Wolf Jeschonnek
Engineering and Maker Movement
... is a shareholder and managing director of Makea Industries GmbH and head of the research and development department of the Ottobock Future Lab. His main area of expertise is rapid prototyping and digital fabrication, where he has more than 5 years of experience - as a founder and manager and as a practical designer and lecturer at the Weissensee Academy of Art. In 2012, he spent several months in various hacker spaces, tech shops and fab labs in the USA and Europe to learn about their business models, work processes and educational approaches. He then founded Fab Lab Berlin, to which he contributed his knowledge of digital production methods and best practices.
Before and during his studies in Berlin, Wolf was a member of the German national sailing team and has always been a passionate maker: He began his regatta career with a self-built Contender racing dinghy.
