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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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In the network society, information will travel at light speed. In the network society, no one will be offline anymore. In the network society, the boundaries between public and private will blur so much that it will become unclear whether innovation comes from the industry or from households. The spectrum between one-to- one and many-to-many will fully be utilized by both humans and machines, messages will still be broadcast, but objects will too.
network society contents in Open Design Now:
OPEN STANDARDS / THOMAS LOMMÉE
Open Standards Design for Adaptation: A New Design Vocabulary Thomas Lommée Over the last 20 years, we have been witnessing the early developments of a networked economy that is operated by its interconnected participants. Decentralized information streams and sources have … 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
DESIGN LITERACY: ORGANIZING SELF-ORGANIZATION / DICK RIJKEN
The position of knowledge and expertise is changing radically, particularly in relation to how design literacy is affected when confronted with digital tools and media. Dick Rijken analyses design literacy on three levels – strategic, tactical, and operational – and … Continue reading
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CREATION & CO: USER PARTICIPATION IN DESIGN / PIETER JAN STAPPERS & CO
The roles of the designer, the client (or producer, or manufacturer) and the user are being shaken up in industrial practices that have, until now, been oriented mainly towards mass production. Stappers and his colleagues illustrate the contemporary occurrence of … 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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Tagged aesthetics: 2D, designers, events, hacking design, knowledge, manifestos, mass customization, network society, Peter Troxler, revolution, Ronen Kadushin, share, trends
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LIBRARIES OF THE PEER PRODUCTION ERA / PETER TROXLER
Mapping the landscape of commons-based peer production, Peter Troxler analyses the arena of open source hardware and looks into various initiatives being spawned by fabrication labs, trying to identify their business potential and asking how these initiatives contribute to giving … Continue reading
AUTHORS AND OWNERS / ANDREW KATZ
Andrew Katz traces the origins of the problems of copyright legislation and practice when confronted with the natural, human, social mode of creative endeavour. Building on developments in open source software, he outlines how designers could benefit from a similar … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Andrew Katz, co-creation, creative commons, designers, hacking, knowledge, network society, printing, remix, reproduction, share, WYS ≠ WYG
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Network society
In the network society, information will travel at light speed. In the network society, no one will be offline anymore. In the network society, the boundaries between public and private will blur so much that it will become unclear whether … Continue reading
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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