Category:Design
Tools exist to give the developing world the capacity to build its own technology, to its own needs, and grow richer and more sustainable in the process. Those tools are the tools of collaboration. Open the source code of innovation, and we'll change the planet.
- Alex Steffen [1]
IntroductionThis site is dedicated to the pioneers of peer to peer inspired physical production: Franz Nahrada, Marcin Jakubowski and Amy B. Smith. We also dedicate these pages to the memory of Lawrence J. Rhoades, pioneer of distributed digital production, who passed away last year. The category was originally proposed and constructed by Franz Nahrada, and aims to encompass every form of design, including of hardware (i.e. Free Hardware Design) and physical production, that can benefit from peer production and open design methodologies. Goals: the larger context is how to handle a broad shift from centralized, high capital production to decentralized, low capital production, preferably based on Open Designs in order to generate Attainable Utopias. Our aims are therefore also congruent with the Open Sustainability Network movement, as expressed in the Appropriate Technology platform. The P2P Foundation supports the aims of the Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance [2] , an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. Therefore, this section will be:
For a narrower focus on actually "making things", see our subset section on Open and Distributed Manufacturing For beginners:
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Visualizations
- A visualization of the Future of Production by the Institute of the Future
Also: The integrated open design and manufacturing process, a poster by Thomas Lommee at http://IntraStructures.net/yes_we_re_open.pdf
Below are the guiding principles of this integrated vision:
- In a networked society, Investment is about sharing beliefs, leading towards decentralised financing platforms.
- In a networked society, Design is about sharing ideas, leading towards a common design vocabulary.
- In a networked society, Production is about sharing tools and workshops, leading towards flexible, small-scale production
- In a networked society, Retail is about sharing interests, leading towards a reconnection between makers and buyers.
- In a networked society, Consumption is about sharing experiences, leading towards customer-driven innovation.
- In a networked society, Recycling is about sharing materials, leading towards closed material cycles
Other visualizations
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Product Cycle by Simone Cicero, background information
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Standards
Tools and Design platforms
Miscellaneous
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Articles
Books* The Bleeding Edge. Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World. By Bob Hughes. New Internationalist Books, 2016 [6] See also:
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Companies
Conferences
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Podcasts (Audio)Selection from our full Podcasts Directory:
SoftwareFrom a list of software OEM's maintained by Fab Wiki:
Webcasts (Video)
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Long QuotesHere are more Open Design Aphorisms See also: Quotes on P2P-Driven and Commons-Centric Design
Daniel Christian Wahl on Salutogenic DesignDaniel Christian Wahl:
"In 2006, my doctoral research concluded that if the basic intention behind all human design was salutogenesis, we would be able to facilitate a local and global shift towards sustainability (Wahl, 2006b). Valerie Brown lists two criteria that should guide human behaviour if we hope to avoid serious damage to the natural processes that maintain systemic health. We need to i) “consume nature’s flows while conserving the stocks (that is, live off the ‘interest’ while conserving natural capital” and ii) “increase society’s stocks (human resources, civil institutions) and limit the flow of material and energy” (Brown et al., 2005). Both are central aspects of a regenerative culture. Salutogenic design aims to facilitate the emergence of health at and across all scales of the whole. It recognizes the inextricable link between human, ecosystem and planetary health. Rather than primarily focusing on the relief of symptoms of disease or ill-health, this approach tries to promote positive health and a flourishing of the whole. In other words, the aim of salutogenic design is to support healthy individuals in healthy communities acting responsibly in healthy societies to nurture and maintain healthy ecosystem functioning as the basis for healthy bioregions and ultimately a healthy biosphere. Scale-linking, salutogenic design aims to create resilient and regenerative systems at and across all scales." (https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/scale-linking-salutogenic-design-for-resilience-1485a0005e00)
Daniel Fraga: Technology is about designing subjects"Today, technology allows us a new form of design: one that designs subjects, not objects; people, not things. By designing the information someone consumes, we can frame their opinions. By designing the interactions they have with digital devices, we can frame their thinking. This is known by not only tech giants but by military intelligence. And now, it is time that it becomes known by designers - especially those at the vanguard of dying paradigms. Our environments, our tools and even our ideas are extensions of ourselves. Our clothes extend our skin’s ability to keep our body warm, and our glasses improve our eye’s ability to see. This is simple enough. But what about language, or the internet? What does it do to us? How do they extend our humanity? More importantly: can we design that extension? In this century, algorithmically powered ontological design will radically reinvent what “human” means. It will not only be used to create “better” humans, but to redesign the very concepts of “better” itself, disrupting the values of the old world order and kickstarting a struggle for the new. Creatively terrifying designs are becoming possible." - Daniel Fraga [10]
Marcin Jakubowski on open access to digital designopen access to digital design – perhaps in the form a global repository of shared open source designs - introduces a unique contribution to human prosperity. This contribution is the possibility that data at one location in the world can be translated immediately to a product in any other location. This means anyone equipped with flexible fabrication capacity can be a producer of just about any manufactured object. The ramifications for localization of economies are profound, and leave the access to raw material feedstocks as the only natural constraint to human prosperity. - Marcin Jakubowski
"When intellectual problems become distributed, the search for solutions becomes collaborative and the research agenda is driven not by multinational shareholders but by the passions of the participants, you get not just better results, you get different results." - Alec Steffens [11]
Linus Torvalds on Open Peer to Peer Design"“I think the real issue about adoption of open source is that nobody can really ever “design” a complex system. That’s simply not how things work: people aren’t that smart - nobody is. And what open source allows is to not actually “design” things, but let them evolve, through lots of different pressures in the market, and having the end result just continually improve." (http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/archives/43)
Agroblogger on a Appropriate Technology General Public License"Let us imagine an active online community participating in vibrant discussions and sharing of Appropriate Technology plans and experiences. Let us imagine the AT equivalent of a sourceforge.net, a place where designers and field workers can go to download plans of greenhouses, beehives, water pumps, animal traction implements, and biodiesel equipment. And, within the legal framework of an AT General Public License (GPL), those plans can be used freely, modified, and republished under the same AT GPL. IRC channels dedicated to specific programmatic areas could serve as a dynamic forum where "newbies" can gain wisdom and insight from experienced field practitioners." (Agroblogger [12])
Karim Lakhani on Communities driving Manufacturers out of the design phase"for any given company - there are more people outside the company that have smarts about a particular technology or a particular use situation then all the R&D engineers combined. So a community around a product category may have more smart people working on the product then the firm it self. So in the end manufacturers may end up doing what they are supposed to - manufacture - and the design activity might move to the edge and into the community." (http://www.futureofcommunities.com/2007/03/25/communities-driving-manufacturers-out-of-the-design-space/)
Kevin Kelly and Terry Hancock on nearly-free material production"Material industries are finding that the costs of duplication near zero, so they too will behave like digital copies. Maps just crossed that threshold. Genetics is about to. Gadgets and small appliances (like cell phones) are sliding that way. Pharmaceuticals are already there, but they don't want anyone to know. It costs nothing to make a pill." (http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/01/better_than_fre.php)
Vinay Gupta on Open Source Design for Development"An open library of designs for refrigerators, lighting, heating, cooling, motors, and other systems will encourage manufacturers, particularly in the developing world, to leapfrog directly to the most sustainable technologies, which are much cheaper in the long run. Manufacturers will be encouraged to use the efficient designs because they are free, while inefficient designs still have to be paid for. The library could also include green chemistry and biological solutions to industry challenges, for example enzymatic reactions that could be used in place of energy, and chemical-intensive processes or nontoxic paint pigments for cars and buildings. This library should be free of all intellectual property restrictions and open for use by any manufacturer, in any nation, without charge." (http://www.guptaoption.com/5.open_source_development.php)
Steve Bosserman outlines what is most appropriate for local distributed manufacturing"strong candidates for a locally distributed manufacturing approach include ANYTHING that is agriculturally- based like food, feed, fiber, and biofuel production, much of housing and building construction including the manufacturing of inputs used in that industry, localized electric power generation using non-bio sources like wind, solar, and geothermal, and production / manufacturing of materials, components, and assemblies that use locally sourced raw materials and draw upon open-source, relatively easy to learn, appropriate technologies that can be applied in a wide range of situations-- not just a single product."
Marcin Jakubowski on Neosubsistence"Neosubsistence is the term we apply to a lifestyle where people produce tangible (physical) wealth, as opposed to dealing with information in the information economy. We are talking about basics: even though we live in the information economy, we cannot deny the reality that human prosperity is founded on the provision of physical needs upon which the meeting of all higher needs is predicated. Neosubsistence is related to the information economy in that the information economy is a foundation for neosubsistence"
John Thackara on the importance of design for sustainability"Eighty per cent of the environmental impact of today's products, services and infrastructures is determined at the design stage. Design decisions shape the processes behind the products we use, the materials and energy required to make them, the ways we operate them and what happens to them when we no longer need them." (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007654.html)
Eric von Hippel on Manufacturing around User Innovation Communities"Threadless has tapped into a fundamental economic shift, a movement away from passive consumerism. One day in the not-too-distant future citizen inventors using computer design programs and three-dimensional printers will exchange physical prototypes in much the same way Nickell and cohorts played Photoshop tennis. Eventually, Threadless-like communities could form around industries as diverse as semiconductors, auto parts, and toys. Threadless is one of the first firms to systematically mine a community for designs, but everything is moving in this direction. He foresees research labs and product-design divisions at manufacturing companies being outstripped by an "innovation commons" made up of tinkerers, hackers, and other devout customers freely sharing their ideas. The companies that win will be the ones that listen." (quotes and paraphrased by Inc. [14])
Frank Piller on User Manufacturing"User manufacturing is enabled by three main technologies: (1) Easy-to-operate design software that allows users to transfer their ideas into a design. (2) Design repositories where users upload, search, and share designs with other users. This allows a community of loosely connected users to develop a large range of applications. (3) Easy-to-access flexible manufacturing technology. New rapid manufacturing technologies ("fabbing") finally deliver the dream of translating any 3-D data files into physical products -- even in you living room. Combining this technology with recent web technologies can open a radical new way to provide custom products along the entire "long tail" of demand. User manufacturing builds on the notion that users are not just able to configure a good within the given solution space (mass customization), but also to develop such a solution space by their own and utilize it by producing custom products. As a result, customers are becoming not only co-designers, but also manufacturers, using an infrastructure provided by some specialized companies." (http://mass-customization.blogs.com/mass_customization_open_i/2007/11/webinar-the-nex.html)
Jeff Bezos on User-Manufacturing Everything"Before long, “user-generated content” won’t refer only to media, but to just about anything: user-generated jeans, user-generated sports cars, user-generated breakfast meals. This is because setting up a company that designs, makes and globally sells physical products could become almost as easy as starting a blog - and the repercussions would be earthshaking. " (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2006-11-21-amazon-user-generated-products_x.htm)
Flexible Manufacturing and the Maker Movement"Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences— the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections." (http://iftf.org/node/1766)
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Short CitationsThe reality for advanced design today is dominated by three ideas: distributed, plural, collaborative. It is no longer about one designer, one client, one solution, one place. - Bruce Mau (cited in Getting Results from Crowds, p. 171)
- Sheen S. Levine [15] In the 21st century economy, it isn't factories and it isn't people that make things. It's communities. - Eben Moglen [16]
- Willard McCarty [17]
- Clay Shirky [http://finance. groups.yahoo.com/group/decentralization/message/6967]
- (http://opensource.org/node/169)
- Marshall McLuhan [18] MoreMarvin Brown on Civic Design: "When people say, ”We have seen the problem and the problem is us,” they deceive themselves. We are not the problem. The problem is one of design. Our current design of how we live together in unjust and unsustainable, and it is still controlled by commercial conversations without any moral foundation. Those who control financial markets are sovereign. If we expand and protect civic conversations we may, in time, participate in the solution—an economy based on civic norms making provisions for this and future generations." (http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com/2011/12/what-is-a-citizen-and-the-civic/)
Design by the People, for the People"We know it will only get better but in the meantime the open source/DIY/hacking wave has already achieved a major success, that of cementing the centrality of the common good. The process begins with a community, a group whose homogeneity is no longer described by historical definers of age, gender, race, class, region or religion but rather by a shared interest or passion and ends in another, only to begin again through the way the product is used, adapted, disposed of and maybe even celebrated in its afterlife. In the past, reaching the "consumer" with a finished product meant reaching the terminus of the design process. But that was the time, to paraphrase Ilse Crawford ... when we, designers, used to design for them, consumers. Those rancid old times have gone. We now design for us, people with people for people." [19] - Paola Antonelli |
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Pages in category "Design"
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- Adafruit Industries
- Additive Fabrication
- Advanced Automation
- Advanced Civilisation
- Agata Jaworska on the Design for Download Project
- Agua Clara
- AKVO
- Alastair Fuad-Luke
- Alastair Parvin on Wikihouse's Open Source Architecture
- Alex Haw on Open Source Design
- Alex Lindsay on Digital Craftsmen for Development
- Algorithmic Sustainable Design
- Allison Clark on Tinkering as a Mode of Knowledge Production
- Amy Smith
- Analysis of Open Collaboration between Experience Design and Poietic Practice
- Andres Monroy-Hernandez on Designing for Remixing
- Andrew Bowyer on the RepRap Project and Self-replicating Machines
- Android
- Andy McDonald
- Anil Gupta on Appropriate Technology for Agroinnovations
- Anna Brodskaya on the Global Redesign Initiative for a Resource-Based Economy
- Appropedia
- Appropriate Technology
- Aral Balkan
- Aral Balkan on Ethical Design
- Architecture Design Sharing
- Architecture of Open Source Applications
- Architecture of Resistance
- Arcology
- Arduino
- Arduino and Open Source Design
- Artificial General Intelligence
- At the Turning Point of the Current Techno-Economic Paradigm
- Aurora Mixer
- Auroville
- Automake
- Automated Infrastructure
- AVR Butterfly Logger
- AVR Butterfly MP3
- Awareness Design
- AX84 Firefly
- Ayah Bdeir on littleBits
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- Becommoning Design Framework
- Beehive Design Collective
- Belize Open Source
- Best of Instructables
- Best Practices of Open Source Mechanical Hardware
- Beth Kolko on the effect of Hackers and ProduSers on Creativity and Consumerism
- Better Be Running
- Bibliography on Open Design and Distributed Manufacturing
- Bio-Inspired Design
- Biohacking
- Biomimicry
- Bjarke Ingels on Open Source Design
- Bluespec
- Bram Crevits
- Bre Pettis on Rapid Prototyping
- Bret Victor on Design Tools for Makerspaces as Communal Spaces
- Bricolabs
- Bricoleur
- Bruce Sterling on Industrial Products And Ubiquity
- Bruce Sterling's Update on "Shaping Things"
- Bryan Bishop
- Buckminster Fuller on Anticipatory Design
- BUG
- Bug Labs
- Build It Solar
- Burdastyle
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- C,mm,n
- CAD for Personal Manufacturing
- Callooh
- Cameron Sinclair on Open Source Architecture
- CandyFab Project
- Canuckle
- Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine
- Cecilia Palmer and Otto von Busch on the Fashion Reloaded Project
- Centre for Collective Intelligence Design
- CEO Guide To Making Prototypes for 3D Printing
- Charles Collis
- Charline Ducas, Alysia Garmulewicz and Mike Werner on Safe and Circular Materials Design
- Charrette
- Chris Sprigman on Copyright in Fashion Design
- Chris Watkins
- Chris Watkins on Changing the World through Free Content
- Christophe Vaillant
- Christopher Hoadley on Indigenous Technology Design
- Chumby
- Cindy Kohtala
- Circus Foundation
- CIS Open Design Report
- Citations on Open and Shared Design and Open and Distributed Manufacturing
- Citizen Engineer
- Citizen Product Design
- Civic Design
- Clear Village
- Closed Hardware
- Closure Engineering
- Cluster Theory of Open Source Economics
- CNC
- CNC Embroidery
- CNC Milling
- Co-Creation
- Co-Creation Landscape
- Co-Design
- Co-Design Processes
- CO-LLABS
- CoCreate
- Codename Prometheus
- CoDesign International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts
- Collaborative Design, Open Innovation and Public Policy
- Collaborative Goods
- Collaborative Production in the Material and Digital World
- Collaborative Virtual Environments and Immersion in Distributed Engineering Contexts
- Collective Customer Commitment
- Collective Invention
- Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure
- Commons Governance in Design
- Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression in Greece
- Community Supported Manufacturing
- Community Workshops
- Community-Curated Design
- Compensated Open Source Innovation for All
- Comprehensive Cooperative Township
- Computer-Aided Design Software
- Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative
- Consumer Mass Customization
- Consumer-Led Product Design
- Contour Crafting
- Contract Manufacturer
- Contraptor
- Coop DiscoTech
- Cooperative Cycles
- Cosmopolitan Localism
- CoSpaces
- Cost of Small-Scale vs. Large-Scale Manufacturing
- Craig Newmark on Customer Co-development at Craigslist
- Creative Commons in Open Design
- Creative Communities
- Creativity in Fashion and Digital Culture
- Criteria for Determining the Ethics of Artefacts
- Critical Political Economy of Design
- Critical Wine
- Crowdsourced Advertising
- Crowdsourced Brainstorming
- Crowdsourced Car Engineering
- Crowdsourced Design
- Crowdsourced Design Management Platforms
- Crowdsourced Product Design
- Crowdsourcing - Discussion
- Crowdsourcing Fashion
- Cuality
- Cultural Design
- Culture Design
- Culture Design Labs
- Cut and Sew Construction
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- Daisy MP3 Player
- Damanhur
- DARPA's Open Process Research Strategy
- Dave Vondle on Re-Examining Design for Open-Source Hardware
- David Lee and Valerie Wilson on the the Open Source Green Vehicle Project
- David Mellis
- David Orban and Roberto Ostinelli on Open Spime
- David Rowe on Open Hardware Business Models
- David Seamon on the Relational Dynamics between Humans and their Built Environment
- Debate on Collective Design for the Open Source City
- Decentralized Infrastructure
- Decentralized Tuscan Villages
- Decentralized Urban Farming
- Deep Craft Manifesto
- Defining a Post-Industrial Style
- Defining Post-Industrial Design
- Delivered in Beta
- Dell Idea Storm
- Democratic Design for the Online Economy
- Design
- Design 21
- Design Accountability
- Design and architecture as sustainable platform building
- Design as Activism
- Design Break
- Design Discourse
- Design Factory Global Network
- Design for a Living Planet
- Design for a Post-Neoliberal City
- Design for Disassembly
- Design for Do-It-Yourself Production
- Design for Download
- Design for Services
- Design for Socially Shaped Innovation
- Design for Sustainability Is Inherently Participatory
- Design Global, Manufacture Local
- Design Imperative