Matrioshka
Venture Category: Urban furniture
Community: Sensorica
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Objectives
Objectives
Build economic support around the Matrioshka prototype for local distribution and service.
Description
Description
Matrioshka is an outdoor interactive, artistic and functional hardware furniture, which brings several functions and technologies/sensors embedded, and offers numerous possibilities of collaboration with artist, software engineers and other backgrounds people.
Products
Interactive and smart public spaces, urban furniture that supplies its own energy and connectivity.
Partners
Sensorica (electronics and local services),
Matrioshka Connections (marketing and sales)
Quatorze (mechanical design),
OuiShare Montreal (networking),
Axonartcollective (arts, design)
reelyActive (electronics and software)
Robco (manufacturing),
HyeGrafix (printing and cutting)
Background
The Matrioshka project was launched by Quatorze and it was brought to Montreal at Eco2Fest2016, organized by OuiShare Quebec. Sensorica played an active role in this event, and provided materials and technical support to the Matrioshka project. After Eco2Fest2016, Tanguy took the initiative to commercialize the Matrioshka in Montreal, forging a deeper collaboration between Sensorica and Quatorze. Other partners were brought into the venture subsequently.
Contents
Contents
Communication and coordination
Communication and coordination
Communication tools
Communication tools
Other websites
Social media
Coordination tools
Coordination tools
Planning
Planning
Notes
Notes
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Also visit the Matrioshka own website.
Incentives
Incentives
The Matrioshka project is participatory: people contribute to the project in exchange of sweat equity, which will provide access to benefits. For the moment, log your contributions HERE.
Economic model
Economic model
The short-term economic model for this venture is based mostly on public funding and crowdfunding.
The long-term economic model for this venture is built around open innovation and distributed manufacturing (DIY).
In short, for the long run, we're geared towards providing:
DIY kits (can be transactional kit sales) that provide required vitamins (non-digitally manufactured components) to build a particular tool (Zimmermann, 2014; Gibney, 2016).
Specialty parts / components, hard-to-find, custom (ex. BackYard Brains or OpenQCM both sell the most specialized and hardest to source components for their respective open hardware tools).
Help with calibrating and validating (scientific) hardware (can be transactional service) to provide security to prosumers who build their own tools. This provides prosumers with the confidence that their measurements or functionality are acceptably reproducible, accurate and precise.
Education / Training (ex. Open Source Ecology), include support. This can also follow the consulting business model (Fjelsted et al., 2012).
Ecosystem services: provide trust, validation, discoverability, help, a place to discuss and collaborate, etc.
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Organizational context
Agreements
Agreements
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