PART ONE | Massive Change at the MCA

Design Economies :: Manufacturing

We will eliminate the need for raw material and banish all waste.

The idea of the endless cycle of design and production promises a shift in manufacturing processes from the wasteful industrial systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The new design model provides a continuous assembly-disassembly line that cycles the product and its constituent matter in a never-ending loop of improvement. Cycle to cycle: Instead of disposing of waste, think about how to use it as an input. The goal is no waste generation at all. Apply the intelligence of nature to human needs. Waste=food.

Meanwhile, powerful new tools for virtual simulation link the entire manufacturing process in a continuous flow — from design to prototyping, to fabrication, and even to disassembly. The capacity in one field is immediately applied to another.