Activist-researcher and freelancer (agile) project and organisation manager and fundraising. Currently working with Ecobytes, Transition Town Witzenhausen, Förderverein Wachstumswende and Research & Degrowth.
Degree in Environmental Engineering and PhD in Environmental Sciences, specialized in Ecological Economics and Political Ecology with a thesis on environmental conflicts between peasants and eucalyptus plantations. Engaged in civil society movements on environment, climate justice, food and economics discourses since more than 15 years. At Ecobytes I work as Drupal developer and maintainer, project and events manager, scrum master and consultant for several non-profit organisations and networks. Once in a while I teach on degrowth and agriculture at the University of Kassel. Ocasionally I collaborate to the journal Ecología Política as member of the Editorial board.
Here are a few concrete projects I'm currently working on:
- TransforMap framework and platform for mapping the alternative economies (scrum master, developer)
- edgeryders company and community platform (development, optimization and consultancy)
- teilink, a solidarity exchange platform for matching offers and needs of people in a region, especially directed at refugees solidarity (project manager, developer)
- co-munity collaboration and social networking platform (project manager, developer)
- plantei.eu seed bank and exchange site (co-manager, communicator)
- Transition Town Witzenhausen community house (co-working space and hackerspace)
Some recent past projects:
- GROWL, a network for training and producing educational materials on degrowth (EU partnership on adult education, Erasmus+ KA2) [2013-15]
- Fourth International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity (core organizer, program, GAP and online participants area) [2013-14]
- UnvergEssbar Konferenz 2013 (project manager and fundraiser)
- Beyond Our Backyards [2011-13] (international coordinator and fundraiser)
Current focus and interests include:
- agile and convivial project management in the production of commons
- development of social networking sites and platform cooperativism
- linked open data and the semantic web
- degrowth, climate justice and political ecology
- education and (co-)production of knowledge