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.
social design
Social design covers a range between products and services, creating to change society and build a better world. SocialDesignSite.com bears the slogan ‘We cannot not change the world’. Doesn’t that say enough? Design is a collective and collaborative responsibility, which has a solution-seeking aesthetic
that goes beyond beauty. If it regards every situation to be possibly designed, openness is an evolutionary asset of its mission and copying an obligation of all its participants. It’s a different proposition than the average CSR.
social design contents in Open Design Now:
IDEO & OPENIDEO.COM / TOM HULME
SOCIAL PROBLEM SOLVING BY COLLABORATION Great innovation requires widespread collaboration. The strongest evidence of this correlation is the spike in innovation that occurred around the time of the Industrial Revolution, when people from diverse backgrounds began living and working together … Continue reading
FIFTY DOLLAR LEG PROSTHESIS / ALEX SCHAUB ET AL
Intercontinental Collaboration on Prosthetic Design. If you plan to produce a $50 below-knee prosthesis for a developing country like Indonesia, where would you start? Is it even possible, considering that a below-knee prosthesis in the Western world costs $4,000? Waag … Continue reading
FAIRPHONE / JENS MIDDEL
ANSWERING THE CALL OF A GENERATION Jens Middel Suppose you want to make people aware of grave human rights abuses in a faraway country. Suppose you also want to convince them to take action against those abuses. And suppose, finally, … Continue reading
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FROM BEST DESIGN TO JUST DESIGN / TOMMI LAITIO
Can open design contribute to the world’s bigger problems, such as depletion and squandering of natural resources, population growth, consumerism and widespread poverty? In turn, can pooling knowledge and resources, re-evaluating the concept of time, and facilitating user participation help open … Continue reading
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DESIGN AND GOVERNMENT / BERT MULDER
Governmental institutions are challenged to use design and open design as a strategic tool. Bert Mulder addresses issues of participation and quality, and suggests how a government could develop a system that would include information, tools, methods and a set … 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
Social design
Social design covers a range between products and services, creating to change society and build a better world. SocialDesignSite.com bears the slogan ‘We cannot not change the world’. Doesn’t that say enough? Design is a collective and collaborative responsibility, which … Continue reading
Preface / Bas van Abel, Lucas Evers & Roel Klaassen
Open design existed before the publication of this book, of course. At the end of the last century, it was defined as design whose makers allowed its free distribution and documentation and permitted modifications and derivations of it. More than … Continue reading
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Tagged Bas van Abel, blueprints, co-creation, community, creative commons, events, Lucas Evers, remix, Roel Klaassen, social design
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