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MEDIALAB PRADO / LAURA FERNÁNDEZ

Medialab Prado a Methodology for Collaborative Prototyping Laura Fernández Medialab Prado, part of Madrid’s municipal arts department, is aimed at the production, research and dissemination of digital culture and the area where art, science, technology and society intersect. 1 Medialab Prado … Continue reading

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INSTRUCTABLES RESTAURANT / ARNE HENDRIKS

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INSTRUCTABLES RESTAURANT Open Design in a Restaurant Setting Arne Hendriks The Instructables Restaurant 1 is the world’s first open source restaurant. If you like the food, the restaurant gives you the recipe. And if you love the chair, or any of … Continue reading

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IKEA HACKERS / DANIEL SAAKES

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IKEA HACKERS: THE LAMPAN Opportunities for ‘New’ Designers Bring Challenges for ‘Old’ Designers Daniel Saakes At the beginning of the 20th century, when standardization successfully separated design from manufacturing, a new profession emerged: the industrial designer. Industrial designers cater to … Continue reading

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IDEO & OPENIDEO.COM / TOM HULME

SOCIAL PROBLEM SOLVING BY COLLABORATION Great innovation requires widespread collaboration. The strongest evidence of this correlation is the spike in innovation that occurred around the time of the Industrial Revolution, when people from diverse backgrounds began living and working together … Continue reading

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FRITZING / ANDRÉ KNÖRIG, JONATHAN COHEN, RETO WETTACH

A COMMON LANGUAGE TO EXCHANGE IDEAS André Knörig, Jonathan Cohen, Reto Wettach Fritzing is an open source project with the aim of supporting designers, artists and hobbyists (i.e. ‘non-engineers’) to work creatively with interactive electronics. As computer processing power moves … Continue reading

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FORM FOLLOWS USER / DEANNA HERST

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN, THE OPEN FORM AND ART EDUCATION Deanna Herst Participatory design has changed the role of the designer: from an author of finished products, like books or furniture, into a developer of frameworks or structures of ‘open works’, like Wikipedia. … Continue reading

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FIFTY DOLLAR LEG PROSTHESIS / ALEX SCHAUB ET AL

Intercontinental Collaboration on Prosthetic Design. If you plan to produce a $50 below-knee prosthesis for a developing country like Indonesia, where would you start? Is it even possible, considering that a below-knee prosthesis in the Western world costs $4,000? Waag … Continue reading

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FAIRPHONE / JENS MIDDEL

ANSWERING THE CALL OF A GENERATION Jens Middel Suppose you want to make people aware of grave human rights abuses in a faraway country. Suppose you also want to convince them to take action against those abuses. And suppose, finally, … Continue reading

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DIWAMS / PAULO HARTMANN

DO IT WITH ALREADY MADE STUFF Paulo Hartmann As the environmental crisis grows ever more urgent, an awareness of ecological values is spreading. Overtly eco-friendly trends run rampant in corporate communications and marketing, plastering buzzwords like ‘sustainability’ all over every … Continue reading

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DESIGNSMASH / ENLAI HOOI

AN OPEN DESIGN BUSINESS MODEL. Enlai Hooi It is still somehow an unusual thought that open design might be considered a viable, possibly even beneficial, strategy for business. The product design industry has been slow to move on the issue … Continue reading

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