The history of openp2pdesign.org
This website started at the beginning of 2007 as a personal website as it was intended to serve as a tool to publish and develop further Massimo Menichinelli’s graduation thesis, developed during 2005 and publicly presented on 6th of April 2006 at the Politecnico di Milano, Faculty of Design. It was a theoretical thesis developed studying the possibility of a role for design in giving support to communities, enabling them to act and improve their conditions. The starting point was the success of Open Source and Peer-to-Peer software, and specially the success of theirs community-based organizational forms.
During the following years it has grown both as a website and as a project, with more posts and more guest authors on one side, and more lectures, workshops, publications and other projects on the other side. The goal of this website is to further improve the discussion on using design tools and processes for developing proper and collaborative projects for the communities and territories that will use them.
About Massimo Menichinelli
Massimo Menichinelli is a designer who researches and develops open, collaborative, and co-design projects and the systems that enable them. He uses design tools and processes in order to help companies, organizations, cities and local communities to develop open and collaborative processes, business, services, places and projects such as FabLab and User-driven Open and Social Innovation initiatives.
Massimo has given lectures and workshops in various countries including Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore so far. While at Aalto Media Factory, he has recently worked on the development of the Aalto FabLab, the organization of the first Open Knowledge Festival and lecturing university course on digital fabrication at the Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland).
