At openp2pdesign.org we study and write about the development and implications of Design processes and tools for communities, localities and Open projects. Started by Massimo Menichinelli in 2005, this project has been growing with many publications, tools, worldwide events and workshops regarding the use of Design for enabling collaborative communities and Open projects like Open Design, Open Business, Open Data, Open Government.
Open P2P Design was the starting point of this project and it is a community-centered design methodology for co-designing with a community open and p2p organizational forms with an open and p2p design process. It’s a way to co-design a collaborative activity with/for a community that can use it for self-organizing itself and solve its specific problems.
Open P2P Design
Open P2P Design is a community-centered design methodology for co-designing with a community open and p2p organizational forms with an open and p2p design process. It’s a way to co-design a collaborative activity with/for a community that can use it for self-organizing itself and solve its specific problems. Open P2P Design starts from Service Design and it’s aimed at collaborative activities, and therefore it can be applied to a broad range of activities: public services and policies (Open Government), enterprises (Enterprise 2.0 and Open Business) or Design (Open Design).
The main idea behind Open P2P Design is that technology, tools and the sharing of information alone are not enough for setting up successful open organizations, and that we can co-design such open organizations, tools and technologies with the active participation of communities.
Blog Posts
At openp2pdesign.org we study and write about the development and implications of Design for communities, localities and Open projects (Open Design, Open Business, Open Data, Open Government, …). We especially look at how to co-design, implement and deliver such Open projects, looking at the same time at the development of the design process, the development of the social networks of the community and the development of the business models that make such Open projects sustainable.
We publish and share all these researches here under a Creative Commons license, in order to foster a collaborative discussion on these topics. You are also welcome to become an author and publish in this blog as well! Please contact us for becoming an author.
Sources
On the Source page you can find all the resources of openp2pdesign.org that are not stored with a version control system and are not part of a collaborative project.
On Delicious you can find all the links stored during our researches.
For collaborative projects developed with Subversion as a version control system please go to the Workshop page.
For all the projects developed with Git and GitHub you can go on the GitHub page.
Services
Events, Lectures and Workshops
We can give a lecture or workshop about Digital Fabrication, FabLabs, Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Business, Social Network Analysis and Community Building.
Start a FabLab or a community hub
We can help you design, launch and run a FabLab, or a similar digital fabrication community place with a co-design process and social network analysis.
Co-design collaborative service and products
We can help you design and launch a collaborative digital service, based on collaboration, sharing, open source and p2p dynamics with social network analysis.
Open Source consultancy
We can help you in designing, launching and running Open Source and Open Innovation initiatives and strategies in any field and based on community analysis.