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.
crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a way for occasional communities to work together: rhizomatic collaboration. Individuals voluntarily taking on the role of a pixel in an image; part of a string of DNA coding for a remotely set function that creates or sustains the whole. In a networked gift economy, everyone is a potential sleeper cell. Collaborative efforts like these find themselves in a growing culture of individuals contributing to a world with a stronger social commons, essentially related to the type of social agency brought about by open design.
crowdsourcing contents in Open Design Now:
FROM BEST DESIGN TO JUST DESIGN / TOMMI LAITIO
Can open design contribute to the world’s bigger problems, such as depletion and squandering of natural resources, population growth, consumerism and widespread poverty? In turn, can pooling knowledge and resources, re-evaluating the concept of time, and facilitating user participation help open … Continue reading
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Tagged co-creation, community, crowdsourcing, Newly opened, open everything, printing, remix, revolution, social design, Tommi Laitio, trends
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DESIGN AND GOVERNMENT / BERT MULDER
Governmental institutions are challenged to use design and open design as a strategic tool. Bert Mulder addresses issues of participation and quality, and suggests how a government could develop a system that would include information, tools, methods and a set … Continue reading
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Tagged Bert Mulder, blueprints, crowdsourcing, do it yourself, mass customization, Newly opened, revolution, social design, template culture, trend
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THE GENERATIVE BEDROCK OF OPEN DESIGN / MICHEL AVITAL
A shift in communications infrastructure is an important factor in how open design has taken shape and the possibilities it offers. It is a transition from the ‘internet of things’ to the things of the internet. Michel Avital analyses the … Continue reading
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is a way for occasional communities to work together: rhizomatic collaboration. Individuals voluntarily taking on the role of a pixel in an image; part of a string of DNA coding for a remotely set function that creates or sustains … Continue reading