One of Hacking Work's 100 Disruptive Heroes: Marcin Jakubowski is Founding Director of Open Source Ecology (OSE). Marcin and OCE are building the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS): A set of the 50 most important machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts. Think of the GVCS as a Lego set for life-sized tools that are able to create infrastructures. See simplerwork.com for his full bio and more.
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Marcin Jakubowski, the owner of a small farm in northwestern Missouri, is an agrarian romantic for high-tech times. 
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This is a 5 day MicroHouse Extreme Manufacturing (XM) workshop- led by Marcin Jakubowski – intended for innovators and entrepreneurs who are interested in exploring the limits of XM for rapid building of environmentally friendly homes. Blending Compressed Earth Block construction with modular roof panels as our contract-first design, our goal is to demonstrate that quality housing can be built with multi-purpose flexibility using module-based designs and parallel building for optimizing design evolution. Our goal is reducing the duration of construction by a factor of 20 compared to industry standards, at ⅓ the cost of conventional housing. Our XM design process involves a rapid parallel swarm workflow with 48 people using simple-to-follow documentation created with Agile and Waterfall methods prior to build. The MicroHouse XM 4 design is built on the experience of the last 3 iterations to produce the most ambitious – level of completion – build of a 762 sf home using test-driven open source techniques and equipment. If you are interested in natural home building or extreme efficiency of effort towards manufacturing, you will learn first hand how to take your home or project to the next level of ownership. Workshop includes 4 days of hands-on immersive building, nightly lectures, and a full day for review, discussion, and exploration of entrepreneurship opportunities. Our concept is consistent with open source economics and social production.
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The Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) is a modular, DIY, low-cost, high-performance platform that enables fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. See a working list of GVCS machines and their breakdown into modules - GVCS Machines and Modules. The name, GVCS, has been coined for the first time in 2008 - at a lecture at the University of Missouri, Columbia - see UM Presentation.
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TED Senior Fellow Marcin Jakubowski, a Princeton-trained physicist-turned-farmer, is using the power of the DIY movement to create a free, open-source “starter kit for civilization.” Jakubowski directs the Open Source Ecology initiative, which aims to develop a set of easy-to-follow, open source blueprints for the 50 machines most essential for modern life. The 50 machines comprise the Global Village Construction Set: a “lifesize, scalable, modular LEGO construction set” for building modern life, and include an automobile, an induction furnace, and a bakery oven.
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Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch.
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A Polish-born nuclear physicist and his small band of acolytes are holed up in Missouri farm country, working on a "civilization starter kit." Is this the future of American innovation?
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Missouri, USA - An early demonstration of the open collaborative model to developing technology, writes social inventor Marcin Jakubowski, was the Cornish steam engine. Boulton & Watt's was too costly for the tin miners and anyway the patent prevented them from adapting the design to their specific needs. So Trevithick and Woolf created a new unpatented design, free to the tin miners, who collaboratively developed and improved it. As a result, Trevithick and Woolf steam engine became the industry's standard for more than 30 years.
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A modern, comfortable lifestyle relies on a variety of efficient Industrial Machines. If you eat bread, you rely on an Agricultural Combine. If you live in a wood house, you rely on a Sawmill. Each of these machines relies on other machines in order for it to exist. If you distill this complex web of interdependent machines into a reproduceable, simple, closed-loop system, you get 50 base industrial machines. For a concise presentation go here. The Global Village Construction Set(GVCS) is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.
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Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch.
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Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch.
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I love this man’s can-do, DIY spirit. HIs energy. His drive and determination, no matter what. We need more like him. Unfortunately, so few people today grow up in conditions that allow and encourage them to “do what it takes” — to work, HARD, and imaginatively, building skill-sets in all sorts of unpromising situations, with often, little to show for it, except a lot of experience in what can, and does, go wrong. I’m reminded of the movie “All Is Lost,” which I admired extravagently — until the Hollywood ending.
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Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a 501(c) (3) organization that seeks to empower millions of people around the world by creating all the machinery and systems required to build a society from the ground up, while putting the costs within reach of the average person. In most cases, the costs of OSE’s machines are about 20% of similar machinery that is currently available off-shelf. Unlike the equipment available on the market today, the OSE machines are designed and built for a lifetime, by using commonly available parts, which may also be produced locally using the GVCS fabrication machinery.
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This is a first installment in a new series of articles where I will be reviewing innovative companies—organizations—and ideas that have the potential to reshape our future in a positive way. I will not be reviewing these organizations from a valuation basis, but rather from a conceptual one, and potential impact they can have on our daily lives.
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Marcin Jakubowski - Key Note Speaker at the Energy Fair hosted by The Midstate Renewable Energy Association - speaks about Open Source Ecology.
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Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an open collaborative of engineers, producers, and builders developing the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS is a set of 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker. Marcin is producing open source blueprints – so that anyone can build and maintain machines at a fraction of what it costs today. His goal is to create a life size LEGO set of powerful, self-replicating production tools – that can decentralize production – to build modern prosperity in local economies. He imagines the raw power this gives to people – to tap autonomy, mastery, and purpose – towards rebuilding their communities and solving wicked problems. Marcin believes that true freedom – the most essential type of freedom – starts with peoples’ individual ability to use natural resources to free themselves from material constraints – to unleash human potential.
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Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch.
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Open Source Ecology is a non-profit organization with the goal of designing 50 industrial machines that it takes to build a small, sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The idea is that true economic power can be unleashed in developing countries when they gain access to the CAD files, how-to videos and other engineering specs required to make tools to build civilizations. You see, most tools can be made from natural resources that everyone has access to. But due to the proprietary nature of most advanced technologies, in the form of patents and trade secrets, companies have introduced this notion of artificial scarcity.
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Marcin Jakubowski speaks with Joanna Harcourt-Smith of Future Primitive (www.futureprimitive.org). Marcin came to the U.S. from Poland as a child. He graduated with honors from Princeton and earned his PhD in fusion physics from the University of Wisconsin before shifting direction and starting a hydroponic vegetable farm in Madison, WI. Lacking real experience in practical matters, he then began his education from scratch, and in 2003 he founded Open Source Ecology in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS), an open source DIY tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create modern civilization from scrap metal. OSE has prototyped 8 machines and intends to build everything from an induction furnace for melting metals to an open source combine.
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This is the core of Open Source Ecology's work on the Global Village Construction Set. Scenes in the video from hay baling onwards are the developments taking place at Factor e Farm in Missouri, USA. This is part of going the last mile on the construction toolkit part of the Global Village construction set.
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During the last few days of September and the first week of October we will be constructing a prototype house, using prototype machines, and using a prototype process: swarming construction. Numerous volunteers, with various skill levels, will be refining a method of parallel processing to construct modular components of a house that can be quickly assembled to create a beautiful, durable, and sustainable dwelling for a couple: the Microhouse.
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