 Welcome to a new Project Camp video. So in this video series we usually go out there to visit the community and learn from their experiences and just research on what could be done and could be improved. Except this time we're going to do it slightly different because we're not going to go out there but we're going to visit our own community which he set up in the last year when we developed a new version for precious plastic. So it's based in the Netherlands in a city called Eindhoven and we started about a year ago in this old empty building. It's right in the middle of the city, like really right in the middle. And before it was an old car garage and then it's been empty for a long time. So we transformed it into our workspace. We wanted to make a new version of precious plastic. We didn't plan a community, we just invited people to work. But yeah, they needed to sleep or can eat. So we had to figure this all out. What time do we have dinner? How do we sleep? How do we chill? Where do we shower? Everything. So we learn a lot about this whole process and it's been a very good test run for Project CAM. So let me show you all the things we've learned. Hey, welcome to the workspace. Here is where we've been working for the past years. We've like designers, engineers, developers, architects, chefs, coordinators. And these are people that come from all over the world. They come from different cultures with different expertise, different expectations. And they all here for one reason because we all care about the environment. And here particularly we work on plastic to develop solutions to the plastic problem. And that's one thing that we all share is that we know the world is kind of fucked, but we also know that there are a lot of solutions that can be developed to fix all of these big problems that we are facing. And moving forward here, we have the studio where we develop all the digital solutions to help people tackle this problem. There's a vegan kitchen that feeds us every day with incredible food. And over there is the workspace where we develop all the machines and tools for people to use around the world. And Jan is going to show you all the magic that happens in there every single day. Hey, so we're in the workspace. As you can hear, very noisy. And also messy place, particularly I was close to deadlines. But I will make you like a quick tour. So here we are in the metal working area when we will have all our metal stock, drill press, grinders, milling machine, lathe, chop saw. Everything needed to work with metal. And on the other side of the workspace, we have more our woodworking area. And then in the middle, the center of the workspace where we keep all our tools. So how does it work? So we start every morning at 10 by a quick meeting that lasts from 10 to 20 minutes. And basically we use this meeting to coordinate ourselves. It can be to coordinate ourselves for using the machines, for going to buy some stuff, for using the van, to go to scrap yard or to go to metal shop or anything. So everyone in the workspace have a particular project. And every week we meet all together to discuss our previous week goals and next week's goals. But recently we talked more about that. At the beginning of the year we created this wall to write down the goals, the individual goals that each person is working and have to achieve. So for instance we have the weekly goals, the monthly goals and the long-term goals to help keep an overview of what everybody is working on. And we are every Monday morning we divide ourselves in the product design team, the workspace area and the studio area. And we discuss the objectives of the weeks, is they are feasible, how are we going to make them, if it's realistic or if not. And that's pretty much about the tool. Hi, I'm Kat. When we arrived here, there was nothing here and things first had to be set up and people started working and more and more people started coming and working with a lot of people together easily gets messy as well. So together we came up with some ways how to make that working together easier and better. Let me just show you some of that. So this is our schedule. We started 9 with breakfast and 10 with work and then have lunch and dinner, snack and dinner. And that's just for everyone to know roughly when to be here for what. Then we have cleaning teams. So everyone is in one cleaning team and has one day a week. So I am in the monkey team, I am cleaning on Friday. Here we can always see our current team. We have 48 people, that's a lot. And then we have our calendar which gives us the overview of when are people leaving and coming and whose birthday it is. And then with so many people you easily lose the overview of who is actually working on what and responsible for what. So we made an overview of who is working in which area like digital communication machines, kitchen, food, product design. So people know who to ask and where they are working on. And to keep everything a bit clean we have every evening at 7, clean up time. So we ring this bell and we shout clean up time! So this is the daily stuff. And as we are still very much in progress of figuring out how to work together in a good way and things might not always run very smoothly we also have a weekly come together and a monthly community day where people can complain and give suggestions and just bring the wonderful and weird ideas how we can make things better. And this is all the work related stuff we do in here to stay productive but we also need to sleep and eat. So let me show you how that's done and first we go into the kitchen. We are in a precious plastic kitchen. I'm Cathy. I'm Aghi. And we are cooking here for over 50 people every day twice. Lunch and dinner. Yeah, some days more. Yeah. We cook vegan food. We getting our food from the market and we also ordering our food in a box. Huge amount. Okay, so we have everything really huge because we have a lot of people here. We are eating together twice. Dinner is happening outside right now. That's all our team. Thank you, Jerry. And what's the food people love the most? Peanut butter. Peanut butter. That's a huge peanut butter fight. What are people like the least? Cleaning up after open day potatoes. Huge complaints. Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm going to show you today where we're living. We have ten houses in the north of Eindhoven. Ten minutes cycling from the workspace. We can, we live, this guy lives with us. We live in this neighbor. We got ten houses here, one in this square. And we got one van, two, three, four vans. I'm going to show you inside. This room, it's built, building. It was a big living room. Papal decided to live in the living room. So he built it. And it's linked to the kitchen. And we got Nico. This house has got Wi-Fi. It's the only one. So all the people come here to work during the week because the work space is too loud and crazy. So people can relax, have a lot of tea because the name of this house is tea house. So you can come, choose your tea, boiling and make it. And we got... She lives in the garden room. With this guy. The house, the house. So we go. We made our garden. Nico made the tomato field. And we got the pumpkins. I don't know how, but we have pumpkins. And we got people sleeping in the garden room. Like Julie. She built it. It's a little bit. She just eased it a little bit. And she has a small heater, I think. And she got the vacuum cleaner. This is a rare piece of the houses. It's the only one that we have. So people have to share. We have a channel for that. What is the vacuum cleaner? And also, Glicerio also has it. For cleaning the house. And we just, we got one. And then we can go through the hall. This was locked. But Paco need the Wi-Fi. So he take it off. So now the tea house is linked. To all the other house. And if you see this sign. It means he's us. So you can just open the door. Walk in. And welcome to Kevin. He's a Jesun. Sleeping there. Good morning. It's dreaming about shit press. And then we got Jesun stuff. Under the rain. We got an amazing garden. And this is the most inspiring house. The first rules are Kevin. You have to draw on the wall. So this is almost one year of painting. And we used to do cinema. This. But now we change in marshmallow. So now we're here. And yeah. We got Kevin. And plus his recycle. It's so cool. It's pretty. You don't talk about washing machine. You don't talk about the washing machine. You don't talk about it. We don't know who write that. So here's Sarah from the Netherlands. It's fucking raining. And yeah, our house in like two months. They're gonna become like this. Or how else ten houses. And we gotta be homeless. So pay in patron. Give us two thousand some more. So we're gonna have a new house. And it was amazing being these houses. The neighborhood is amazing. And it's raining here. So I gotta back to the workspace. See you soon. All right. So that's basically the current infrastructure we set up. How we live, work and eat together. And over the year we learned quite a few things. And I wrote them down on my hand. So I don't forget. The first thing I would say it's been quite intense. Living and working with the same people in the same space. For one year long it's just, yeah, required quite some mental energy. And you really need to make sure you have time for yourself. Bulk food. I really like bulk food. It's hard for me to go back to individual food. Because it requires much more packaging. It's much more expensive. And in bulk's amount you can really buy straight from the farmer. So big fan of bulk food. Shared bikes. Originally we wanted to have a few bicycles that people could share. Didn't work at all. Bicycles were always broken. No one took responsibility. So we ended up that everyone just has their own bike. We didn't have an HR manager or something like that. Which you would usually find in a company to make sure everyone stays happy. So we were really lucky that we had a group of very flexible people that figured it out themselves. Made sure if there are problems that they would bring it up. So yeah, I would say that's not always the case that it would work out like that. But I think we've been lucky with that one. Deadline. So we had quite a tight one because we had one year to develop fresh plastic version 4. So towards the end it became much more intense and we really needed to get our stuff done. Which is not necessarily nice. It really becomes a very much work focused environment. And in the beginning it was a bit more community oriented as well. So I would say next time maybe less tight of a deadline. Now these are a few points that I personally learned during this time. But I also gathered a few feedback from members here in the community. That it's intense as fuck. Intense as strawberry with salt and sugar. A lot of challenges from the food to the intense way of living. Sometimes I mean what might have been difficult would have been getting some alone time. I would say privacy. I think after a while it's really intense. We live in this kind of bubble and we always see the same people and we have the same schedule. So especially at the weekends if I could I didn't come here in the workspace. I had long walks just like alone and in silence. So by the end of the weeks I appreciated silence really a lot. Yeah sometimes it could be hard. Or like when there is a lot of meeting or community meeting and you're just like... Yeah and the whole cleaning up was always a big thing. Like who cleaned up what? Why do I always have to clean up the onesaw and why does maintenance of machines and stuff like this. Trying to find that balance between creating a system that works for everyone while still catering to the individual needs of particular people and what time do you work best, what time do you like to eat who doesn't want to clean up at this time who would rather go home at that time. I also miss home and that kind of part I think. Teams works. Another sarcastic way of talking. People basically. Being pung. I really love to eat all the meals with a lot of people. Being part of something that feels more meaningful. Certainly this kind of sense of anything is possible and we can make a big difference here. Making sure we clean up at the end of the day. It's kind of an activity. I think that's the most community based day is like the one day we have to clean. Yeah for me like when I arrived what I was really surprised about it was like the power of co-creation. When we made progress I really liked that. So when we solved the problem. Being able to work with common-minded people was a common goal. And then also existing within that group the same group of people I think is really beneficial to I guess the development of a project. We were a lot of people that have a lot of things in common so maybe also that makes us like connect with each other very well. That eventually they have to become friends. There's like no way around becoming friends. I love living in a community and I actually can't really imagine myself going back and just owning a whole apartment in my own and yeah going back to how it was before.