Introduction / Marleen Stikker
The pioneers of our time are not taking the world at face value, as a given from outside; rather, they see the world as something you can pry open, something you can tinker with. Marleen Stikker In his...
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Manifestos
Openness is still very much a choice, not a default. If it were a default, there would be no need for directions, ideological or not. Ideological efforts need rules, codes of conduct, manuals, bills,...
View ArticleREDESIGNING DESIGN / JOS DE MUL
Open design is not a clear and unambiguous development or practice. Jos de Mul names a few of the problems he perceives with open design, without venturing to suggest any indication of how they might...
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LIBRARIES OF THE PEER PRODUCTION ERA / PETER TROXLER
Mapping the landscape of commons-based peer production, Peter Troxler analyses the arena of open source hardware and looks into various initiatives being spawned by fabrication labs, trying to identify...
View ArticleTHE BEGINNING OF A BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING OF A TREND / PETER TROXLER
This portrait of open designer Ronen Kadushin reveals his vision of ‘opening’ industrial design and putting the designer firmly back in the centre of the design process. It tells of successful examples...
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JORIS LAARMAN’S EXPERIMENTS WITH OPEN SOURCE DESIGN / GABRIELLE KENNEDY
The mediocracy of the middle classes dominates the current mass production design. In a world less controlled by branding and regulations, a new breed of designers can contribute to an altered, more...
View ArticleDO IT WITH DROOG / ROEL KLAASSEN, PETER TROXLER
Renny Ramakers talks about Droog’s latest project Downloadable Design, about making money, designing for the masses, the development of the design profession, and Droog Design’s recent experiments and...
View ArticleLEARNING BY DOING / MUSHON ZER-AVIV
Mushon Zer-Aviv describes his efforts to teach open source design as an attempt to investigate why collaborative work combined with individual autonomy has not been common practice in design, as it is...
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