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.
Peter Troxler
Peter Troxler is an independent researcher and developer with a history as a project manager, theatre director, community steward and industrial engineer. For Peter, “open design is a practice that borrows its operating principles from open source software and applies them in the domain of design. It conveys knowledge about its products transparently, communicating its nature within the products themselves. As a peer-oriented form of production, it makes production tools, methods and experience accessible to everybody as a common infrastructure; it gives people options for controlling their productivity. It is continually evolving, appearing and reappearing in various shapes, sometimes producing contradictory manifestations.”
Peter Troxler contents in Open Design Now:
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
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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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