Village Kit

Mission: To regenerate our world, block by block

• Anyone, anywhere able to make everyday things
• Open source, globally-designed, locally-produced
• Adaptable, affordable, reusable, and environmentally friendly

• Most building practices are wasteful, single-use, energy-intensive, and toxic.
• Most design systems are proprietary and incompatible: limiting re-use.
• Most products become obsolete or unrepairable: requiring new products to replace old.

• Universal building system for people and communities to build, re-build, and customize everyday things.
• Open platform with global catalogue of designs and local supply of reusable parts.
• Collaborative network where people design, share, and construct modular, reusable, and eco-friendly living spaces.

Open Library of Parts

• A part is fundamental (indivisible)
• A part has parameters (e.g. variant, length)
• A part is self-descriptive
  • Physical properties: size, weight, material, etc
  • Connections (inputs and outputs): mechanical, electrical, plumbing, etc
  • Has instructions on how to maintain and manufacture (3d print files etc)

Open Catalogue of Products

• A product is an assembly composed of many parts
• A product is described by a function: (parameters) => parts
• Some products are parametric (e.g. a chair has a height, width, etc)
  • Each product has a Bill of Materials: a set of parts to build
  • Each product has step-by-step instructions on how to build
• Anyone can write and publish a product

Peer Production Marketplace

• Anyone can be a supplier for any number of parts
• When you purchase a product, we connect you with local suppliers for the parts you need
• We provide suppliers with a platform to manage their orders, payments, inventory, and manufacturing processes
• Long-term goal is to use the Value Flows accounting system for composable smart-contracts and transparent resource flows