Featured
2024– · #climate #cities
№ 01 · Ongoing
Coaching cities on youth-led climate action across Europe
European regional lead for the Youth Climate Action Fund – mobilising young residents to design and deliver local climate solutions across 300 cities.
RoleEuropean regional lead (coaching & coordination)
PartnerBloomberg Philanthropies
StatusOngoing
01 / 05
ProjectDescriptionPartnerTagsYear
Coaching cities on youth-led climate action across Europe
European regional lead for the Youth Climate Action Fund – mobilising young residents to design and deliver local climate solutions across 300 cities.
Bloomberg Philanthropies
#climate #cities
2024–
Supporting European cities toward climate neutrality
Strategic city support within the EU mission to bring 112 cities to climate neutrality by 2030 – through multi-actor governance and portfolios.
EU Commission · Dark Matter Labs
#climate #cities #governance
2023–
Building a tool for distributed governance in practice
A practical system for civic ecosystems to self-coordinate through distributed agreements – tailored to bioregions and cities.
Dark Matter Labs
#governance #technology
2023–
Designing a systemic air quality portfolio for Almaty
Applying portfolio methodology to urban air quality in Kazakhstan – building systemic conditions for change rather than isolated fixes.
UNDP · Dark Matter Labs
#climate #cities
2024
Exploring the state of digital civil society in Germany
A commissioned study on the maturity and future of digital civil society in Germany – published 2024, presented at re:publica 2025.
Stiftung Mercator
#research #democracy
2023–2024
Advising on strategy and narrative for digital sovereignty
Strategic and narrative advisor to Germany's federal centre for digital sovereignty in public administration.
ZenDiS
#governance #technology
2024–
Building a GovTech procurement product from the inside
Interim product lead in a small founding team – user research, strategy, and design for a public procurement tool later acquired.
GovMind GmbH
#technology #governance
2023–2024
Shaping an innovation framework for African cities
Collaborative research and writing on urban innovation and governance across African contexts, with a book chapter forthcoming with De Gruyter.
African Centre for Cities, Cape Town
#cities #research
2023–
A course to rethink public innovation from first principles
An independent course and writing project on what public innovation actually requires, and why the dominant frameworks keep falling short.
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#governance #teaching
2023–
Teaching systemic resilience strategy to city teams
Master classes and coaching for a foundation programme building climate and resilience capacity across European cities.
BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
#cities
2023–2024
Mapping Germany's GovTech ecosystem
An ecosystem study of the players, gaps, and dynamics shaping government technology in Germany.
GovTech Campus Deutschland · World Economic Forum
#technology #research
2024
Designing a participatory narrative for Berlin's Smart City strategy
Part of the team shaping how Berlin's flagship digital city programme was framed, narrated, and understood.
CityLab Berlin · Politics for Tomorrow
#cities #technology
2022–2023
Researching the future of public services
Research on the principles and conditions for future-proof basic services (Daseinsvorsorge) in an age of digital and ecological transition.
IZT Potsdam · Wuppertal Institut
#research #governance
2022
Exploring urban data governance for Neue Hanse
Examining how cities might govern data as a shared resource, part of a broader inquiry into post-digital urban futures.
The New Institute
#cities #governance
2022
Researching the future of free knowledge
Research and strategic advisory for Wikimedia's accelerator on how open-knowledge and civic communities innovate.
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
#research #democracy
2020
Coaching civic tech teams to build public-interest technology
Coaching 150+ early-stage teams on strategy, product, and organisation, alongside early advisory to the programme.
Prototype Fund · Open Knowledge Foundation
#technology #democracy
2016–2022
Co-founding a public design and city innovation lab
Co-lead of a Berlin public design practice, the starting point for sustained work on cities and public innovation.
Zero360
#venturing #cities
2020–2023
Probing data, identity, and narrative ownership through art
A documentary and interactive web project on what online data reveals, and who owns the story it tells. Still live.
LAOKOON
#research #technology
2020
Founding a global conference on technology and ethics
Co-founded and ran ThingsCon (2014–2024), a conference and community on responsible, human-centred connected technology.
Independent
#venturing #technology
2014–2024
Co-designing and curating a design-research fellowship
A fellowship gathering researchers and practitioners working at the frontier of design, ecology, and systemic thinking.
SOAM
#venturing #research
2023
Founding a festival on creative technologies
A festival in Dortmund exploring art, design, and technology in a post-industrial metropolitan ecosystem.
Florida Brand Design · Dortmunder U
#venturing
2016–2018
Building a tech venture across Berlin, London, and the US
Co-founded a Seedcamp-selected startup through five financing rounds, in the space of open hardware and distributed teams.
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#venturing #technology
2011–2015
Teaching
Lectures, studios & guest programmes
ProgrammeInstitutionTagTermYear
Systems Thinking for Public Servants
Verwaltungsakademie Berlin
#governance
Recurring
2024–
Societal Design & Governance
University of Applied Arts Vienna
#socialdesign
Visiting
2023–