When Nike bought over the popular cult brand Chucks from Converse ten years ago, they relocated production from the USA to low-wage countries. Since then, there have been repeated scandals about serious deficits and human rights violations. A few hundred Chucks fans were unwilling to take this situation any longer and started producing Chucks themselves using fair trade networks. Le-Mentzel will talk about Crowducing, a new form of production and about opportunities and difficulties when designing supply and value creation chains with good karma.
Van Bo Le-Mentzel
Architect and inventor of the One-Sqm-House, furniture for people “on the dole” and editor/publisher of the book “Hartz IV Möbel” (2012, Hatje Cantz). Initiator of Karma Chakhs – a new form of mass production.
