Dejan Despotović

Which three adjectives would your friends use to describe you?
Authentic, never tired, and too loud.

In what way do you enrich the lives of ­people in the neighbourhood through your work?
I try to convince people to get active themselves and meet up with real persons – instead of spending all their time in front of the TV and on social media.

What does an evening at home with your best friends look like, and what do you talk about?
There’s a bottle of wine on the table from our last trip together. We talk about the things we’ve shared in the past – not just rowing, but also dancing and cross-country skiing. And, of course, we start planning our next adventures.

If I could change one thing in my neighbourhood, I would …
… make it compulsory to undertake something small with a neighbour every day and improve something in the neighbourhood.