Nervous System. Open design comes of age (3), third of a series by Massimo Menichinelli. Massimo Menichinelli (original source): In two previous posts (here and here), I started explaining that Open Design is now getting out of the underground, since many important design companies, institutions and other actors are now actively working on it. This does not mean that all the problems that we must solve in order to have a real collaborative Open Design are gone; it’s just easier now to talk about Open Design, since we have famous examples to show. With this last post I will show some important exhibitions and design festivals where Open Design has a relevant place. 04. Yves Béhar (founder of the fuseproject design agency) and famous for being the designer of the One Laptop Per Child‘s XO laptop, curated his first exhibition last year: TechnoCRAFT: Hackers, Modders, Fabbers, Tweakers, and Design in the Age of Individuality ( July 10, 2010 – October 3, 2010, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, USA). crowdsourcingplatformsblueprintshacksincompletesmodules 05. 06.
Emerging ‘new economy’ networks in the U.S. Excerpted from Gar Alperovitz in Yes magazine: (original with many links) “Along with the rapid expansion of small and medium-size businesses committed to building the new economy has come a sense of community and shared mission. Staff, managers and owners at many of these companies are finding more opportunities to share ideas and pool resources with like-minded professionals. The American Sustainable Business Council, a growing alliance of 150,000 business professionals and thirty business organizations, has emerged as a leading venue for such activity. In many ways the council operates like any advocacy group attempting to lobby, educate and promote legislation and strategies. The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), made up of more than 22,000 small businesses, is another rapidly growing organization that works to strengthen new-economy networks.
NEI is teaming up with other organizations, like the progressive think tank Demos, on several projects. Two interviews on open design and economical sustainability. Open design, co-design and p2p production are influencing not only the way we think about designing and making things but also the way we approach economical sustainability, supply chain and business models. In the past weeks Massimo Menichinelli interviewed us (Bertram Niessen and me) on Openwear and Peter Toxler on some issues regarding these topics and it’s worth it to reblog here: Openwear.org (Zoe Romano + Bertram Niessen) interview about DIY Craft / Fashion Microproductions Openwear is the new open source concept and community in course of developing by EDUfashion, a two-year project for the development of a collaborative platform for fashion creation and continuous education emphasizing skill-sharing and ethical branding.
In this post I’m going to interview two of Openwear’s members, Zoe Romano and Bertram Niessen. Massimo Menichinelli:The phenomena of Open Hardware, DIY and Makers have reached a remarkable level of development, fame and reputation. 01. 2. Open design comes of age (2), second of a series by Massimo Menichinelli. Massimo Menichinelli (original source here): In a previous post, I started explaining that Open Design is now getting out of the underground, since many important design companies, institutions and sci-fi writers are now actively working on it.
This does not mean that all the problems that we must solve in order to have a real collaborative Open Design are gone; it’s just easier now to talk about Open Design, since we have famous examples to show. With this post I will show other important examples coming from the Netherlands (other examples will be shown in a third and last post). 03. 01 (Un)limited Design contest The first Open Design competition, (Un)limited Design Contest, was held in 2009 and 2010, in first instance in The Netherlands, in the second year also in Germany and Belgium.
To enter the competition, anyone could either submit a new design or make a derivative of an existing design submitted by others by using the machines in a Fab Lab or any other prototyping facility.