OPEN DESIGN NOW
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Open Design Now is a collaborative effort of Creative Commons Netherlands, Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion and Waag Society.
aesthetics: 2D
2D layers make good parts for 3D objects. Based on the principles of modular design and architecture, a laser cutter makes it possible to produce all kinds of complex models and large objects. Community workshops make the technology available for everyone. It not only offers a lot of ingenious fun,
but it is also deadly serious for supporting DIY prosthetic limbs in parts of the world where this is not offered by professional healthcare. Learning such a craft might become a necessity for us all in the near future of the repair economy.
aesthetics: 2D contents in Open Design Now:
(UN)LIMITED DESIGN CONTEST / BAS VAN ABEL
(Un)Limited Design contest Experimenting with Open Design Bas van Abel Open design covers an extensive area and its contours are not yet clearly defined, making it difficult for designers to come to grips with the developments. One of the most tangible open … Continue reading
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PONOKO / PETER TROXLER
Ponoko: The Distributed Making System Peter Troxler Ponoko first saw the limelight of success on 17 September 2007 at TechCrunch40, a conference held in San Francisco to showcase ‘forty of the hottest new start-ups from around the world’ to a … Continue reading
CRITICAL MAKING / MATT RATTO
Open design can be employed to develop a critical perspective on the current institutions, practices and norms of society, and to reconnect materiality and morality. Matt Ratto introduces ‘critical making’ as processes of material and conceptual exploration and creation of … Continue reading
DO IT WITH DROOG / ROEL KLAASSEN, PETER TROXLER
Renny Ramakers talks about Droog’s latest project Downloadable Design, about making money, designing for the masses, the development of the design profession, and Droog Design’s recent experiments and research in sustainability, local production, co-creation, upcycling and collective revitalization of the … Continue reading
THE BEGINNING OF A BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING OF A TREND / PETER TROXLER
This portrait of open designer Ronen Kadushin reveals his vision of ‘opening’ industrial design and putting the designer firmly back in the centre of the design process. It tells of successful examples of Ronen’s design practice – the Hack Chair, … Continue reading
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MADE IN MY BACKYARD / BRE PETTIS
Envisioning the potential of open source tools to facilitate making, Bre Pettis retraces the thorny and convoluted path from wanting to produce self-replicating robots, through a series of prototypes, to being at the core of a little universe of 2,500 … Continue reading
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Aesthetics: 2D
2D layers make good parts for 3D objects. Based on the principles of modular design and architecture, a laser cutter makes it possible to produce all kinds of complex models and large objects. Community workshops make the technology available for … Continue reading