Innovation workshops · Design education

Learning to forget
what we know.

Hands-on workshops for senior professionals, executive programmes, and design schools built on 25 years of product design and 10+ years running the adidas Makerlab. No slides. No frameworks. Just a bag of objects, fresh eyes, and a completely different way of seeing.

25
Years designing products
10+
Years directing the Makerlab

"Complicare e facile,
semplificare e difficile."

Bruno Munari

To complicate is easy.
To simplify is hard.

8+
Design schools
collaborated with
3
Languages:
EN · ES · DE
6+
Countries across
Europe
20+
Years at
adidas

About

Practitioner knowledge.
Not academic theory.

Hack Yourself is a workshop and education practice built on 20 years designing product at adidas and a decade running one of the most hands-on innovation spaces inside a global brand, the adidas Makerlab network.

The work is rooted in Bruno Munari's philosophy. Not just simplicity as a tool, but the belief that design should be experienced, not observed. Munari saw creativity as vital as literacy, something learned through exploration, experimentation, and interaction with the world. His approach was interdisciplinary, hands-on, and deeply human. Making before knowing. Asking better questions instead of solving the wrong problem faster.

Since 2017, I have collaborated with design schools and universities across Europe connecting industry reality with academic creativity.

Director, adidas Makerlab Network
Nuremberg, Germany · 2017 – present
Senior Designer, adidas Originals and Performance
Footwear, Accessories and Hardware · 2004 – 2017
Master in Design, Domus Academy
Milan, Italy · 2002
Workshops in English, Spanish and German
Available across Europe · in-person and hybrid
Jordi Closa Guerrero

Jordi Closa Guerrero

What I offer

Three workshops.
One way of thinking.

Each session is fully hands-on. Participants work with real objects and their own real challenges, not case studies. The goal is never to teach a method. It is to change how you see.

All workshops are available as standalone sessions or as part of a hybrid programme with structured online follow-up.

01
The Stranger's Eye

A half-day session that rewires how participants observe. Using everyday objects, teams practice the art of asking questions nobody else is asking and finding answers hiding in plain sight.

"What if the solution was already in front of you and you were just looking at it wrong?"

Half day · Any team
02
The Wrong Object

A full-day workshop on problem reframing. Teams receive broken or obsolete objects and must redesign them as solutions to real challenges in their organisation. The constraint is the point.

"The most creative solutions rarely come from the most obvious starting point."

Full day · Up to 20
03
Prototype in 90'

Teams build a physical prototype of a real business idea using only materials from a bag. No screens. No preparation. Validate before investing and prove that making is faster than thinking.

"90 minutes to build something real is more valuable than 90 days of slides."

Half day · Executive

Collaborations

Where the work
has happened.

Since 2017, I have collaborated with design schools and universities across Europe as guest lecturer, mentor, and sprint facilitator, connecting students with real industry challenges and professionals with creative thinking tools.

Elisava
University for Design and Engineering · Barcelona
Product and Interaction Design, THUM programme
2019 – 2024 · 5 editions
ECA
Edinburgh College of Arts
Fashion Design Mentorship and Sprint Week
2025 – 2026 · 2 editions
UDIT
University of Design, Innovation and Technology · Madrid
Guest Lecturer and Mentorship semester
2023 – 2025
EKA
Estonian Academy of Arts · Tallinn
Accessories Degree Mentorship and Sprint Week
2024
DSKD
Kolding School of Design · Denmark
Accessories Degree Mentorship and Sprint Week
2026
SUPSI
University of Applied Sciences · Switzerland
Master in Interaction Design
2023

Format

Hybrid
by design.

Each engagement combines intensive in-person sessions with structured online follow-up. The work continues long after the workshop ends.

Available for executive programmes, university modules, corporate innovation sprints, and custom formats. Delivered in English, Spanish, or German.

1

In-person intensive

1 to 2 days on-site. Hands-on, physical, high energy. No preparation needed from participants.

2

Online check-in sessions

30 to 45 min focused sessions every 2 to 3 weeks. Structured conversations around real progress.

3

1-to-1 follow-up

Optional individual sessions for participants who want to go deeper on a specific challenge.

4

3 languages · all Europe

English, Spanish or German. Based in Nuremberg, regular presence in Madrid and Segovia.

Contact

Let's talk about
your programme.

Whether you are planning an executive module, a design school collaboration, or a one-off innovation sprint, get in touch and we will figure out the right format together.

Email
jordi [at] hack-yourself.es
Based in
Nuremberg, DE · available across Europe
Currently
Director, adidas Makerlab Network