Jay Cousins is co-founder of the Open Design City at betahaus Berlin and co-creator of the Makerlab festival format and specialist in collaborative processes and practices. He is passionate about Open Design, creating new and alternative structures and cultures and interested in social technology, human interaction, technology trends, product hacking, disrupting technologies and systems.

The motivation behind his work is to develop technologies that socialise, educate and transform the collective and individual consciousness and empower to change the world – a process he supports as connector, social hacker, catalyst, moderator or redundancy designer.