After a very long work, openp2pdesign.org version 1.1 is ready, both in its website form and in its book form!
Starting in February of 2007 with the initial idea to publish my master degree thesis and further study these subjects, we reached now a first milestone.
openp2pdesig.org version 1.1
In the past one year and half my skills [...]

Tags: Activity Theory, Aesthetics, Design Methodology, Enabler, Internet, Open P2P Communities, Open P2P Design, Service Design

I’m very happy to say that a Design Research Initiative that influenced me very much during the development of my thesis has been selected among the finalist projects for the most important Italian Design Award.

EMUDE (Emerging User Demands for Sustainable Solutions) was a programme of activities funded by the European Commission, the aim of [...]

Tags: Community, Design, Design Research, Italy, Locality, Participation, Social Innovation, Sustainability

While reading some of my favourite blogs, I stumbled upon two examples of Web 2.0 services that enable people to redesign products or, way better, that crowdsource the redesign process. The first one is RedesignMe.com: Open Innovation in Product Creation

RedesignMe aims to improve the products and services around us by collectively rethinking bad products into [...]

Tags: Crowdsourcing, Design, Web 2.0

The concept of Open Hardware arrived even on the Economist’s pages too.

Companies, for their part, say an open approach can help them get to market quickly with products that give customers what they want—without the need for market research. Such advantages, they say, outweigh the drawbacks of exposing what are usually seen as corporate secrets.

In [...]

Tags: Economy, Open Hardware

One of the key point of Open P2P Design is that the designer/s should become an enabler of the creativity that lays in a community/system. I will write something more about this theme in the future (a very long post is under construction), but for the moment I’d like to suggest you a brief [...]

Tags: Enabler, Generative system, Locality, Product Design

The news of the publication of VIA OpenBook’s CAD files has spread rapidly in the web. It is worth now to read some thoughts and quotes that Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation published in the Foundation Blog.
Citing various sources, Bauwens notices how the openness of this project is actually very limited (CAD files relate solely [...]

Tags: Open Hardware, Product Design, Technology

After the first example of a real Open Design mass product, we have now another example like this, showing us how Open Business strategies are understood and spreaded now. VIA Technologies, the world’s largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets, from Taiwan, published in the last week the CAD files of his last product: the notebook [...]

Tags: Product Design, Technology