The Challenge
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How might we restore vibrancy in cities and regions facing economic decline?
Concept
Made In Our Streets Label (MIOS)
The purpose of MIOS concept is to connect abandoned spaces + unemployed workers + recyclable scrap under a label in order to transform these major problems as an opportunity.- Local scrap
can be collected and reused in order to create local products
- Abandoned
places from each area could host a whole new recovery-reuse system
- Local
unemployed workers (or anybody really!) could use this system
- The system could
be run on a cooperative basis making participants independent Craftsmen
- This label
will carry strong values:
As nature, we invent ourselves with what we have around us.
For nature - Local for environmental issues
For human - Local to create jobs for our families and friends
We love collaboration – sharing – mutual aid
To celebrate creativity and uniqueness
Carrying and entrepreneurship support- When competing with other products imported:
No money used for material
No money used for transport
No money used for energy
No money used for communication
All the money the product is worth will go in a decent pay.
What resources (money, time, people, technology, etc) will your concept need to be successful?
1- Communication and business model: define the system, define clearly the label and the values, prepare a central website (need some time and some thinking)
2- Propose the concept to city councils in order to find abandoned places to be reused (1 dollar should be enough)
3- Rearrange the place. The system being designed to help unemployed people, it should be easy to negotiate welfare benefits changed into a grant. This money will be used for major rework and a minimum of tools to start the work.
4- Raw material.
A truck will go and propose their services to local communities. They will come and collect their old stuff, or people could pass by and drop off their old products.
Proposing the service will serve many different areas: enrolment, communication, raw material collecting. That's the good thing when things are local, it is so easy to communicate, and for people to understand the interest of the project. Families will give, or buy just because friends or family members will work as a MIOS craftsman.
5- Once craftsmen are joining and selling their first products, a percentage of this money will go back to the system in order to pay for new tools and keep the system rolling (employees to manage the system).
6- The place could have other revenues as well. We could imagine hosting technical workshops for schools, or other type of use for the site.
The workers as well could get extra revenue. This system, well accepted and bounded with the community could propose services at home (DIY, etc...)
When possible workers can repair instead of creating new products.
Unusable material can be sold for recycling.
7- Linking locally
Once it is rolling, an online learning community could be created in order to link local needs with local creation.
8- Linking globally
Then an online global community could share technical solutions or ideas regarding the workshop, and marketing, system, business solutions for the MIOS label.
2- Propose the concept to city councils in order to find abandoned places to be reused (1 dollar should be enough)
3- Rearrange the place. The system being designed to help unemployed people, it should be easy to negotiate welfare benefits changed into a grant. This money will be used for major rework and a minimum of tools to start the work.
4- Raw material.
A truck will go and propose their services to local communities. They will come and collect their old stuff, or people could pass by and drop off their old products.
Proposing the service will serve many different areas: enrolment, communication, raw material collecting. That's the good thing when things are local, it is so easy to communicate, and for people to understand the interest of the project. Families will give, or buy just because friends or family members will work as a MIOS craftsman.
5- Once craftsmen are joining and selling their first products, a percentage of this money will go back to the system in order to pay for new tools and keep the system rolling (employees to manage the system).
6- The place could have other revenues as well. We could imagine hosting technical workshops for schools, or other type of use for the site.
The workers as well could get extra revenue. This system, well accepted and bounded with the community could propose services at home (DIY, etc...)
When possible workers can repair instead of creating new products.
Unusable material can be sold for recycling.
7- Linking locally
Once it is rolling, an online learning community could be created in order to link local needs with local creation.
8- Linking globally
Then an online global community could share technical solutions or ideas regarding the workshop, and marketing, system, business solutions for the MIOS label.
How can your idea be scaled so that it's implemented in cities around the world?
This concept can be globally replicated with a strong label promoting locally made.
Being a global label it can be adopted easily anywhere pretty much like a franchise.
It can unify a mutual aid community and the system invention can evolve on its own (business – marketing – system issues)
At the same time any promotion can be mutualised.
Being a global label it can be adopted easily anywhere pretty much like a franchise.
It can unify a mutual aid community and the system invention can evolve on its own (business – marketing – system issues)
At the same time any promotion can be mutualised.
Downloads
MIOS Concept: mios-concept.pdf
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