Goods. Gear. Gadgets is a community owned and operated FAB Lab/ Makers Hub that will be located right in the heart  of South Seattle's industrial district of Georgetown. It will be surrounded by a  not-yet-developed neighborhood of mixed-use commercial/residential  living spaces that work to combine artist lofts with micro-housing in a  urban-village setting. 

The  signage is simple "Goods. Gear. Gadgets." in green neon—the design of  its facade and the flow of its interior is very utilitarian. This is a HUB for anyone who doesn’t necessarily want to "own" things, but wants access to things when needed. Think 

REI meets Sears meets Amazon for the sharing/circular economy. 

And  most importantly, imagine a KIOSK equipped with immersive AR/VR where when you will step inside your body is scanned to size while you  interact with a design board displaying an extensive database uploaded  from fashion designers from all over the world. When you find the outfit  of your choosing, it can be Made on Demand (on-site) same day, AND not  only that, you will now have the ability to design an outfit for  yourself, in a real-time, blended-reality setting. Within this KIOSK it  is a meet-your-maker experience where creative consumers have a  more personal relationship with the means of production. 

Taking this one  step further, we will now be able to enter our designs into this  database, into a Closet Share Program, and/or consign them in the  physical space of this Makers-Hub. 

In  another KIOSK, we now have the ability to 3D print parts to fix just  about anything that is broken and/or make the prototype for just about  anything imaginable and at the end of every “things” life all parts can  be recycled, its fiber re-purposed into the new feed-stock to begin this  process all over again. 

In this Makers-Space all waste becomes  resource. In this Makers-Hub all items can be shared, consigned, and/or  re-purposed.

Now,  let's let our minds wander a bit further and imagine the  benefits to our built environment as we begin to localize the means of  production  for just about everything at the point of consumption. Through Make on Demand, we will now be able  to address the  other real challenges confronting our cities today,  namely climate  change and resulting sea-level-rise. We will become less  dependent on our ports for our necessities which will allow us the space to  invest in the  natural infrastructure needed to restore our ports,  regenerate  estuaries, build seawalls and canals (if and where they are  needed), and in the  end On-Demand Manufacturing could become our first line of  defense against the  environmental extremes projected in the  not-so-distant future.

I first visited Goods. Gear. Gadgets. in a dream. Now I'm asking you to help bring it to life.

It’s something fun to think about...