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.
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Back in the day, The Pirate Bay was an infamous P2P file-sharing service, used to exchange illegal CAD files for products of global brands like Mercedes, Apple and Gucci, which were fed into every household’s 3D microwave to replace the household’s car parts, PCs or clothing. It became legal again when the world government placed a very high sales tax on the liquid copy medium for those 3D prints. If this is to become our future, if digital files will be so easy to distribute and turn into physical products, what will become of our post-industrial age?
downloadable design 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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SHAREABLE / NEAL GORENFLO
SHAREABLE Open Design for an Access Economy Neal Gorenflo Like any innovation, open design by itself is neither good nor bad. Its social value depends entirely on how it’s used. It can be used for the common good, or it … Continue reading
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IKEA HACKERS / DANIEL SAAKES
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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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
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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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
REDESIGNING DESIGN / JOS DE MUL
Open design is not a clear and unambiguous development or practice. Jos de Mul names a few of the problems he perceives with open design, without venturing to suggest any indication of how they might be solved. He then goes … Continue reading
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ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN DESIGN / PAUL ATKINSON
Investigating the roots of open design and identifying its resulting technological, economical and societal changes, Atkinson contemplates the vast consequences this development will have for the design profession and the distribution of design. Paul Atkinson The concepts of open design … Continue reading
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Downloadable design
Back in the day, The Pirate Bay was an infamous P2P file-sharing service, used to exchange illegal CAD files for products of global brands like Mercedes, Apple and Gucci, which were fed into every household’s 3D microwave to replace the … Continue reading