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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.
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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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THE GENERATIVE BEDROCK OF OPEN DESIGN / MICHEL AVITAL
A shift in communications infrastructure is an important factor in how open design has taken shape and the possibilities it offers. It is a transition from the ‘internet of things’ to the things of the internet. Michel Avital analyses the … Continue reading
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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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 … 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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Introduction / Marleen Stikker
The pioneers of our time are not taking the world at face value, as a given from outside; rather, they see the world as something you can pry open, something you can tinker with. Marleen Stikker In his novel The … Continue reading
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