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What would the share-by-default option mean for a global society where Wikileaks is able to stir things up for weeks? What if everyone could follow every move you and I make? Big Brother would become blind instantly, and a lot of intellectual property would get lost. Would innovation still happen? Will you and I be able to find each other and get lost in a co-creative Babel? We don’t know, but it is time we find out, if we are taking the worldwide open experiment seriously. Share this!

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(UN)LIMITED DESIGN CONTEST / MARIA NEICU

(Un)Limited Design contest Openness in Vitro Maria Neicu Openness is no longer only seen in the context of open software; it has become a broadly applicable concept, carried by the digital in the analogue world. Design tools are in user’s … 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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OHANDA / JÜRGEN NEUMANN

OHANDA Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance Jürgen Neumann OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable copyleft-style sharing of open hardware and design. Since its emergence from the GOSH!-Grounding Open Source Hardware summit at the Banff Centre in July 2009, one of … Continue reading

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IKEA HACKERS / DANIEL SAAKES

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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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FRITZING / ANDRÉ KNÖRIG, JONATHAN COHEN, RETO WETTACH

A COMMON LANGUAGE TO EXCHANGE IDEAS André Knörig, Jonathan Cohen, Reto Wettach Fritzing is an open source project with the aim of supporting designers, artists and hobbyists (i.e. ‘non-engineers’) to work creatively with interactive electronics. As computer processing power moves … Continue reading

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LEARNING BY DOING / MUSHON ZER-AVIV

Mushon Zer-Aviv describes his efforts to teach open source design as an attempt to investigate why collaborative work combined with individual autonomy has not been common practice in design, as it is in open source software development. He discusses whether … Continue reading

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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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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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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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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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