Category proposed by Franz Nahrada

encompassing everything from visual design, fashion design to hardware design.

Goals: 1) monitoring the progress towards a world of constant social innovation based on open designs; 2) monitoring the expansion of open sourcing in the physical world

=Resource pages

http://freie-projekte-netz.de/fhv/index.php German collection by category

http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Design Delicious tag monitoring the same topic

Citations

"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 [1])

"When people talked about innovation in the '90s, they really meant technology. When people talk about innovation in this decade, they really mean design." (http://opensource.org/node/169)