
A
radical change has taken place in the last
decade: the Maker Movement,
makerspaces, and digital fabrication have
now reached every country on Earth. This change
has transformed the way I work. I no longer
respond to emergencies directly; instead, I try to
help create the conditions for emergence — the
emergence of local manufacturing and local
responses.
When I joined Field Ready as a volunteer in
2012, it was still just an idea — a brilliant one —
that maker machinery could be deployed into
disaster zones to make supplies on demand.
More broadly, it was about getting cutting-edge
innovations ready for the field of humanitarian
relief. Starting ...