Jonathan Minchin

Team Culturing Information

last updated: 7. October, 2011

WHO are you?

• Name - Jonathan Minchin

• Location (city, country) - Barcelona, Spain

• Contact Information (email, phone, Skype) - Jonminchin (at) gmail (dot) com, +34 633417217, Skype: Jonminchin

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• Resume/CV -

• Hobbies and Pastimes - Besides my Academic and Working career as an Architect and designer, I enjoy the outdoors very much. I have have volunteered on projects in South Africa, Central America, and spent half a year in Cuba.I am a Kung Fu instructor and play the drums for groups from time to time.

WHY are you motivated to support/develop this work?

• Do you endorse open source culture?

Although I feel that the phenomenon is not entirely new and that creativity as a general evolution has encompassed collective production, the online medium opens opportunities for all user-innovators more equitably. It is clear that this challenges the traditional mode of production and industry, but as a facilitator of freedoms and capabilities source culture should be protected and valued. I have endorsed my views in the publication "Reflections on Development".

• Why are you interested in collaborating with us?

I have a strong impetus to collaborate with OSE and to work through the phases of constructing the GVCS. I am working on other architectural and development projects that could use the expertise and machinery that OSE are working to provide. I also have connections with FabLab, the Schumacher centre and various universities that could create and experiment with these machines.

• Are you interested in teaching about the GVCS?

I am interested in teaching about the GVCS and could even use the set as a design aid for other design and urban planning projects. I have previously suggested that a Lab be set up as part of a community development project in El Kef Tunisia. This Lab could teach and house the GVCS as the village is built.

• Are you interested in economic relocalization possibilities arising from the GVCS?

I have been involved with the work of Sergio Palleroni and the AGROS foundation. These groups try to create an alternative land ownership and production strategy that brakes the ties of wage labour to a more robust production system. It also reduces the impacts of monoculture farming.

• Do you want to use the GVCS technologies yourself? Do you want to build them yourself?

I would like to build them and experiment with some of the tools too. I would like to learn more about machine construction and engineering. I am engaged in building a RepRap and I could also weld something bigger together, for educational, community and personal use.

• Are you interested in starting up enterprise using the GVCS technologies?

As an architect a workshop or Lap would be very useful and particularly on the machine scale of the GVCS.. I would eventually like to start up some form of enterprise that encompasses the GVCS.

• Are you interested in having the GVCS technologies fabricated by your local custom fabricator?

I would much rather construct them myself and get to know the processes behind them. A much more empowering option. If the FabLab took on the task I would not be too upset.

• Are you interested in applying the GVCS to third world development? To redevelopment of crisis areas? To development of derelict areas in the developed world?

Having completed a masters in International Cooperation and Sustainable Emergency Architecture I would like use the GVCS in my projects. These might include projects in Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Morocco, South Africa, Cuba (These countries may prefer to be referred to as part o the 'Global South' rather than the third world) I feel that the GVCS is particularly well attuned to tackle real problems in these areas and should be considered for implementation in projects in all these areas, including the so called developed world or 'Global north'.

• Are you interested in starting up Industry 2.0 flexible fabrication enterprises for your local community, by drawing from a global repository of freely down-loadable designs and fabricating using open source fabrication equipment?

• Are you interested in the potential of the GVCS for developing local food systems?

• Are you interested in doing academic studies/papers, publishing books, or doing other analysis of our efforts?

• Are you interested in financial investment opportunities arising from our work?

• Are you interested in the distributive economic aspects of our work, and if so, how do you see this playing out?

• Are you interested in building renewable energy production facilities based on open hardware (solar concentrator electric, wind, biomass power)?

• Are you interested in building resilient communities based on access to the GVCS?

• Are you interested in creating a bug-out hut using GVCS technologies?

• How do you think that the GVCS can help alleviate the instabilities of global monetary systems?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues related to resource conflicts?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of overpopulation?

• How do you think that the GVCS can address issues of resource depletion and environmental degradation?

• Do you have any other comments that you'd like to make?

• What should happen so that you become more involved with the project?

• What are you missing in the project?

• What are your suggestions for improvement of the project?

WHAT

• What have you already contributed to the OSE project? (technical contributions, blogging about us, financial support, organizing events, translations, interviews, video editing, publications, publicity work, behind-the-scenes work, CAD work, wiki contributions, computer support, etc)

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HOW can you help?

• How are you interested in contributing to the work of GVCS development?

• Can you volunteer to work with us, and if so, how many hours per week?

• Are you interested in working with us for pay? If so, what services can you offer, and what is your hourly or per-project rate?

• Are you interested in Dedicated Project Visit?

• Are you interested in purchasing equipment from us to help bootstrap development?

• Are you interested in bidding for consulting/design/prototyping work?

• Are you a True Fan? If not, why not?

• Would you like to see yourself working with us on a full-time basis?

• Are you interested in being part of the world's first, open source, resilient community? The GVCS is the preparatory step for the OSE Village Experiment - a 2 year, immersion experiment (2013-2014) for testing whether a real, thriving, modern-day prototype community of 200 people can be built on 200 acres using local resources and open access to information? We are looking for approximately 200 people to fill a diverse array of roles, according to the Social Contract that is being developed. This may be the boldest social experiment on earth - a pioneering community whose goal is to extend the index of possibilities regarding harmonious existence of humans, ecology, and technology - as a beacon of light to benefit of all people on Earth.