Nachhaltige Nachhaltigkeitsbildung / Sustainable Sustainability Education
/ English version below / Auf der Suche nach fruchtbaren Feldern für unsere Arbeit sind wir schon vor einiger Zeit bei Bildung …
Modularity Creates Wealth / Modularität schafft Wohlstand
Deutsche Version unten English: There’s a new blog post from me over at the Mifactori blog. It explains why and how modularity …
Video & Utopia: Open Source Circular Economy? / Open Source Kreislaufwirtschaft
(Deutsch unten) EN Here is a 10min explainer video on Open Source Circularity – what is it and why do we need it? If …
Turn Failed Sustainability Startups Into Fertile Soil/Humus For New Ones – By Making Them Open Source
EN I have this idea for a while now and after my first interaction with the sustainability startup accelerator Climate KIC in …
Our „Circular Economy“ Is A „Spiral Economy“ Or … – A Vision
The OSCEdays Stewards are looking into creating a new definition for “Circular Economy” tfor the the OSCEdays future. I am put in …
Pre-Use – ‚A Perfect Term & Operation To Let A Circular World Emerge‘?
I came across a very good term to explain and explore circular design and inspire research about it. The term is „Pre-Use“. …
The Open Source Circular City – A SCENARIO For City HACKERS!
(Deutsch unten) tl;wr: Check This Scenario on Hacking towards the Open Source Circular City! > I was invited as a fellow to …
2017 – IPO Tables: It’s On Again!
EN – Repost from IPO Tables – The IPO tables project has been quiet for a while as other projects needed our full attention. …
Lego Meccano Hybrids
EN + DE EN: I did a little fun/art project called “Lego-Meccano-Hybrids”. Drill into Lego & combine it with Meccano/Eitech parts using also some …
‚Make It Circular‘ – An Open Poster – Ready To Download In 8+ Languages
EN In March 2017 I started an open project to develop an open instruction poster about circular making that can be downloaded …
To Make Our Cities Circular, Sustainable & Free We Need To Hack Them!
/ Deutsch unten / English: My city hacking works continues. And for this I wrote a new mission statement Why Hacking Is The …
The Urban Food Gardener (A Startup) – An Institution Of The Circular City
EN + DE EN: SUMMARY: Make a business with urban food gardening and create a corner stone for the sustainable and …
Don’t invent a new modular system try to use (hack into) an existing one!
(DEUTSCH & ENGLISH) EN: We are continuing our research on modularity for circularity. And we learned a very important thing: „Don’t invent …
In The TIME MACHINE to the ‚Open Source Circular City‘ of 2050
What was this for? Context provided at the end of the article (scroll down to Open Labs). ° – ‚The Time Machine‘ …
Video Series & Online Course on Business Models for Open Source Circularity
Video 1 out of 9; find ALL VIDEOS here ° I created an online course about Business Models for Open Source Hardware …
Upcoming Mifactori Events: @PlanetB – NRW-Forum Düsseldorf – 3erlin Grid, Chess- & City-Hacking Sessions
Repost from the Mifactori Blog – english / deutsch With this post we announce a large 10 day hackathon event with a …
A Hardware Network Effect, or: Why is Mifactori using a 3x3cm Grid
I wrote a Blogpost about network effects in circular open hardware for the Mifactori Blog. It gives an introduction to the 3erlin Grid …
‚Fehler-Ausstrahlungs-Effekt‘ bei Modularität / ‚Error-Spreading-Effect‘ in Modularity
Two Mirrors of Blogposts about Modularity I wrote for the Mifactori Blog [1] The ’Fehler-Ausstrahlungs-Effekt’ / ‘Error-Spreading-Effects’ in Modularity (Meta: Post is part …
„Open-Source-Circular-Design ist unfassbar hässlich!“ – Ein Briefwechsel zwischen André Wendler und Lars Zimmermann
(–,de) UPDATE: Dieser Beitrag ist auch in Buchform erschienen. Das Buch heißt: Die Welt reparieren – Open Source und Selbermachen als postkapitalistische …
Open Source & Circular Economy Is Collaboration with UNKNOWNS
(en;–) This is only a sketch for a longer article i will probably not find the time to write. But i wanted …
The OSCEdays 2015 – My Resume – June 30, 2015
(en;–) The Documentation of the global side of the first Open Source Circular Economy Days – OSCEdays – is published. And I think …
Videos
EN & DE EN: A short selection of videos with me or from me, mostly from talks I gave. Most in english …
Open Source Kreislaufwirtschaft – OCC15 Video
(–;de) Letzte Woche war ich in Linz, um auf dem Open Commons Kongress über die Idee und Frage von Open Source für …
Open Ecosystems in China
(en,–) This posting was originally written for the Open Source Circular Economy Days (OSCEdays) Blog. Being part of the OSCEdays organisational core …
Patents & Innovation-Costs in an Open-Source-Circular-World
(en;–) This wednesday (March 5th 2015) i am going to sit on a two person podium with the patent-lawyer Dr. Dirk Schleitzer …
From „Products In & Waste Out“ to „Data In & Data Out“
(en; deutsche Version unten) A while ago i stumbled over a great documentary by Tristan Copley Smith and Sam Muirhead about the …
Open Source Circular Economy / Open Source Kreislaufwirtschaft – a Mission Statement
design by jenni ottilie keppler-cc-by -source download here; (en; de) > deutsche Version unten > What is an „Open Source Circular Economy“? …
IPO @Science Hack Day Berlin 2014
(en;–) Last Weekend we (Me, Sarah, Sebastian, Christoph) were @Science Hack Day Berlin 2014 hacking on a prototype for IPO Creating Circles. …
IPO Tables Project started
(en; de) I started with the support of the Open It Agency a new project on: Open Source and Circular Economy. The …
Open Standards in the Packaging Industry / Offene Standards in der Verpackungsindustrie
(en; de) by Sam Muirhead & Lars Zimmermann, (Crosspost) In our Open It Agency we are putting together a task force on …
Open Source Hardware & my & your Freedom #3 Sustainability & Global Equality
(en; de) This is Posting No 3 of 4 in a series about open source hardware & freedom called “Open Source Hardware …
Open Source Hardware & Gift Economy
(en; de) Summary: Open Source Hardware works like gift-economy in some ways. Gift-Economy means to give something away without expecting something back …
OWi is new
(en; de) OWi has a new webpage and collaboration concept. It is still fresh and a lot is left to do. But …
Open Source Hardware Documentation Project #2: A SHARED GRID (introducing IPO)
(en;–) (This post is part of an OSHW DOCU Project) (Update: I created a project where we develop a simple prototype experimenting …
Regenerative Open Structures
(deutsche Version unten) How to build a regenerative, cradle to cradle, waste-free world? Everything needs to be desgined eceoffective: in a way …
Biodegradable Streetart Rat, 25. Dez. 2013
(en;–) At my weekend-project Berlin Rats i created a biodegradable rat ☺. Watch it biodegrade. Follow this blog. See more at the …
Open Source Circular Economy Days
(2014* – ACTIVE) I initiated and develop with a team of international garbologists, designers & open source advocats a global event and …