Dominic received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, and a Master's Degree in Industrial Design from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has worked as a toy inventor at Meyer/Glass Design, architectural systems researcher at Kieran Timberlake Associates, and most recently, as product designer at Michael Graves Design Group. He has also written extensively on design and how it relates to society, both online as a writer for Treehugger.com, and on the weblog IDFuel.com, which he founded. Dominic's research interests are in the role of play and games in motivating user action, appropriate manufacturing technologies for distributed production, and systems and methodologies for enabling inter-disciplinary collaboration. His new book entitled "Green's Not Black & White: The Balanced Guide to Making Eco Decisions" is due out in the spring of 2009.
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What is Humblefacture?
Modern manufacturing produces wondrous objects, in massive quantity, at a low price. But the costs to the environment, social stability, and economic justice are large, and often hidden. Small-scale, localized, clever manufacturing would minimize the ability for this cost hiding to continue. More importantly, local production gives the customer a bigger voice to dictate what they need and want out of products. Manufacturing should be humble to people, not the other way around. But we can't afford to backslide either - modern life demands complex technologies, and we can't make them as subsistence farmers or hunter gatherers.
Humblefacture is Dominic Muren's exploration of how to make small-scale, local, low infrastructure manufacturing that can still make the complicated objects modern life demands.
Humblefacture is Dominic Muren's exploration of how to make small-scale, local, low infrastructure manufacturing that can still make the complicated objects modern life demands.
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I'm an RPCV and former environmental regulator who started a business, retroworks.com, which is basically about "fair trade recycling". I noticed you were making the same points I've been making about the retained value = added value as compared to shredding and grinding up western goods. I wanted to invite you to guest post, or read http://retroworks.blogspot.com/ You may be interested to know that the free market of "informal recyclers" naturally uses retained value components, and that some have become so good at it that they represent a threat to OEMs. See Harvard Business Review article, "Battle for China's Good Enough Market". What i am trying to do is protect the reuse markets already up and running, which are being gunned down and clubbed.
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