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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Mobility Experience Designer, Design Thinking Facilitator
  • Transportation Design; Design Thinking
  • From Lüneburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Experience, Refine, Create

ABOUT ME

Comprehensivist

PHILOSOPHY

It's not what you do, it's how you do it

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

used it scarcely but in a pleasant way until now as a guest, now also hosting :-)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

Design (Aesthetics, Creativity, Technology, Sociology, Systems Thinking), Music, Literature, Philosophy, Sex, Love, Friendship, all the good stuff

  • arts
  • literature
  • design
  • sketching
  • music

Music, Movies, and Books

All time favorite music : Houston, TX Hip Hop

apart from that, anything made with love, be it expressed in melody, rhythm, lyrics, or some other way..

Books:

Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist
Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich
George Orwell - 1984

is what I can think of off the top of my head...

and anything by my man Buckminster Fuller or OSHO

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

snuck into conference room on the top floor of one of the tallest skyscrapers in Frankfurt to sleep when I didn't have a place to stay, freight hopping in Florida/Alabama

What I Can Share with Hosts

Knowledge, Curiosity, Warmth

More concrete: Sketching, design theory, conceptual thinking, problem solving

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom, United States

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