the village kit 🏡☀️

hi folx, here is a placeholder for my next focus (and associated social enterprise): villagekit.com 😻

the underlying concepts are nothing new, see here or here. 🌱

in short, i want to bring #opensource to the #tinyhome movement, culminating in a comprehensive blueprint for how to start and run a solarpunk trailer park. ✨

said another way, i want to experiment with using specific top-down constraints to better support bottom-up micro-utopias. ❗

as a rough outline:

• support the general movement with specific prototypes
• support well-engineered, modular, interoperable, and re-usable construction systems
  • as a trade-off with bespoke upcycling that is not modular, interoperable, or re-usable
  • for example: Grid Beam, structural pipe fittings, T-Slot
• use code-based CAD where possible
  • for example: OpenSCAD or OpenJSCAD
• enable open sharing of fractal (macro and micro) designs
  • such as a package manager (e.g. npm) for physcial modules
• accumulating re-usable construction materials should be a viable economic savings strategy
• less unconstrained macro-utopias (as they continue to fail), more constrained pragmatic business plans and clear boundaries to support micro-utopias
  • for example: an #ecovillage requires too much upfront privilege, the whole system is dependent on self-actualizing visions, and there are unmitigated risk when conflicts inevitably arise
  • another example: the Burning Man org (and regional burn orgs) is actually authoritarian, but the authority is very limited in scope (e.g. where you are allowed to camp), which enables each camp to be their own anarchist micro-utopia

similar to Open Source Ecology, but with hopefully less ego. [1] [2]

am in the early stages, currently looking for business partners with skills in manufacturing, architecture, construction, or entrepreneurship.

am waiting another ~6 months before i commit full-time, out of respect for my current employer. ❤️

#villagekit #gridbeam #diy #openhardware #openfurniture #pattern-language #manufacturing

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I like this soooo much that I am considering creating a new profile in SSB just to like it more times!

Awesome initiative. You could also include permaculture or hydroponics, I'd love to help with blueprints and manuals for the latter one, once I get into it.

Ohh wow this is so great. I also +1 on permaculture and hydroponics!!

@dinoƧ𝔸Ⓤᖇ I'm assuming that you know about Open Source Ecology? on the off chance that you don't tho!

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

ignore that ^ :) Powersource clued me in that you mentioned it in the post, that I barely read to the bottom of in my excitement

Hey @dinoƧ𝔸Ⓤᖇ i was wondering if there has been progress on this? I came across Tiny Tranquility which is on the southern coast of washington state in the US. Felt a model of having some tiny homes in the village might be a way of helping recover costs and have a collective revenue stream for the community.