MEET OUR MENTORS
KAORI PI worked as a global financial strategist for Greenpeace International after leaving the financial sector. She develops products and brands that are focused on the sustainable future and can make a difference. She is the creative force behind Durat Palace, an award-winning solid surface recycled material manufactured in Finland. She puts change into action, sometimes even against all standards. She transforms and distils seemingly impossible ideas until they can be realised as viable, value-oriented and sustainable ventures.
MIKE BOYLE is a lecturer for recycling management at various universities in Austria. He is a convinced furgalist and runs a websiteto spread the Frugal Innovation Methods, i.e. to develop sustainable and valuable solutions with the currently available means. In addition to the Open Education Initiative, which he Twitch he is also a radio producer (Moniker Radio Tipping Point) on Radio Orange 94.0 Vienna.
KATYA WERNER is a Berlin designer. Since 2007 she has been working on the upcycling of seemingly disused materials, which she uses in a meaningful and often surprising context. In her shop studio, she creates individual product designs for corporate clients as well as impressive unique pieces and small series. Her aim is to discover the advantages and properties of a material and to make them usable in a sustainable way, free from its previous function.
MATTHIAS ROED works for Konglomerat e.V., which he founded together with friends in 2012. The association supports people in doing things themselves and runs an open and multifunctional workshop for this purpose, on approx. 800 square metres near the centre of Dresden - the #Rosenwerk. In 12 work areas of carpentry with 3D printing laboratory, you can do (almost) everything (yourself) here. One of the younger areas is the plastic smithy: since 2017, plastic can be recycled here. With the help of a grant from the National Climate Initiative, Matthias accompanied the construction and development as project coordinator. In the meantime, Kunststoffschmiede has become a permanent recycling address in Dresden and Matthias and the other enthusiasts in the team are considering how industry can now also be inspired to recycle more.
DR. LENA BONEVA was an employee at the Bank of England, where she initiated the environmental management system and helped to put the Bank on the road to Paris compatibility. She is currently working at the European Central Bank on topics such as central banking, climate change and sustainable innovation. She also contributed to publications of the "Networks for Greening the Financial System (NGFS)". Privately, Lena lives "zero waste" with her family and gives seminars and workshops.
CONRAD DORER works for the Federal Environment Agency and is concerned with sustainable consumption. His current focus is on how to further promote the sustainable design of products and services. Since 2016 he has been coordinating the EU Interreg project in the Baltic Sea region "EcoDesign Circle (4.0)", in which design centres and companies are enabled to design for recirculation systems using practical methods and knowledge.
ANTOANETA TICA is a visual artist. To illustrate her concern about environmental problems, she transforms plastic, the artificial product of pollutants, into objects with aesthetic value. In this way she can effectively convey her message of protecting nature. Antoaneta holds a PhD in Fine Arts and teaches at the Fashion Department of the National University of the Arts in Bucharest, Romania.
JEFFREY BARBEE is a sought-after author and filmmaker. He is director and founder of Alliance Earth, an independent non-profit initiative and director of the Dung Beetle Project. He specializes in cross-platform multimedia and event-based projects that bring together art, media and technology to raise awareness of global environmental issues. He lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.
ANNELI ANGLAS RODRIGUEZ is a designer and works under the motto "Being green is not only for aliens" with novel natural materials. For her brand Onno Bruu it develops modern lifestyle products. In her design workshops she lets participants experience how to make bioplastics from milk or what can be made from bacterial cellulose leather.
Dr. LARS GUTOW works as a biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven. He is investigating the reactions of marine species and ecosystems to a changing environment, focusing on human-induced environmental changes such as climate change. For almost 20 years his work has focused on studying the pollution of the oceans with (plastic) waste, how it spreads in the oceans and how it interacts with marine animals, plants and ecosystems.
Prof. ANGELICA BÖHM has been leading the artistic research project "Transmediales Erzählen: Camilla Plastic Ocean Plan" at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. More than 100 students, alumni and experts are involved. Based on the scientific expertise of the project partners from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Marine and Polar Research Bremerhaven, which specialises in plastic waste in the oceans, this project is a mind-opener, web exhibition and future workshop.
JOERG ALTEKRUSE is a well-known filmmaker and producer with a lot of experience in documentary, feature film and cross-media art. He founded Youth4planet to empower young people as cooperative storytellers and change agents to use their smartphones to film their actions.
