The project is the SunFactory Project Design Office: a design office that continuously carries out research and development of solar commons. Summarised on one page: purpose, problem, solution, revenue, costs and impact. A document to attach to funding applications.
A design office that continuously carries out research and development of solar commons · Antenna Foundation, Geneva · Fundraising 2026 – 2028
Increase the agency of local actors through solar energy, by designing and sharing low-tech machines as technological commons.
Low-tech, open source and costed solar machines that anyone can build, repair and improve.
Designed once, replicated everywhere: no electricity, no licence fees, no dependency.
Two unique technologies: solar plastic recycling and sun-puffed cereals.
Beneficiaries: rural and vulnerable communities, craftspeople, small producers, micro-entrepreneurs.
Customers: FabLabs, NGOs, schools, local authorities, institutions facing a challenge.
Funders: foundations, public programmes, patrons.
Reinvested in research, open documentation and opening new SunFactory Labs. No distribution: the non-profit Antenna Foundation receives the funds and pays the mandates.
13 Sustainable Development Goals · local jobs and income · paid missions for people in need · plastic waste recovered · energy and food autonomy · solar knowledge open and durably accessible to all.
Template: Social Lean Canvas, created in 2013 by Rowan Yeoman, Dave Moskovitz and the Ākina Foundation, adapted from Ash Maurya's Lean Canvas, under licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Content: SunFactory Project Design Office, under CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.