Tobias Ell

Learning from the best… wie Partizipationsprozesse zum Erfolg werden…

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***Study on holistic #digitalfactory models in the #manufacturingindustry*** Dear digital factory network (focus on "planning"), there is a survey out there, where I kindly ask for your precious expert time (est. 15 mins)! It is being conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology IGCV. This survey is an essential part of a research on #holisticfactorymodels in the manufacturing industry. The goal is to determine the current status, existing challenges and future needs in this area. The survey is divided into three main blocks: 1. Holistic #factoryplanning: Gain a better understanding of holistic digital factory planning, including current challenges and the level of implementation. 2. Methods and tools: Map the #digitaltools and #methods currently used in #factoryplanning, evaluate their effectiveness and identify future requirements. 3. Sociodemographic information: Collect basic demographic data on participants to better contextualise the results and ensure representativeness. What's in it for you? After completing the survey, you have the option of registering to receive the study results. You will then receive a summary of the results once the study has been completed!

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So geht Innovation...

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🥳 Interim Presentations at d-school Foundations Program – what can you take away from a Design Thinking course for your studies and what project partners will gain from it? 🎯   🎬 Last Friday at the HPI d–school, the stage was 🎤 “stage clear” for the interim presentations in front of the project partners: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Michels Kliniken, Data4Life, Cula Technologies and "Brandenburg zeigt Haltung". Like every semester, this is always a very special highlight on the 16-week path to the final presentation of the solutions – for the students and the project partners.    💬 Program lead, Lukasz Lata, summarizes his personal eye-openers: „I particularly appreciated the creativity and unfiltered presentation of the research results and potential solutions. It was fascinating to see the project partners' reactions as they experienced their challenges through the fresh, unbiased perspectives of the students. The students brought entirely new interpretations to the project challenges.“   📋 Analogue solutions can be found as well as  🖥️ digital approaches: „We are very happy to have four project partners this year. Eight teams are addressing their challenges, each building its own prototype. The students are very empathetic and good listeners, which empowers them to decide on their own what type of prototype to build that would best fit the stakeholders or the challenge. This year, we have four physical prototypes and four digital prototypes.”   ✏️ How can you, as a student, benefit from this practice-oriented learning approach? „Beyond the obvious opportunity to learn a new methodology and work on a real-life challenge with a business or institution, the biggest impact of design thinking is on the students themselves. Students learn to develop new habits such as team spirit and collaboration, listening and empathy, adopting a "yes, and..." mindset, and celebrating failures,” observes Lukasz, who, together with Dr. Claudia Nicolai, developed the program “Design Thinking Foundations.”   🔎 The project partners can also gain a lot from bringing in a practical question – a so-called design challenge. Lukasz’s thoughts: „They learn about design thinking, what it means to be innovative, and how this can trigger internal transformation. Partners benefit from research and solutions developed by students, who are more objective than internal stakeholders. They also have the opportunity to connect with d-school’s network of organizations and institutions, which can lead to collaborations, knowledge sharing, and access to new talent.“   Are you interested in studying design thinking 😎? Then register with our “Reminder” and we will inform you about the start of applications: https://lnkd.in/eZtNc6kh   📞 Interested project partners can find the right contact person here: https://lnkd.in/dhgiZV3G

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Architects and engineers seem to be apprehensive about what the future holds. I attended the BDB-Congress 2024 by the BDB - Bund Deutscher Baumeister, Architekten und Ingenieure The congress, called "BDB-Dialog" (BDB-Dialogue), focused on climate change adaptation and urban resilience, all within the context of practice and education in transition. Prof. Frank Kasprusch delivered a great keynote on sustainable urban planning, underlining the importance of space efficiency and visualizing the impact of densification using Kassel as an example. Reflecting on the amount of area we can unseal and the number of trees we can plant, considering how pathways can be minimized and buildings constructed using biogenic materials to be low in CO2 or even CO2-positive. There was a certain anxiety about the future of digitalization, particularly due to the rise of AI. An uncertainty about what the future holds, especially towards AI that can design buildings and possible take away jobs of planners. In his keynote, Matthias Zühlke showcased that historically, technology often eliminates redundant tasks. AI will not replace our creativity but rather free us from routine work, enabling planners to concentrate on designing our built environment. My key takeaway: AI will provide us with new tools that won't replace but rather support us. It's hard for me to believe that AI will soon be able to replicate a well-thought-out creative process. As of now, the results shown by image-generating AI (not even mentioning functional designs) are highly generic and obviously unimaginative. Every AI tool I've tried so far has been a disappointment, with ChatGPT being the only one I regularly use somewhere in the process, but usually not for the final result.

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SAVE THE DATE: Digital Diversity | Multiperspectivity on Digital Bodies Mittwoch, 10. Juli 2024, 19.30 Uhr, diffrakt | zentrum für theoretische peripherie https://lnkd.in/e2MzmkD5 With: Marlene Bart | Johannes Breuer | Cecilia Falkman | Swantje Martach | Tabitha Swanson | Emilia Tikka – Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt. – Investigations concerning the interplay between body representation and bodily experience continue to be a focus of numerous disciplines. With the advent of digitalization and the increasingly pervasive presence of interconnected health apps, social media, data-collecting wearables and extended-reality devices, questions about the societal impact of the generation and dissemination of data bodies only continue to grow in significance. Taking the publication of the anthology Atlas of Databodies 2 as their point of departure, our guests will discuss how pluralistic data bodies and body images can contribute to diversifying concepts of bodies. They will consider aspects of biopolitics as well as body mysticism and in how far such a concept of mysticism can productively oppose quantifiable and economic data with new understandings of data bodies. How does multiperspectivity on digital bodies succeed? Is a unified concept of data bodies necessary? To what extent do aspects of body politics and body mysticism interact with our contemporary use and understanding of technologies? These questions will form the starting point for the evening. Atlas of Databodies 2: https://lnkd.in/eipsDwm9

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What does the path to the city of the future look like? 🏙️   Our managing director Christian von den Brincken was a guest at the Podcast of the IMPACT FESTIVAL and discussed how smart cities can improve the lives of their inhabitants.   Of course, we don't want to withhold the most important results of the interview from you:   🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏼Smart city is all about citizens A smart city is not simply a technologically upgraded city, but one that aims to improve the everyday lives of its inhabitants. The key to a smart city lies in how well it meets the needs of its residents and how seamlessly it links digital and physical everyday life.   👩🏼‍💻Technology as a supporting tool Technology alone does not make a city smart. The focus should be on the meaningful integration of technologies to solve real problems and make cities more resilient and sustainable. Digital solutions such as decentralized data storage or networked infrastructures serve as a means of improving administration, transport and communication.   🤝Participation and trust as success factors A smart city can only be successful if citizens are actively involved. Transparent communication and opportunities for participation are crucial to building trust. People need to feel that their needs and opinions are taken into account in order to accept the smart city concept and play an active role in shaping it.   Got curious? You can find the link to the podcast in the original post. 👇

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Care for a mindsnack? 🧠🍴 Then click on the link below. 😋😋 In this short Mindsnack by Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences I share some of my thoughts on why and how resilience and climate adaptation can be integrated into our building stock. The interview is in German, but the automatic translation works well enough 😉 https://lnkd.in/e7gYqUaa #Resilience #ClimateAdaptation #SustainableBuildings #Innovation

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I'm glad to announce that I will be speaking at this upcoming Conference! It is an honour to be invited to share my thoughts and insights. My presentation, titled "The 3Ds: Decarbonation, Digitalisation, and De-globalisation," will provide practical recommendations for leading systemic innovation from a procurement perspective. Looking forward to an engaging and insightful session! #EIPM #Procure.ch

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The magic numbers for designing workplaces 🔮 According to Robin Dunbar, we can only manage a limited number of social relationships. The so-called Dunbar’s number can be used for building effective teams: 👉 5 extremely close friends – we share our strongest relationships with them. Example: Handelsbanken’s local branches (6 people) 👉 15 close friends – we enjoy spending meaningful time with them. Example: Buurtzorg’s self-organized teams (12 people) 👉 50 friends – people we call friends but don’t see often. Example: average size Spotify’s “tribes” (40 people) 👉 150 casual friends – people we stay in touch with but not deeply. Example: maximum plant size at W.L. Gore & Associates 💡 Groups of over 150 people lose social stability and integrity. The takeaway? Keep teams small (5-15 people) for successful teamwork and don’t let departments, locations, and plants exceed the magic number. ✍️ Read more about friends at work in our blog post ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e9ijfi2c ❓How big is your team? How many team members can you call friends? #Teamwork #Collaboration #Communication #CorporateRebels

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🌍 Cradle to Cradle: Redefining Sustainability In one of our SUSTAINX: Leaders in Sustainability episodes, I had the honor of speaking with Dr. Jan Chr. von der Lancken, Managing Director at EPEA GmbH – Part of Drees & Sommer. We discussed a groundbreaking approach to sustainable design that challenges the way we think about resources, waste, and circularity. How can we shift from simply reducing harm to actively creating positive impact for our planet? Jan shared powerful insights that could change the way we design for sustainability. Curious? Listen to the full episode here: 👉 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e3i8KvKt 👉 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/eGA-inV5 Join the conversation and discover how Cradle to Cradle can inspire your sustainability journey! #Sustainability #CradleToCradle #CircularEconomy

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Introducing New Mochi 1. Test prompt Das neue Modell mit 10 Milliarden Parametern ba- siert auf einer neuen Asymmetric Diffusion Transformer (AsymmDiT) Architektur und soll die kohärente, realistische Bewegungsdarstellung von einzelnen Objekten (wie Menschen und Tiere) besonders gut beherrschen, ebenso auch komplexe physikalische Simulationen wie Flüssigkeits-, Fell- oder Haarbewegungen. Mochi 1 geht damit, wie alle besseren Video-KIs, einen Schritt in Richtung Weltsimulator, der alles erdenkliche halbwegs realistisch darstellen kann.

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https://lnkd.in/dsd3qdxz #digitalurbanism Active Mobility is good for cities, and good for your health. Period. (German)

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Harvesting veggies growing in parks and planters across the city of Andernach in Germany is not only allowed, but encouraged! Check out this great example of placemaking triangulation, and "the power of 10" seen with an "edible city" perspective (part 2, see also part 1 about Prinzessinnengärten yesterday)! 👉 When working with places, the best placemakers give many different people many different reasons to come and enjoy a space. The best places combine multiple uses, activities and stakeholders in one place, creating day-and-night, and weeklong, buzz. 🌼 This is also true at a larger scale, as in this example from the quaint German town Andernach, which brands itself as "The Edible City". 🥕 All planters in the medieval city center are filled with herbs, berry bushes and vegetables that everybody is encouraged to harvest from. A lot of municipal services are also framed as "edible". The municipal jobs training program , for instance, maintains the city's orchards and vegetable beds and look after the chickens living in the downtown castle moat. Children are engaged via the mobile educational garden that visits those kindergartens that don't have their own vegetable plot. The edible school road project has 2nd graders adopting miniature plots in tree pits around their school, sowing seeds and nurturing their miniature garden throughout the academic year. Even the local archeological excavation site has set up two gardens, representing what would be cultivated in this region during Roman times and in Medieval times. 🐛 The image gives a snapshot of some of the initiatives of Andernach, that in sum create a visually attractive, biodiverse and regenerative town. This is part of the examples I give on placemaking when I hold talks and trainings on these topics. The images don't really do the town justice though, the photos are taken very early in the year, mid-week and daytime, when not so many people are in the streets. 🍎 The initiative in Andernach is clever in that it weaves the edible perspectives into all aspects of city life; so even if you are just a history buff, curious about sustainable lifestyles, or simply a lover of local wine, you will connect with the Edible City. With its unique branding, the town also attracts large quantities of national and international tourists, which benefits all those local businesses that may not be directly related to the "edible" branding. Read more about Stadt Andernach Andernach Edible City here: https://lnkd.in/dkvVkZmi #placemaking #placemakingeurope #placemakingx #sociallifeproject #thepowerof10 #placemakingprinciples #triangulation #naturebasedsolutions #regenerativecities #neweuropeanbauhaus

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History is repeating itself. The AfD’s branding of #Bauhaus as an “error of modernity” is an attempt to distort the legacy of a movement that stands for #openness, #creativity, and #progress - in short: for something #new. Once again, anything that challenges a narrow, backward-looking worldview is labeled as a threat. Bauhaus wasn’t just a fleeting trend — it reshaped design, architecture, and everyday life in ways that are still relevant today. Its emphasis on functionality, simplicity, and innovation continues to inspire and define modern design. Attacking Bauhaus is attacking decades of progress that has improved the way we live, work, and build. We must remember the lessons of the past and stand against those trying to rewrite history. Because going backwards can never be the new forwards, can it? #AFDkissmyass #BeWildAndDifferent #Bauhaus #Modernism #CulturalHeritage #DesignProgress #progress #newthinking #new #creativity #DefendModernity #democracy

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Great: The new issue of the VDE dialog is online 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 - Our connected house! 🏠 How smart buildings contribute to climate protection and the current developments in the smart home sector are topics in this VDE dialog.    Other topics in this issue:  ▶️ European standardization: (Not) a step backwards ▶️ Research: Fast track to the real world ▶️ To-do list for the German federal government ▶️ Debate: First boom, now bust? It's worth reading 😊.   ➡️ Join the VDE dialog now: https://dialog.vde.com/en  ➡️ To the complete e-paper (registration required): https://lnkd.in/ey-anwvv #vdedialog #smarthome #innovation #climateprotection #vde

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German cities become more and more sustainable compared to other global cities, and so achieve a great rank in our latest #sustainablecitiesindex 2024

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I would like to share a few insights into one of our ongoing projects at Institut für Hochbau, Holzbau und kreislaufgerechtes Bauen (IHB), BOKU University , presented by the head of our institute Benjamin Kromoser on YouTube by "DIE FESTMACHER" (by fischer group). Discover how theory can be translated into practice, contributing to environmental protection. The project demonstrates that smart construction processes, the use of available resources and the use of sustainable materials can effectively reduce ecological footprints. 🎥 Watch the full video to learn more about our research!

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