The last day of the jam was full of wild prototyping and ended with the presentations of 6 fantastic concepts. You will find more photos about day 3 here soon. Stay tuned… The morning started with a vivid input by Raul Krauthausen of Sozialhelden, presenting their way of working as well as realised project of...
After getting to know each other on Friday evening the participants started on Saturday working on their challenge. Having had a huge breakfast and input from three morning lectures the 6 teams defined their different approaches of tackling the global ‘Playground’ topic. A physical profile wall was created so while having a coffee break one...
The Global Sustainability Jam Berlin started with a great get-together, watching the global challenge video presentation and listening to the first input lecture by social entrepreneur Johanna Richter from agbe e.V. Day 1 closed with the all-time classics pizza and beer and a surprising fire show. After arriving at the Fjord office in the heart...
We are very happy to make a last-minute speaker announcement: Yvonne Rusche and Karim Tarraf will be giving a talk on financial sustainability in microfinance on Sunday morning and will thus bring a very interesting perspective to the Berlin Jam. People in poor countries remain poor because the majority of them do not have the...
We are happy to announce that Veronica Veneziano from Slow Food Germany will give an insight into two of their recent project. Veronica will show that Slow Food deals with food in many ways and is not ‘just a fancy way of eating’. One of the projects Veronica will talk about is called “Teller statt...
We are really excited about everyone who is participating in the Berlin jam. Although we’ll be able to gather some tools and materials, it would be great if every participant brings additional equipment with her/him. We have no idea yet how everyone of you will work and hence what you’ll need in order to research,...
Roman Dashuber from THEMA1 will be speaking about a topic that we are enjoying everyday: music. When we look at music from the standpoint of sustainability we have to consider that the music and entertainment industry is very energy-intensive in all spheres (production, distribution, playback, performance). The Green Music Initiative (GMI) is a project from...
The Global Sustainability Jam is all about collaboration on an international level. Besides livestreaming what’s going on at our venue, we will have a twin jam in Helsinki with which we will share insights, present our projects and just hook up in general. The Helsinki Jam will host about 30 people and is organized by...
Today we want to share a new speaker announcement with you. Johanna Richter from ‘AGBE – Perspectives for West Africa e.V.’ will open the Global Sustainability Jam Berlin on Friday, Oct 29, 2011, with a talk on the solar lamp project “Enlightening Chances”. One of Agbe’s 13 co-founders, she is currently CEO of the Berlin-based...
How might we use design to change people’s daily routines for the better? Timm Kekeritz, founder of software design firm Raureif, will talk about and showcase the EcoChallenge app targeting to change human behaviour.
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Coffee Circle
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Lemke
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Märkisches Landbrot
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