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.
community
Communities may be the opposite of consumers; consumers get everything mass-produced for them as individual entities, while communities take action, making more conscious choices. Groups tend to emancipate more easily than individuals and the internet is a powerful catalyzer. Since the rise of that network, the number and variety of communities has exploded, for better or for worse. Commercialization of online communities is mirrored by the revival of offline communities. Cooking together may form an important kind of collective agency.
community contents in Open Design Now:
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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Community
Communities may be the opposite of consumers; consumers get everything mass-produced for them as individual entities, while communities take action, making more conscious choices. Groups tend to emancipate more easily than individuals and the internet is a powerful catalyzer. Since … Continue reading
CO-WORKING / MICHELLE THORNE
DESIGNING FOR COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION. The 20th century was the unfortunate era of hyper- consumerism. You know the stats: basically, the world is ending, and we, the insatiable consumers of the world, are at fault. Traditionally, there are two solutions for … Continue reading
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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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