Marcin Jakubowski

Change Agent, Designer, Doctor, Engineer, Industrialist, Philanthropist, Scientist, Social entrepreneur, Technologist

Marcin Jakubowski is the founder of Open Source Ecology, an organization dedicated to developing open source industrial machines through projects like the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). The GVCS encompasses 50 essential machines for establishing a sustainable civilization. Marcin leads the team in fostering open collaboration and sharing designs online for free to promote innovation and create an open source economy. Through initiatives like the Seed Eco-Home, MicroHouse, electric motor/generator, Microcombine, and 50 kW Wind Turbine, Marcin and his team aim to accelerate innovation and transform the economic system towards collaborative development. Their work is rooted in the belief that material abundance is achievable through a shift in mindset from fear and scarcity to one of abundance, ultimately striving to educate society on living in a post-scarcity economy.

Distributive Economics and open enterprises - or open source economic development and decentralized production. See - http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Distributive_Enterprise

Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing and can be seen as a life-size lego-like set of modular tools that can create entire economies, whether in rural Missouri, where the project was founded, the mountains of Oregon, or in the heart of Africa.

Civilization engineering, Design, Economic growth, Education, Fusion energy, Industrial metals, Manufacturing, Open access, Open collaboration, Regenerative technologies, Social justice, Technology, Wind turbines

People can create their own worlds in video games, online virtual reality, or Lego blocks. What if we had the same power in terms of creating our own physical realities? Then we could create our means of survival: comfortable habitats beyond resource scarcity - where we can then focus on our true passions and interests. To this end, we're developing the Global Village Construction Set - a construction set for relocalizing production to generate true wealth and meaning - by the use of modern but appropriate technology. By open-sourcing critical pieces of infrastructure-creation, such as solar energy production or conversion of rocks to aluminum or soil to food - we can master our ability to survive. Is this possible on a small scale? We are beginning to demonstrate that this can be done on the scale of villages - which thus become totally self-determining, and where people can begin to pursue their most creative endeavors - beyond artificial scarcity of the Matrix.

unicycling, drawing, boundary-crossing, iconoclastic approaches, meditation, focusing