Episode 7: Dominic Muren |
Dominic Muren is founder and principal of The Humblefactory, a design laboratory in Seattle, Washington which develops tools and technologies that increase the capabilities of Makers around the world. Since his early career founding the popular industrial design blog IDFuel.com, and writing for Treehugger.com — dubbed “The Green CNN” — Dominic has been exploring the opportunities and consequences of how we make the objects we need. Since 2008, he has been writing about a new, open-hardware-based, human-scaled ethos for manufacturing at Humblefacture.com. In 2010, he was awarded a TED Global fellowship for his work on Humblefacture. In 2011, he was named a PopTech Social Innovation Fellow. His most recent projects explore how to make consumer products — furniture, household goods, even electronics — from materials sourced exclusively from self-sustaining ecologies, without mining or fossil energy. In addition to his work at The Humblefactory, Dominic is a Design professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
For this session on MC, Dominic’s intellectual design sensibilities shine as he gives insights into how he approaches some of the common questions that come up around mindful consumption. He explores positive and negative impacts of human interference within ecologies, shares inspirations that helped drive his passion for building a better planet through design, and presents ideas for ways we can all be more creatively eco-engaged.
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