Team members’ rationale.
A sustainable plan should include the basic needs of ALL inhabitants, including the focus on ecological quality and growth. Therefore, the relocation plan has to pay attention to the development that takes into account social inclusion, health, climate changes, energy, ecosystem processes, natural resources, etc.
Cities are surrounded by settlements, farmland and nature. In Polyhedra Labs we surround of forward-looking people.
Holger and Rodrigo have more than a decade each in conceptualizing and realizing socially engaged projects that now are crystalizing in eSMART.
Marco, as a medical doctor with summa cum laude soon realized that more than a “healthy body“ is responsible for daily motivation the creation of this well-being feeling.
As a team, they are setting up a fertile ground for more inclusive farming accessibility in Berlin / Potsdam and their surroundings.
Holger Meier
He studied Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences of Technology and Economics in Dresden with research stays in Brazil and Hungary. Holger has over 15 years of experience in project management and implementation for public and private clients in Germany and abroad and since 2012 he has his own office. During his career, he focused on environmental project management and implementation planning, execution planning, fire protection, site management for clients in the public sector as well as private (Universities, schools, sports facilities, Office buildings, museum, spa hotel, etc.). He is an experienced user of CAD, VOB, AHO, HOAI among others and speaks five European languages.
Holger is passionate about environmental sustainability and Green buildings (green architecture). Currently, he is specialising in bio-architecture to reduce environmental impact and indoor pollution.
MARCO GIANNECCHINI
Former competitive athlete, neuroscientist, best-selling author and leading expert in neuroscience as FLOW (being the “psychology of the optimal experience”) and neuro-marketing Marco Giannecchini is a very well-known transformational coach. The awards-winning keynote speaker and event manager holds more than 100 lectures/year and is one of the most sought-after speakers and consultants for FLOW in German, Italian and English-speaking countries. He also offers tailor-made seminars for more FLOW in professional and private life, lectures at several universities and is a welcome guest in TV talk shows.
He believes the human species is capable of extraordinary things. More than any other known species, he believes that we have a breathtaking ability to grow, create, explore, love, and solve challenges. The key to awakening this potential is UNITY. We need to come together -which is in fact our natural state. Yet instead of uniting us, many of the systems, institutions, and beliefs governing the world today are dividing us.
He believes that the solution to that world lies in raising human consciousness. Which means evolving the way people learn, grow, work, and co-create. Inspired by Mandela’s quote, “If you want to change the world, change education” he set out to start a new type of education company, one focused on unifying the world and teaching transformational education – the things that truly matter for the human race: the FLOW CONSCIOUSNESS ACADEMY.
Rodrigo Perez Garcia
He is a chemist interested in tangential points of the arts and science, especially within Nanotechnology & Renewable Energy, Interfacial phenomena, Music, Art and Literature. He holds an Erasmus Mundus Masters in Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling (The Netherlands -and Italy) and a PhD in Chemistry from the TU-Berlin. Throughout his life has conducted research residencies in Bristol (UK), Ispra (Italy) and Kyoto (Japan). After working at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces (Germany), Rodrigo followed his passion to facilitate access to healthier and more sustainable food production. As co-founder of Polyhedra (www.polyhedra.eu) and Polyhedra Labs, Rodrigo coordinates and implements multi-disciplinary projects, catalysing connections between local realities and global cultures.
He is convinced that a more equitable world is possible. Let’s harvest the power of community movements and grassroots innovation for cities providing a multi-disciplinary approach to the challenges in food, waste and water.