Cohabitat Gathering
I will be speaking at the Cohabitat Gathering, a natural building conference in Poland on April 1, 2011. You can read the program here.
Open Source Micro-Factory
This post in other languages: Deutsch * Español * Português Imagine if you could build cars, industrial robots, engines, and other things in your own back yard. The only problem is, these require billions of dollars of infrastructure in the current...
Scaling Development
We’re now moving onto the next phase of GVCS development, beyond the work at Factor e Farm to a global collaboration of remote prototyping work funded by crowd sources and resource development via the nonprofit sector. We are collecting bids from...
Isaiah Saxon: OSE Media Director
After an extended winter sabbatical in California, I am back at home at Factor e Farm to continue on-the-ground development of the Global Village Construction Set. Factor e Farm is the place where this development has happened for the last 4 years, and...
Interview with TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski | Case Foundation
Click here for video interview with TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski | Case Foundation. And here’s a report upon returning to California, with plans for returning to Factor e Farm. Pardon the skewed perspective.
TED Day 4
That’s Salman of the Khan Academy speaking on the left. Camille (in the rightmost picture) is a TED Fellow and polar photographer, shown with Al. The Global Village Construction Set was mentioned in Inc. Magazine as one of the start-ups bubbling...
TED Day 2
Meet some of the TED Fellows 2011. These are pictures from some of our talks: I met Lesa from Kauffman Foundation. She told me that Kauffman Foundation is interested in DIY, relocalization, and bringing production back to America. They are in Kansas City...
TED: The Day After
It is my second day as a TED Fellow at the TED Conference – and it is the day after my talk. It went very well, and it was well received. It will go online as soon as it’s processed by the TED media people. So far I have seen an amazing opportunity...
Approaching the TED Conference
The TED Conference is coming up in a week in Long Beach, California. As one of the TED Fellows selected from around the globe for presenting ideas worth spreading – I’ll be speaking about the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) on Feb....
4 Years of Factor e Farm
Factor e Farm, our land-based facility for Global Village Construction Set development, has now been alive for 4 years. We encountered the place as an empty soybean field abused by commercial agriculture. This video shows in 4 minutes what has happened...
