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.
do it yourself
We find ourselves in the brief pocket of the history of mankind in which DIY is a choice, compared to thousands of years of a DIY-by-default past and thousands more of a DIY-by-default future, not to mention the vast majority of people on the globe at this very moment for which the term is redundant. Like modern mass fabrication technology has produced the term DIY, modern peer fabrication technology
might make it disappear again. How about knitting your own car tonight, or modding your furniture in the microwave?
do it yourself contents in Open Design Now:
Introduction / Marleen Stikker
The pioneers of our time are not taking the world at face value, as a given from outside; rather, they see the world as something you can pry open, something you can tinker with. Marleen Stikker In his novel The … Continue reading
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