Hello all, A quick note that the new Open Design Working Group [1] has just been launched by the OKFN with the cooperation of Massimo Mechinelli (Aalto Media Factory in Helsinki) and Primavera De Filippi (CERSA/CNRS, Paris) - and we'd love to have your involvement as it takes its first steps as a community!
With this working group, we aim to unite designers with open knowledge practitioners across various facets (from design as a blueprint to design as process to design as an artifact) and applications (product design, graphic design, fashion design, service design, interior design, architecture, hardware, data visualisation) to discuss issues related to intellectual property, business models and definitions of open practices. We feel that because there is still not a shared (and updated) definition of what Open Design is, there remains a need to discuss, debate, workshop and conceptualise together as designers across boundaries for our work to have full societal impact. As a working group, we will aim to act as a central point of reference for the development of Open Design in theory and in practice by organising workshops, curating collections of existing open material and developing domain-specific guides. We will collaborate with designers, artists, hackers and makers across the spectrum of the field as a hub for low cost, community-driven projects around Open Design. We are also planning on being involved with the Future Everything's FAB* Summit [2] in Manchester this May and helping coordinate an Open Design stream at the Open Knowledge Festival [3] in Helsinki, so it would be great to have your involvement and ideas in this process! If you're interested in becoming a part of this initiative, please introduce yourself on our new Open Design discussion list [4] which we'll be using to discuss ideas, events and first steps in the next few weeks. Thanks so much, and we look forward to building new links together through design! [1] http://design.okfn.org/ [2] http://fabstar.org/2012/03/05/fab-futureeverything-manchester/ [3] http://okfestival.org [4] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/opendesign -------------------------------------------------------------- | Kat Braybrooke | Community Coordinator | Global Chapters and OKFestival | Open Knowledge Foundation | London | OKFN.org | Twitter @kat_braybrooke _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
