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.
remix
Remixing is something that comes from deep within us. A child learns by remixing his or her parents’ behavior. Nothing novel is so new it does not relate to anything remotely similar. Originality can be regarded a strange obstacle to innovation, comparing the Western world to China. The remixing mindset is an enormous source of creativity – the Chinese refer to it as Shanzhai. Would open design be possible without it? Would culture be possible without it? What is the difference between jazz and casemodding?
remix contents in Open Design Now:
(UN)LIMITED DESIGN CONTEST / BAS VAN ABEL
(Un)Limited Design contest Experimenting with Open Design Bas van Abel Open design covers an extensive area and its contours are not yet clearly defined, making it difficult for designers to come to grips with the developments. One of the most tangible open … 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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Tagged activism, blueprints, community, designers, hacking design, Jürgen Neumann, remix, share, WYS ≠ WYG
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IKEA HACKERS / DANIEL SAAKES
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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DIWAMS / PAULO HARTMANN
DO IT WITH ALREADY MADE STUFF Paulo Hartmann As the environmental crisis grows ever more urgent, an awareness of ecological values is spreading. Overtly eco-friendly trends run rampant in corporate communications and marketing, plastering buzzwords like ‘sustainability’ all over every … Continue reading
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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Tagged co-creation, community, crowdsourcing, Newly opened, open everything, printing, remix, revolution, social design, Tommi Laitio, trends
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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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Tagged amateurissimo, architecture, designers, Dick Rijken, do it yourself, knowledge, mass customization, network society, open everything, remix, revolution, share, standards
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JORIS LAARMAN’S EXPERIMENTS WITH OPEN SOURCE DESIGN / GABRIELLE KENNEDY
The mediocracy of the middle classes dominates the current mass production design. In a world less controlled by branding and regulations, a new breed of designers can contribute to an altered, more honest economy. An interview with Dutch designer Joris Laarman, … 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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Remix
Remixing is something that comes from deep within us. A child learns by remixing his or her parents’ behavior. Nothing novel is so new it does not relate to anything remotely similar. Originality can be regarded a strange obstacle to … 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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Tagged activism, blueprints, community, Michelle Thorne, recycling, remix, repairing, share
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