James Tooze is a Senior Tutor on the Design Products programme at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London and a visiting tutor at other Universities. At the RCA he leads the Exploring Emergent Futures Platform in Design Products. He is leading research into sustainable distributed manufacturing and co founder of the Distributed Everything Research Group. James has a background as a furniture designer and cabinetmaker which he continues to do, and through a recent collaboration with opendesk.cc combine with his research area.