Concept

Merge STEAM and Career Technical Education

MFG offers tuition-free training in repair trades that are underrepresented in the high desert. By leveraging philanthropic and civic funding sources, MFG offers debt-free professional development for local creative workers.

By redirecting products bound for the landfill into the MFG Workshop and ultimately the MFG Store (a boutique for guild members to sell their pieces), MFG fosters a viable circular economy in the high desert by reducing waste and consumption through the (re)creation of aesthetic functional objects.

Through a deeply relational approach, MFG fosters skills and connections through design. Working within a 2,000 sq.ft. hangar in Joshua Tree, MFG displays a commitment to caring for: community through creative workforce cultivation; and ecology through mindful material reuse.