I’d like to suggest you two events that are going to happen this week, even though I’m not involved in them and I won’t be able to attend them, unfortunately.

The first one is the Open Source 2010. Architecture as an open culture seminar that will take place in Porto (Portugal), on Saturday 12th of June from 14.30 to 20.00 at Casa da Música.

This is the complete list of the participants at the seminar:

• Cecil Balmond
• Hans-Ulrich Obrist
• Tomás Saraceno
• Sanford Kwinter
• Ron Eglash
• António Adão da Fonseca
• Rubedo
• Overworld

You can still win two tickets on the Arkinet.com website, leaving your comment about what open source for architecture means for you.
And if you are going to attend this seminar, please don’t forget to go to Coimbra on June 14th for the Arquibio 2010 conference and workshops.

The second one will be in Berlin, at the International Design Festival DMY Berlin from 9-13 June 2010: the DMY Maker Lab for Open Design, supported by Berlin Beta Collective, Open Design City, Betahaus, Palomar 5, Premsela, Waag Society, and DMY, it is kindly sponsored by Etsy, DutchDFA, and Becks.

The DMY Maker Lab will be a celebration of Open Design through practice, presentations, and collaborative action, created by instigators and participants alike.

These are the main events that will take place there (go to the original website for full details, time and place):

• Open Design Mindscapes – The exploration of Open Design starts with ongoing collaborative discussions at the centre of the event.
• Iterative Process – Iterative Process is a quick guide to Open Design. The sessions, no matter your design experience, will be about creating, reinterpreting, building upon or retrofitting objects fabricated and shared during the Maker Lab. We will provide you with tips, tools and materials (please see details) so you can explore, produce and present during the Festival.
• (Un)limited Design Contest – Started last year, (Un)limited Design Contest is an experiment in open design. Participants can submit original designs or copy and adapt other participants’ entries to the contest. This year’s themes for the contest include Form, Food, Fashion and Fusion.
• Home Manufacturing – Home manufacturing blends the old and the new, an exploration of both forgotten arts, and new processes. Taking production techniques and reclaiming them as our own. Home manufacturing is an opportunity to access materials and production without expensive machines and state of the art technology.
• Electronics – Perhaps the starting point for the Open Design movement, Open Source electronics was once the preserve of hackers. In our electronics thread we aim to make these processes and tools available for you to learn, engage and create.
• Documentation of the event – A core component of Open Design process is documentation, which is essential to enable others to access your designs, processes and techniques. We shall be exploring new and tested processes over the course of the event to iterate the documentation process itself.
• Make Something Happen – The above events are to get you started, to get you thinking about Open Design and collaboration, we have one space filled with skills, tools and processes for 5 days at an international festival. We now want you to come and participate and join in the fun. Do something different, bring along your lego, swap recipes, blow plastics, bring something you wish to work with, or something that you think someone else might like to work with.

This event follows another Open Design Workshop that was held in Berlin some months ago:

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Delivered in Beta
an immediated autodocumentary

How are social media changing design? What is the value of a prototype? How are work and play merging? Where is design headed in the 21st century? “Delivered in Beta” begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation (twitter hashtag #od10beta)

conceived and edited by Gabriel Shalom
photo editing and titles by Patrizia Kommerell
produced by KS12 ( http://www.ks12.net )