Eva Hotz

Mantis Green Technology, Germany

Eva Hotz

Mantis Green Technology, Germany

Biography

Eva is a selfemployed product designer working on ecological concepts in experiments, but always focused on User Experience. She studied at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach and Kunsthochschule Weißensee, Berlin, where she is currently working as a lecturer in folding techniques. She believes that modern sustainable products have to combine smart technology and desirable application to beware a natural relation between humans and their environment
for a modern Sustainability.
Srijna is a doctorate student from Nepal, currently working at the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Landscape Research, within the project “Innovating Strategies to safeguard Food Security using Technology and Knowledge Transfer: A people-centred Approach”. She previously studied Physics at Bard College, NY and then went on to complete a masters’ in Natural Resource Management at Humboldt University, Berlin. She believes that her pursuit of a vocation in Environmental.


SOLA

The concept of the project SOLA is based on the idea to personalize the alternative energy production. As a result, the compact 800g lightweight modular system combines an easy application and a maximum energy yield in an individual frame. The designed product is a mobile system solution that best accommodates solar energy with a foldable solar fabric, saves them in a removable battery and can purify water with the aid of artificial UV radiation to safe drinking water.