Objective:
Tzoumakers is an open lab for communities to cooperatively design and manufacture tools for small-scale agricultural production. Our vision is to create such sites in both villages and cities where citizens may seize technology into their own hands. These sites may be supported by municipalities and/or by multi-stakeholder cooperatives.
Context:
Mountainous agricultural communities suffer from fragmentation, lack of infrastructures and networking. Moreover, agricultural tools are made mainly for industrial-scale production. Small-scale organic farmers are often compelled to adapt their cultivations to big and expensive tools instead of being capable to adapt their tools to their cultivations.
Contacts:
Alekos Pantazis, tzoumakers@protonmail.com, tzoumakers.gr
Further information:
Τzoumakers: A mountainous community of open source technologies, Greek National Television (ERT3). Accessed July 28, 2020 https://youtu.be/Q66rciAJwQc
Kostakis, V., Ramos, J. (2017) Design global, manufacture local: a new industrial revolution? The Conversation, Accessed July 28, 2020. https://theconversation.com/design-global-manufacture-local-a-new-industrial-revolution-82591
Pantazis, A., Meyer, M. (2020). Tools from Below: Making Agricultural Machines Convivial. The Greek Review of Social Research.