After many months of working, I’m really proud to announce the following workshops/speechs I will give this November. I was expecting more interest in Open Design and therefore in Open P2P Design by the end of this year, but I would have never thought so much (unfortunately I had to reject a couple of invitations)! [...]

Few months ago I prepared a presentation in English about Open P2P Design and openp2pdesign.org that was not used; I remade it now and I decided to publish it as the shortest and easiest introduction to Open P2P Design methodology and the openp2pdesign.org project. You can find it in Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/openp2pdesign/what-is-open-p2p-design
What is Open P2P Design?
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Tags: Meta-design, Open Innovation, Open P2P Design, Service Design

Here are more resources on the Open Money concept, technologies and projects.
These are the tags I use on delicious to store and organize all the links about Open Money and Local Currencies:
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+money
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+open_money
http://delicious.com/openp2pdesign/open_p2p+local_currency
Some Twitter users you should follow:
http://twitter.com/openmoney
http://twitter.com/metacurrency
http://twitter.com/newcurrency
http://twitter.com/thetransitioner
http://twitter.com/fer_ananda
http://twitter.com/jfnoubel
http://twitter.com/flowplace
http://twitter.com/myrfa
http://twitter.com/zippy314

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Currency, Economy, Locality, Open Money

Beside Open Design, Open Hardware, Open Manufacturing, there is another path the Open Everything phenomenon is taking: Open Money. Although the Open Money projects are in their early steps, they represent a very important strategic and metadesign move in order to enable the spreading of community-based open and p2p organizational forms.
The open money project aims [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community, Community-Based Services, Currency, Economy, Enabler, Locality, Meta-design, Money, Open Money, Peer-to-Peer, Platform

From Michel Bauwens, here is a mindmap that presents a condensation of 3 years of his research at the P2P Foundation. The main body of the visualization contains 6 aspects of processes representing the cycle of reproduction and growth of openness in our societies:

Aspects of Openness
Enablers of Openness
Infrastructures of Openness
Open Practices
Open Domains of Practice
Open Products
Open [...]

Tags: Maps, Open Culture, Peer-to-Peer

In this post I’d like to suggest you a Creative Commons-licensed reading, to announce you an event I’m going to participate to and start an open discussion about their common subject: what will probably be the future of Industrial Design and Manufacturing, and how we can draw a map of it?
First, I suggest you reading [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Maps, Open Design, Product Design

The Story of Co-Design from thinkpublic on Vimeo.
A short and sweet animation illustrating the “Co-Design” process.

Tags: Co-Design, Design Methodology, Public Services, Service Design