Open design. RepRap general-purpose 3D printer that not only could be used to make structures and functional components for open-design projects but is an open-source project itself.
Uzebox is an open-design video game console.[1] Zoybar open source guitar kit With 3-D printed body[4] Open design is the development of physical products, machines and systems through use of publicly shared design information. Open design involves the making of both free and open-source software (FOSS) as well as open-source hardware.
Vittouris_Design-diversity.pdf. Why design cannot remain exclusive. – The Emergence of Open Design and Open Manufacturing. Michel Bauwens Readers of this magazine will be familiar with the emergence and proliferation of a new form of value creation, peer production (as first defined by Yochai Benkler), in which communities of volunteers (but also in fact mostly paid creators and programmers once a project is successfull) create (open) content or (free) software, that is usable and accessible by everybody.
Typical for peer production is that the producers create products (with both concepts being essentially misleading in this case!) In such a form that they form a commons which can be used and modified by others, who return it improved to the same common pool. Microsoft Word - collective_invention_20030804.doc - meyer.pdf. Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects.