Marcin Jakubowski

What if the critical systems of civilization —housing, energy, food, and manufacturing— were open, modular, and collaboratively developed like open source software? Open Source Ecology (OSE) is working to make that a reality by creating the Global Village Construction Set: a library of open, low-cost, high-performance machines that enable distributed production and local resilience at industrial productivity.

This keynote outlines how OSE combines extreme design-build, collaborative literacy, and enterprise-backed training to accelerate the development of open hardware ecosystems. By integrating education, production, and entrepreneurship —such as building homes while training new practitioners— OSE demonstrates a viable pathway to an open source economy with lower costs, faster innovation, and broader access to the means of production.

The talk challenges assumptions about proprietary development and industrial scale, presenting a concrete, scalable alternative: a transparent, collaborative model capable of rebuilding the technosphere for abundance, resilience, and human flourishing.