The mission of
Open Source Ecology (OSE)
is to create tools & means for
sustainable development
frugal innovation
practitioner
When OSE was first founded in 2003, the concept of Open Source Ecology was established.
This means a world where open source meets economy meets ecology. This means a prosperous world of people living in harmony with their natural life support systems.
An open source, libre economy is an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration. To get there, OSE is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker.
In the process of creating the GVCS, OSE intends to develop a modular, scalable platform for documenting and developing open source, libre hardware – including blueprints for both physical artefacts and for related open enterprises.
The current practical implementation of the GVCS is a life size LEGO set of powerful, self-replicating production tools for distributed production.
The Set includes fabrication and automated machines that make other machines. Through the GVCS, OSE intends to build not individual machines – but machine construction systems that can be used to build any machine whatsoever.
Because new machines can be built from existing machines, the GVCS is intended to be a kernel for building infrastructures of modern civilisation.
