Dipl.-Ing. Thorsten Försterling

Innovation Manager

Dipl.-Ing., Born in 1966, is innovation manager in Bielefeld-Sennestadt and city In 2007 he was co-founder of alberts.architekten BdA – Office for Social Tailured Architecture, 2014 – 2018 he was „Sanierungsmanager (KfW-432)“‘ of the climate district Sennestadt. Furthermore he is busy with mobility projects. Since the beginning of 2019 he is engaged in city developing in Horn, a medieval city close to the Externsteine. He is also busy with village development: For the project Jugend unter Dampf in Lippischer Extertal, he received the Culture Prize of the German economy. In 2017 he developed the magazine “Ort und Stelle – Osterwald taucht auf”. Now he has been awarded the German Mobility Award for the innovation “MonoCab”, gyroscopically stabilized monocaps on Rural Railways.