What does it mean to start up socially or green? How does a Sustainable Business Model Canvas differ from a normal one? What are the success stories of social start-ups?
Portfolio Category: Lectures
Sustainability in product development
A seminar on environmental and social issues in product development for design students. Best practices, existing concepts, unusual inspirations and also the trade-offs that need to be made with every design decision.
Opportunities of technology for sustainability
A mixture of storytelling and lecture. How can 3D printing and AI-based generative design save resources? What does it mean when all goods become trackable? And is the elimination of jobs an opportunity for a new, decelerated society or the opposite?
Regenerate resources instead of just avoiding damage!
The Planetary Boundaries model shows us that we have unbalanced systems. Doing no harm means remaining in imbalance. We must actively regenerate resources! But how?
Sustainability as an opportunity for regional development
When an entire region is facing structural change, how can sustainability help? How can companies use it to develop a new business case? How can existing structures be utilised?
Poetry slam on real sustainability innovations
What we call technical revolutions today are in fact incremental changes. Revolution can mean giving our products new meaning! How does that work? Where does it come from and how do you find the strength to realise it?
Social entrepreneurship - introduction and experiences
An open afternoon to explain the basics of social business, the differences to conventional business and to understand the boundaries in the system. Experience reports and concepts and how they complement each other.
Sustainability through creative entrepreneurship
A tribute to the power of creativity. To the analogies between artists and entrepreneurs. To the potential of creative impermanence and ideas for impermanent sustainability.
Sustainability in SMEs
How can small and medium-sized companies also successfully implement sustainability? How does sustainability pay off through potential savings and the development of new markets?
Sustainability management in practice
Experts from science and business will discuss and learn how sustainability management can be practised effectively. Where do systems and structures make a difference and where does corporate culture?