circular economy - and open source + hacking as paths to it

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

& Open Source & Hacking as Paths to it

Lars Zimmermann

@bricktick

Repair

Repurpose

Recycle

Recycle Without loosing any quality of the material

same material

Biosphere Grows more rich and diverse

Biosphere Grows more rich and diverseGrows more rich and diverse

Biosphere Grows more rich and diverse

WELL ...

These ideas we know for decades

AND WE

CAN CALL IT

WHY ? do people think we need it?

1. 6 % of all people that ever lived live right now. (Worldometers) 2. Global wealth is growing; ‚3 billion new customers will enter the market in the next 20-30 years’ (Mckinsey)

3. 2016 was the hottest year on record (NASA),

4. Industrialization pollutes and poisons the environment: Biodiversity is in decline, 58 000 animal species die every year = 160 a day (Der Spiegel)

5. Globalization: Air traffic and seafreight increasing constantly!

6. Our economy is still largely based on non renewable resources like oil, gas, rare metals... That are ever harder to get...

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Plastic in our oceans






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ExamplesSome early examples looking for new ways:

technical nutrients

in technical cyclebiological

nutrients

in biologicalcycle

Tool libraries & the fight against food waste

BUY USED LAP-TOPS!

Compost Toilets

Ok. So much for the design of products.


Let‘s now go one level up


Let‘s now go one level up

& look into the design of

Communication&

Collaboration

–1.} TRANSPARENCY IS KEY

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Share all plans, problems& solutionsopenly with the world

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open sharing across the whole universe

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Allowing our combined brainpower to make circularity happen.

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& save lives ...

It is much harder to hack (repair, reuse, recycle) black boxes

And it is much harder to do it alone...

> Open Source

Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design.

The hardware’s source, the design from which it is made, is available in the preferred format for making modifications to it.

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definition at: oshwa.org/definition

Open Source Software Examples

RapRap 3d Printer

TV-B-Gone

WikiHouse

Poppy – Open SourceRobot

Open Energy Monitor

OS-Vehicle

Arduino

Open Wheels

Open Source Ecology

FarmBot

OS-Vehicle

Open Desk

SparkFunOpen Source Hardware Examples

OPEN SOURCE enables TRANSPARENCY

and still or therefore! allows to run stable

projects and businesses!

–2 . } BUSINESS MODELS

BUSINESS MODELS FOR A CIRCULAR WASHING MACHINE

1. Longevity: As a selling point. You warrant.

2. Leasing: The manufacturer still owns the machine – so there is an interest for a longlasting and circular machine.

3. Sell washes: Not the machine: A manufacturer places a machine in the customers house and sells 10 000 washes. The manufacturer maintaines the machine.

4. Sell clean clothes: Not the machine: A company comes by and picks your dirty

laundry and delivers clean clothes. They have an interest in longlasting, repairable machines running in their factory.

BUSINESS MODELS FOR A CIRCULAR WASHING MACHINE

1. Longevity: As a selling point. You warrant.

2. Leasing: The manufacturer still owns the machine – so there is an interest for a longlasting and circular machine.

3. Sell washes: Not the machine: A manufacturer places a machine in the customers house and sells 10 000 washes. The manufacturer maintaines the machine.

4. Sell clean clothes: Not the machine: A company comes by and picks your dirty

laundry and delivers clean clothes. They have an interest in longlasting, repairable machines running in their factory.

+ But these models do not work for everything ...

+5. The Open Source Model! – Build a

circular washing machine Open Source – as a platform everyone can plug in and maintain, reuse, repurpose and recycle.

VIDEO series and TOOL about Open Source Business Models for Circular economy at: oscedays.org/b1

+ a bunch of consultants happy to explain it to you. Find them by contacting: openitagency.eu

There is a project

(disclaimer: I am a part of it)

oscedays.org

a global project

OSCEdays Forum: community.oscedays.org

But truth is,

the ‚circular economy‘ is mostly

talk.

QUESTIONS FOR YOU

1. Do you know circular products or processes around you?

2. What can you do to help the shift to a circular world?

3. If you were the CEO of a large company and you want it to become circular – what would you do?

4. (Look around you in this room. Do you see any circular things?)

Pick one to think about and let‘s discuss for a while

PART II

PART II

... & let‘s go back one more time into interstellar space ...

Apollo 8 Iconic Earth Shot „Blue Marble“ !969

BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED

in terms of circularity?

... very little ...

WHY!?

LOCK-INSs

EFFECT

LOCK-INSs

EFFECT

cars – universities – planes – balance board ... linear lock-in

Mifactori Circular Balance Board development

LOCK-INSs

EFFECT

cars – universities – planes – balance board ... linear lock-in

HOW TO GET OUT OF THIS ‚PRISION‘?

HACKING!Ss

thecityisopensource.de

HACKING =

to break a systems limitations

& (completely) repurposing it

with only small modifications to it

IFIXIT – a company providing tutorials and tools to repair

almost every smartphone

URBAN FOOD

PRODUCTION

HACK THECITY!

thecityisopensource.de

Hacking public transport

BUILD THINGS EASY TO HACK!

openstructures.net

mifactori.de

Circular Street Waste Workshop with Kids & Adults

mifactori.de

Mifactoris Hackable Chess Board

Well... and open things are easier to hack!

as said before

3 TAKE AWAY MESSAGES:

1. Circular Economy is a cool thing!

2. Open Source is the way to do it! (But we need to invent OS a lot further.)

3. Hacking is the way to get there!

– THANK YOU – For the Attention!

LARS ZIMMERMANN

Twitter@bricktick

Facebooklars.zimmermann.716

Websitelarszimmermann.de

PROJECTS

Open Source Circular Economy Daysoscedays.org

Open It Agencyopenitagency.eu

The City Is Open Sourcethecityisopensource.de

Mifactorimifactori.de