COCREATION FOUNDATION - Key Persons
I work on new forms of collaboration and cocreation which empower our individual potential to discover our joint potential in diverse, living processes.
Over the past 16 years I have been working as a founder, creator, designer, and project developer. I'm a moderator and facilitator of participatory and collaborative design processes. As a permaculture designer I understand how to design complex sustainable systems. As a philosopher, theorist and intellectual I work on the theory and methodology of cocreative processes and transformative practice, steadily seeking options that allow us to develop the collective intelligence that is necessary to design the world we live in, in different and better ways.
Since 2008, I have been the co-founder and executive director of the Institute for Participatory Design, and am also the founder of the German Permaculture Institute (Permakultur Akademie Deutschland). I studied at London Guildhall University, University of Trier and University of Oldenburg, and was an associate of the Research Training Group on "Technification and Society" at University of Darmstadt. I've furthermore received scholarships from the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Schumacher College and the Future Global Leader Award by the Bertelsmann Stiftung and the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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- Chairman of the Foundation Board
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- COMPLEX GOVERNANCE DESIGNER
I am a complex systems thinker developing new routes and approaches to perceiving and acting in complexity. An ex-microbiologist and 10+ years systems thinker, I work across multiple societal contexts applying a complexity and systems thinking lens and have worked in organisational design, advised government, the education sector and the food and farming sector.
Most recently, I worked in the field of philanthropy and funding. I am working with The National Lottery Community Fund to implement systems-thinking approaches to funding and reporting models and leading insight and learning at the Digital Fund. I am often hired to seed, catalyse and build new networks and communities of sensemaking and intelligence, utilising my skills in digital organising, facilitation, pattern matching and interdisciplinary sense-making. I have also worked in designing online and offline learning programmes, designing governance systems and working with organisations. I held a position as Associate Lecturer at Schumacher College on systems thinking and Gaian microbiology, I am an Advisory Board member of The International Bateson Institute, co-founder of DGOV Foundation - a community of distributed governance practitioners and a Member at Enspiral - a decentralised systems change and governance network.
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- PHILOSOPHER & PHILANTHROPIST
I am dedicated to the development of social entrepreneurs and the understanding of the complexities of social change.
I'm an entrepreneur in financial services, media, property and banking, founded Investment Banking Partners AB and served as chairman of EFG Investment Bank. In 2008, I established the Ekskäret Foundation in Stockholm, which aims to facilitate personal development and social change. A special focus of the foundation is supporting the development of social entrepreneurs and the understanding of the complexities of social change. The foundation operates a conference and retreat facility on its island Ekskäret in the Stockholm archipelago.
I'm also the co-founder of the research institute Perspectiva in London, of the Cocreation Foundation, the media platform Emerge in Berlin and 29k personal development platform. I'm moreover the author of three books: The Market Myth (2016), The Nordic Secret (together with Lene Rachel Andersen, 2017) and The World We Create (2019). I divide my time between London, Stockholm and Berlin.