I’m very honoured to say that Michel Bauwens invited me to write a contribution for the P2P Foundation Blog, and here you can find it: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/massimo-menichinelli-open-p2p-design-as-enabling-open-p2p-systems/2008/11/24

It’s a resume of the Open P2P Design history and concept, and of its differences from Open Design as well.

While Open Design focuses on opening a design project, Open P2P Design focuses on building a community or social system that follows Open P2P principles and organizational forms in order to put in practice a collaborative activity that generates Open Innovations. With Open Design we offer a design project to an Open P2P social system; with Open P2P Design we co-design and enable an Open P2P social system. Not just open processes and open contents, but also peer-to-peer relationships.

Open P2P Design does not refer to a project (intended as the outcome, the object of a design activity), but it refers instead to the design process and tools that can be used to develop that project; Open P2P Design does not refer to a specific innovation, but it refers to the way we can set up and facilitate collaborative processes that develop the innovations. With Open P2P Design, we don’t design the solutions, but the tools and processes a social system, a community, a collective intelligence can use in order to find its own proper solutions.

It is a very important step for me; first, for the importance of the P2P Foundation, and secondly, for the opportunity to summarize and present the Open P2P Design concept to a wider audience.