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|description = The Architectural Lead and Construction Manager develops low cost, open source, high performance building technologies and prototypes - both machines and structures. Chris is responsible for R&D, buildout, and organization of workshops and other public events. | |description = The Architectural Lead and Construction Manager develops low cost, open source, high performance building technologies and prototypes - both machines and structures. Chris is responsible for R&D, buildout, and organization of workshops and other public events. | ||
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Christopher Reinhart left college as a young undergraduate in 1999 to pursue a simpler life, closer to nature, and to seek truth and beauty. After working professionally in the building industry for over a decade and building his own home of earth, straw, timber, and salvage, he returned to school to study architecture formally and earned his undergraduate architecture degree from Ball State in 2013. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including four Pinnacles of Excellence awards from the Indiana Architectural Foundation, the AIA Henry Adams Certificate, and the CAP Best and Brightest Award. In 2009 he was selected as a Byron Fellow for sustainable community development, and in 2012 he was chosen to be a Udall Scholar, the nation's top honor for undergraduate environmental leaders. He lives near Bloomington, Indiana, on a developing permaculture farmstead. | |||
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| About Open Source Ecology |
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Executive Director
A Polish-American who is starting a new civilization -- from scratch -- in the Midwestern US. 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. Frustrated with the lack of relevance to pressing world issues in his education, he founded Open Source Ecology in 2003 in order to make closed-loop manufacturing a reality. He began development on the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) (see his 2011 TED Talk), an open source do-it-yourself (DIY) tool set of 50 different industrial machines necessary to create a small civilization with modern comforts.
His work has recently been recognized in his acceptance as a 2012 TED Senior Fellow, a 2012 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and his TED Talk was named the top 6th in the Huffington Post Best of TED 2011. His goal is to create the open source economy - an economy that optimizes both production and distribution - while providing environmental regeneration and social justice. To this end, Marcin is currently building a team of global collaborators and on-site builders for a land-based facility - to take this from concept to reality. He believes that the open source economy is a prerequisite to autonomy that allows people to pursue mastery - consistent with a higher purpose.
Operations Manager
Responsible for managing a full range of Open Source Ecology operations - design, fabrication, testing, pilot projects, documentation, production runs, special events, construction, communications, fundraising, office operations, and facility maintenance and upgrades. The Operations Manager also the point of contact for media relations and fundraising initiatives.
Technical Community Manager
The Technical Community Manager is responsible for talent search and volunteer placement and management. In addition, the TCM manages product development and human resource allocation.
Documentation Manager
The Documentation Manager leads development of graphic representations and video instructionals for the Global Village Construction Set as well as production of documentary videos of major OSE events and milestones.
Architectural Lead and Construction Manager
The Architectural Lead and Construction Manager develops low cost, open source, high performance building technologies and prototypes - both machines and structures. Chris is responsible for R&D, buildout, and organization of workshops and other public events.
Christopher Reinhart left college as a young undergraduate in 1999 to pursue a simpler life, closer to nature, and to seek truth and beauty. After working professionally in the building industry for over a decade and building his own home of earth, straw, timber, and salvage, he returned to school to study architecture formally and earned his undergraduate architecture degree from Ball State in 2013. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including four Pinnacles of Excellence awards from the Indiana Architectural Foundation, the AIA Henry Adams Certificate, and the CAP Best and Brightest Award. In 2009 he was selected as a Byron Fellow for sustainable community development, and in 2012 he was chosen to be a Udall Scholar, the nation's top honor for undergraduate environmental leaders. He lives near Bloomington, Indiana, on a developing permaculture farmstead.
Information Technology
The IT team manages our web sites and supports online operations.
Volunteers
Open Source Ecology is fortunate to attract volunteers from all over the world.
FeF Volunteers
July - September, 2012
These are previous contributors who lived and worked at Factor e Farm.
- Thad Getterman
- Brianna Kufa
- Jacob Dalton
- Gabrielle Leblanc
- Aidan Williamson
- Jose Bravo
- Yoonseo Kang
- Parker Bonnell
- Tristan Copley Smith
- Graham Robertson
- Shonda Baker
- Darren Vandervort
- Ted Mosher
- Alexander Briggs
- James Wise
- Mike Apostol
- Matt Schwabauer