Spring 2012

Hi there dear people!

After our inspiring sunny summer in Portugal last year, we dived into the tranquillity of the Berlin winter. In that spacious city we enjoyed a lot of essential meetings with people who became lovely friends. The Berlin culture showed us a free and low-key creativity which made us more open to our capabilities. 

Rick hugging the city. Berlin is so spacious!

In Berlin we incorporated all our experiences and findings from Portugal and we took a good look at all the designs from the past years. Out of all this gathered knowledge and experience we saw that the potential of these older creations were not yet fully explored. And idea after idea bubbled up as the cross pollination went on.

Next to the six already existing designs, three more fantastic new designs came out. And now we have nine beautiful solar ovens on the drawing board, still crystallising. We are playfully investing the possibilities and we are experiencing so much enjoyment in this. We trust that integration will manifest while going with the flow of the season. Because in this time of the year all seeds are bursting out of the ground and nothing is set yet. Everything is still emerging and so do we.

The applications of these different ovens are so varied that we have decided to name them as light catchers. It is still too early to expand on these new designs now. But what we can say is; that the newest light catchers are much more effective; don’t weight so much; are mobile; easy to handle; and are more affordable. We couldn’t be more cheerful about this : ) and it makes us jumpy to go outside again!

After more then two months in Berlin we have found a nice place in Amsterdam again. And for the coming period we will be working there on defining our course for the next spring and summer.