Jason, tell us more about you

I come from a family whose mantra is :

“You own what you have

in your hands and in your head;

the rest, people can take it away from you.”

I very much embrace this belief that know-how and knowledge are our only possessions in life, proof is, these are the only things we actually take to the grave.

Since I am 12, I have been dreaming of an open workspace on the district main square where everyone can bring their stuff and repair it together with the others.

I believe in a world where everyone has access to everything and when I discovered fablabs, I figured that the open workspace + digital fabrication is the future I was dreaming of so I’m fully in.

I believe in a world where human & relationships come first, so I’m now visiting fablabs across the BeNeLux to weave relationships and build this network and this community at the heart of Europe.

Also I’m meeting maker/fablab communities as much as I can from across the world from Japan, India, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Europe, …