Category proposed by Franz Nahrada

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

Goals: the larger context is how to handle a broad shift from centralized, high capital production to decentralized, low capital production

Therefore, this section will be:

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

And monitor the field of emerging solutions in the field of social organization such as Global Villages and Localization trends.

Introductory Articles

1. In peer production, the interests of capitalists and entrepreneurs are no longer aligned

Resource pages

The Open Source Product Design platform has a list of Open Design projects

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

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 [1])

Others

"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)