / prosperkolleg.de/ Julia Toups is part of the resource efficiency consultancy team at the Effizienz-Agentur NRW and represents the EFA in the research project Prosperkolleg, which is financed by the MWIDE.NRW. Here she initiates specific implementation processes of circular value with companies in the Emscher-Lippe region, specifically, and in the entire state of NRW. Her main tasks at the Effizienz-Agentur NRW are in the areas of circular economy and ecodesign.
Julien Boucher
EA - Shaping Environmental Action Julien previously worked as a consultant, researcher and manager. He co-founded one of the leading global consultancy in Life Cycle Assessment (Quantis) and several associations for the promotion of sustainability. He is engineer in environmental science and got his PhD in chemistry from EPFL.
Julius Piwowar
Wuppertal Institute / wupperinst.org/ Julius Piwowar is research associate at the Wuppertal Institute in the research area of “innovation labs”. He works on user experience design and living lab methods to develop sustainable innovations for assistance systems in the context of smart office and smart retail, for example.
Lisa Venhues
Effizienz-Agentur NRW / ressourceneffizienz.de Lisa Venhues initiates and coordinates resource-efficient consultancy projects at the Effizienz-Agentur NRW. She works with production companies from the industrial and handicrafts sector on the development of resource-efficient products and business models, as well as on the integration of ecodesign approaches in the product design process. Lisa Venhues studied environmental engineering and resource management at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and energy engineering at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
Michael Niemczyk
Effizienz-Agentur NRW / ressourceneffizienz.de/startseite Michael Niemczyk has been with the Effizienz-Agentur NRW (EFA) for over 20 years as corporate consultant for increased resource efficiency. Besides manufacturing optimisation projects, his work also focuses on environmentally-friendly product design. Here the goal is to restructure a company’s development processes in such a way that the consideration of environmental aspects is integrated into the development of every product. He is also part of the Effizienz-Preis NRW team and represents the EFA in the European Network of Ecodesign Centres.
Mireille Reijme
RWS Senior Advisor Circular Economy / afvalcirculair.nl Mireille Reijme is an expert in the field of sustainable material use, energy efficiency, and circular design. She currently advises the Dutch government and companies about the circular economy and stimulates sustainable projects in order to reduce waste and make products and businesses more material- efficient. She is a member of ENEC (European Network of Ecodesign Centers) and CEN/CLC JTC10 - to develop materials efficiency standards for electronics. She is interested in value creation through sustainable development.
Moritz Zielke
Studio W / studiow.green/ Moritz Zielke (born in 1973) is an actor and designer. He studied design at the KISD in Cologne and stood in front of the camera for 25 years on the German TV serial “Lindenstraße”, among other productions. In 2011, his interest in ecologically meaningful design and home planning led him to open Studio W together with his partner, architect Wibke Schaeffer. Moritz Zielke has been teaching aesthetics and design studies at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund since the winter semester of 2016/2017.
Nadége Van Lierde
Pôle Eco-conception / eco-conception.fr/ Nadége Van Lierde works with companies to integrate life cycle thinking and ecodesign into their management systems. She helps them understand their environmental impacts all along the life cycle of their activities, products or services in order to plan actions consistently with their strategy and therefore improve their performance. Pôle Eco-conception is an French association of industries which promotes the diffusion of best practises in ecodesign through their activities of researching, transferring and publishing knowledge, training and consulting.
Nina Ruthe Klein & David Antonin
DESIGN STUDIO NIRUK / niruk.de/ Nina Ruthe and David Antonin are the chairpeople and delegates of the VDID NRW (Verband Deutscher Industrie Designer – German Industry Designers’ Association). Together they run the DESIGN STUDIO NIRUK. Material, form and function guide their work, in which sustainability plays an ever growing role. Besides their work for international clients, they both teach product design at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf.
Tobias Häusler
moderator / tobiashaeusler.de Tobias Häusler moderates the nationwide news magazine for WDR (West German Broadcasting), WDR2, radio programmes and stage events. One focus are events on digitalisation, sustainability and transformation of the Ruhr region. He has moderated the Digital Summit for the German Government, the Ruhr Conference for the state government of NRW, and the Effizienz-Preis (“Efficiency Award”) for the Effizienz-Agentur NRW (“Efficiency Agency”). Tobias Häusler’s passion is the interview, for which he has won the Axel-Springer-Preis and been nominated for the Grimme-Preis.
Wibke Schaeffner
Studio W / studiow.green/ Wibke Schaeffer (born in 1973) studied free art, architecture and interior design in Denmark. Since 2002, Cologne-based Schaeffer has been freelancing from her planning office Lichte Art, which specialises in ecological colour design, historic preservation and psychology of space. Since 2011 she has co-managed a planning office with designer Moritz Zielke under the label Studio W. Their customers are the organic sector, world shops and minimalists.
Wilko Brahms
Description follows..The Ecodesign Conference will take place in cooperation with the ökoRAUSCH Think Tank.
Stadt Land Welt
As in previous years, our long-time partner, and co-organiser of the festival since 2016, Stadt Land Welt e.V. has been largely responsible for the content-related and, most of all, methodologically planned communication of featured issues for a broad audience.
Complex subject areas regarding environment and development, such as the ecological footprint, the use of resources and climate change, global supply chains, land grabbing, working conditions and human rights, as well as civic involvement, will be presented in an accessible way to visitors with respective theme-based exhibitions. There will also be thematic presentations, workshops and performances.
As co-organiser, Stadt Land Welt is responsible for the educational aspect of the Festival. It will also present its own complementary programme to present to the interested public environmental and development policy issues as they pertain to sustainable design.
