MISSION (as of 01.2024):

EXPLORING WAYS TO APPLY Regenerative PRACTICES TO SELF,
COMMUNITY and the LAND.

Call for collaboration on making this happen:

CONFERENCE ON REGENERATIVE FUTURES OF VANCOUVER ISLAND

If you are curious and would like to be part of the organizing team, please reach out!

WORKING TOWARDS

“The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible”
(Charles Eisenstein)

…and regularly asking…

What is mine to do?

WORK SKILLS

Visual Scribing: Generative Scribing, Visual Sensemaking, Sketchnoting, Illustration, Graphic Design, Alternative Communication Strategies, Conceptual Thinking

Systems Thinking and Soft Systems Modelling with multiple stakeholders: Useful in the early stage of a project to develop a shared vision and alignment.

WORK

My work has been featured on Spiegel-Online, Arte, and several other blogs and platforms.

• Co-Founder & Member of the Open Source Consulting Agency “Open It Agency” (2014–2018)

• Member of the support team around OPENMEDiAID (January – July 2015)

• Exhibition "Tiefsee-Expedition Von-Stolz & Keppler" with Philipp Amand Stulz (May 2015, on-going)

• Happy Thinkfarmer at the Thinkfarm Berlin, Co-Working Space for Eco-Social Change (April 2014–01 2017)

• OUI Share Fest 2014 Team Member; taking care of alternative marketing and helping plan on-site experiences

• Co-working and teaming for the OUI Share Summit Berlin (March–June 2014)

• Visual Appearance of OPENit Festival Berlin (2013) and Open Source Circular Economy Days (2015)

• Volunteer at OUI Share Fest 2013 + OUI Share Fest 2015 + OUI Share Fest 2016

• Co-Founder of CuriosiTea (2013)

• Co-Founder of TAAK! Tauschakademie Halle (2013)

• Animation Music Video for the Song "Ghosts" (Music by The Head And The Heart )(2012)

• Co-Founder of BURGgrün – University-related Environmental Group (2009)

• Freelance illustrator and animator for Arkadia & Co. Design Brooklyn, NY (since 2011)

EDUCATION

• Master of Science in Global Change Management at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany.
  (September 2019 — February 2024)

• Visiting Graduate Researcher with the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Research Institute (MABRRI) at Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
  Research on the implementation of regional-scale Circular Sanitation solutions in the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region applying a systems thinking approach involving systems modelling and interviews and a workshop with multiple stakeholders.
  (April 2022 – February 2024)

• International Forest Ecosystem Management B.Sc. at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (2018–2019, no degree)

• Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design, University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle, Germany (2008–2013)

• Erasmus all'ISIA Urbino, Italy (6 months, 2011)

• Life on planet earth (1986 – now)

ACADEMIC Scholarships

• DAAD: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service): DAAD.HAW International für Abschlussarbeiten
  (6 months; April 2022 – September 2022)

• DAAD: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
  (German Academic Exchange Service): Scholarship for Research in UNESCO Biosphere Regions
  (3 months; October 2022 – January 2023)

AWARDS

• Selected for the International Animation Festival Supertoon Festival 2014 in Sibenik with the Music Animation Video "Ghosts" in the categories Animation Short and Animated Music Video

• Nominated thrice for the Giebichenstein Design Preis 2013 (for TAAK! Tauschakademie + CuriosiTea)

• Awarded for TAAK! Tauschakademie with the Special Award of the Freistil e.V. Jugendengagementwettbewerb (2013)

LEISURE TIME SKILLS

• Natural flame holder of community and team spirit

• All Natural Networker

• First one on the dance floor

• Fluent: English, German, Italian
  Intermediate: Spanish, French

Soft Skills

deep listening, emotional intelligence, compassionate communication

Other valuable Experiences

I was able to collect a grand variety of experiences while traveling by bike and foot, hitch hiking, food saving, bartering, canoeing down the Hudson for the Two Row Camp, dancing, wwoofing, selling asparagus, recycling at Zero Waste events, visiting recycling sites, studying and social-working in Italy, attending international team building seminars and exchanges, working and organizing in different team settings for events and trips.

Incomplete list of Commissioners of the past few years

• RIEP Forum – Rural Island Economic Partnership Forum

• SEED Neighborhood Nanaimo

• Farmhack / Schola Campesina / 11th Hour Project for the Grassroots Innovation for Agroecology Conference

• Town of Qualicum Beach: Climate Change Adaptation Meeting

Teaching & Workshops:

• Vancouver Island University: as a guest lecturer on Visual Sensemaking for the Master of Community Planning Program under Sonal Dekmukh
  (November 2023)

• University of Victoria: as a workshop host on visualizing energy flows in systems for the Ecological Design Course under Kristian Dubrawski
  (April 2023)

• GTO e.V.: World Toilet Day 2023: Gender Equality and Toilets; Workshop on Visual Sensemaking co-facilitated with Joanna Mitchell

• ZirkulierBAR / Valoo: Connect the Networks Conference, Zurich 2023

• Loo:Topia: Alternative Sanitation Track at Re:publica 2023

• Mid Vancouver Island Multicultural Society

• Betula & Mama Buche (Vanillaway)

• Bildungscent e.V.

• DFJW | Youth for Peace 2018

• Ecosynomics – Institute for Strategic Clarity

• Friederike Abitz – Co-Creative Facilitator

• Galerie Baeren Berlin

• Green City e.V. München

• Havelmi***

• Heinrich-Böll Stiftung (Green political foundation)

• Kendo Halle e.V.

• Kirschgarten Werder (Permaculture Cherry Plantations)

• Linkaa

• NABU e.V. (Nature Protection Association)

• OPENMEDiAID (open source, non-profit, patient-centered and collaborative medicine platform)

• Open Source Circular Economy Days

• OUIShare (Network of the Sharing & Collaborative Economy)

• PIK –Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

• Pulsartrio

• Quartiermeister – Bier für den Kiez (Social Enterprise)

• Silberschmiede Sassnitz

• Thinkfarm Berlin

• TradeSchool Berlin (Knowledge + Skill Sharing based on barter)

• VDI | Zentrum für Ressourceneffizienz

• Weltwärts e.V. | Konferenz 10 Jahre weltwärts

Let's create together!