Outputs

Co-Founding

Co-founding and growing Mobisol from a team of 5 German engineers in a co-working space to a company with 1000+ employees selling hundreds of thousands of PV solar systems in Tanzania, Rwanda and Kenya. And then (almost) going bankrupt again. Mobisol’s Hard-learned lessons 2011-2018
Co-creating UNLOCK, Wikimedia Deutschland’s accelerator program What makes UNLOCK unique 2019-2021
Co-founding Lovolab, a collective of likeminded researchers, managers and designers working on projects for a more equal and sustainable future. 2021 – today

Consulting + Coaching

Project coach for Femtec’s 4-month careerbuilding program Innovation Lab 2020 – today
Start-up Coach Helmholtz Field Study Fellowships with Crop Insurance, VSF Loop & Scinergy 2021 – today
Advisor on remote cocreation Forum Open Education 2020-2021
Instructor for the topics Uncovering bias and Ethical Ideation for unlock cohort and Köln International School of Design 2021

Facilitator of our discover-complexity workshop format with a team of SPACE 10 2021
Designer and Facilitator of a 6-week Design Sprint titled “Diversity im Unternehmen” gsub 2021
Lead coach for the 3-week summer school climate-KIC The Journey
Coach project strategy & team development with Follow the Vote 2021
Trained coordinators of the EU program EIP-Agri how to run effective team retrospectives 2022
Facilitator of yearly strategy conventions at Bündnis Freie Bildung, Conpolicy and gsub.
Design Thinking coach at HPI Academy for numerous executive workshops 2012-2022
Moderation Ideenkonferenz der TU Berlin Dialog-Platform 2018 & 2020
Advisor open-source-based product-service bundles and business models opin.me 2017
Advisor fair & sustainable business models in the art sector flaneur magazine 2017
Instructor Using Design Thinking to uncover a problem that is worth solving YouLead Summit 2017
Plus a few hidden behind non-disclosure agreements

Writing

Book chapter on how to use prototyping and reframing in service design This is service design doing 2018
Book chapter on how we used lean & agile approaches to develop Mobisol’s business model for Decentralized Energy – a global game changer 2020
Article about three tactics to help root service design in an engineering-driven organisation Touchpoint Journal 2015

Artikel mit konkreten Hinweisen um das Beste aus virtuellen Meetings herauszuholen bpb 2021
Article on how to make virtual meetings more engaging for UNLOCK 2021
Visual poesy for romka magazine 2015
Research article on how to design for multilingual user groups Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014
Research article on issues of microfinance in the off-grid energy sector UMM Thematic Paper 2013
Academic paper summarizing my field research on bad-quality solar installations in Tanzania MPDES Conference 2011

Talks

How we used service design at Mobisol Service Experience Camp 2015
Mindful and ethical product design in the context of Global South Discover Complexity 2021

Why and how to become an entrepreneur in science for Helmholtz AI 2022
The difference between agency-driven and in-house service design Designing the Organisation 2019

Interviews

About the interplay of service design and business strategy for The Future of Service Design 2020
About threats and opportunities of entrepreneurship and decentralized approaches in the energy sector for the ESMT podcast Campus 10178 2020
Über Mobisols Geschäftsmodell und warum Probleme nicht immer mit Technologie gelöst werden sollten für Germanwatch 2018
About the adoption of service design in the Global South for 5by5 2017