Partners of Laka.

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Acceleration Partners:

The Katerva network brings together CEOs, heads of state, ministers and policymakers, experts and academics, international organizations, youth, technology innovators and representatives of civil society in an impartial space with the aim of driving positive change. With a rigorous review process involving 500+ professionals coupled with a powerful set of data science filters, Katerva is considered by many to be the most comprehensive awards program in the world.

Peace and Collaborative Development Network (PCDN) is the go-to hub for the global change making community. PCDN is a rapidly growing social enterprise that gathers over 35,500 professionals, organizations and students engaged in social change, peacebuilding, social entrepreneurship, development and related fields. Members can stay informed of countless opportunities such as events, jobs, funding, fellowships and relevant news and publications.

TEL is dedicated to bringing communities out of poverty by driving the adoption of innovative, cost-effective and sustainable solutions that improve lives at the bottom of the pyramid. TEL hosts a crowdsourced database of over 600 innovations. Through their Project Accelerator service, TEL helps NGOs and communities leverage appropriate technology solutions to maximize the impact of last-mile development.

The Innovation Leadership Forum (ILF) is a visionary and original Think & Do Tank set up by Dr Bettina von Stamm in 2004, dedicated to helping organisations understand and improve their innovation performance.  It does so through a number of different avenues such as a Networking Group, a series of MasterClasses, Advisory & Coaching Services, Workshops, Presentations, Public Speaking, and the Innovation Wave®, a tool for the facilitated assessment of innovation capabilities.

Fundación Organizmo Design Build Centre of Sustainable Habitats is focused on community empowerment through local knowledge and resources. Organizmo develops educational models around green building techniques and alternative technologies. Organizmo develops more than 30 workshops a year aiming to empower community leaders who can be multipliers of these techniques and technologies having an impact in rural areas.

Laka Perspectives:

Solarlux is a German manufacturer of Bi-folding Glass Doors, Wintergardens and Façade solutions. The Bissendorf company, its individual glazing solutions and innovative design possibilities are a worldwide success. Solarlux wants to convince the world of the merits of greater transparency, lightness and vitality, and influence architecture the world over with its exclusive glazing solutions.

Ultrabrand is a company founded by Bartłomiej Witkowski (designer of Laka Perspectives book) and Mariusz Gruszka. Ultrabrand is specialized in corporate identity, photography, logos, internet design, printed materials design, information systems design, interface design and more.

A company based in Gdańsk (Poland), specialized in visualizations, architectural concepts, animations, virtual reality and 3D models. Founded by Alek Pluta (author of the visualizations of Laka Perspectives book).

An architectural company led by Dr. Peter Kuczia (educator and expert in ecological constructions with more than 20 years of experience). The company has been awarded the international prizes e.g. 1st prize of Polish GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL for ZERO-ENERGY Research and Educational Complex Wroclaw University of Technology and National nomination – MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD for European Architecture.

Outreach Partners:

The Land Art Generator Initiative is an international initiative activating interdisciplinary teams to conceive of large-scale public artworks for specific sites that artfully provide utility-scale clean energy to the city grid. The project combines renewable infrastructure design with international cultural exchange and community educational outreach. The project has been featured in articles in numerous international press outlets, including The New York Times, Huffington Post, the Guardian, and Dwell magazine.

The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is BFI’s flagship program, offering an annual $100,000 prize to support the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.

LabDigiFab is an organization working at Wroclaw University of Technology with current research areas: GeneticLab, Architectural Design Optimization, Bionic in Architecture, Video Mapping, Digital Fabrication. LabDigiFab creates projects on the border between art and technology and hosts an International Conference of Computational Design “Shapes of Logic”.

Research Partners:

rat[LAB] – Research in Architecture & Technology, is an independent research organization and network of designers & researchers specializing in computational design or similar technology-related domains. Operated as a cloud-based organization with an international network of researchers & computational designers spread across UK, USA, Europe & Asia, and a studio in New Delhi, India, the research cell functions as a global collaborative and multidisciplinary laboratory facilitating design research that leads to novel spatial tectonics and smart built environments. For more information: www.rat-lab.org