Standards

Standards enable translingual communication. They enable Lego to be a profitable enterprise. They have been nice for kids, but also for designers and hackers. Standardization wars consume a lot of energy for the sake of open market competition, leaving consumers with a new harvest of hardware plugs every season. What is a good balance between minimal standardization and maximum bandwidth for diversity and creativity? What comprises the architecture of digital co- creation, and distributed open fabrication, to share and sustain open design?

NAPOLEON TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED THE 1795 METRIC SYSTEM


JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID ‘NAPOLEON CROSSES THE ST. BERNARD’

PAPER SIZE STANDARDS

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION CAMPAIGN


CAMPAIGN FOR EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

STANDARDIZING INTERACTION: A GESTURE LIBRARY FOR TOUCH SCREENS


SOURCE: OPEN SOURCE GESTURE LIBRARY, CHAD PERSON

QWERTY: AN OLD STANDARD THAT SURVIVED NEW MEDIA


SOURCE: COMMONS.WIKIMEDIA.ORG

LEGO SINCE 1949 ➝ LIBRARIES OF THE PEER PRODUCTION ERA / PETER TROXLER


ALAN CHIA ➝ WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/SEVEN13AVENUE

ESPERANTO, AN EASY-TO-LEARN AND POLITICALLY NEUTRAL LANGUAGE


L.L. ZAMENHOF ➝ EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/ESPERANTO

DETAIL FROM OPEN DESIGN MANUAL BY INTRASTRUCTURES


MANUAL FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE OPEN DESIGN PROCESS BY INTRASTRUCTURES

OPEN STRUCTURES GRID BY THOMAS LOMMÉE ➝ OPEN STANDARDS / THOMAS LOMMÉE


DESIGN AND PHOTO: PHILIP LUSCHEN

A 20 TO 5 MM PLUG BEING ADDED TO OPEN STRUCTURES ➝ OPEN STANDARDS / THOMAS LOMMÉE


DESIGN: INTRASTRUCTURES

OPEN STRUCTURES KITCHEN ➝ OPEN STANDARDS / THOMAS LOMMÉE


DESIGN: CHRISTIANE HOEGNER, LUCAS MAASSEN, THOMAS LOMMÉE, JO VAN BOSTRAETEN, BIOGAS-E VZW & MICHOU NANON DEBRUIJN, PHOTO: KRISTOF VRANCKEN FOR Z33.

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