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

Since some months, I’m working on a small book in my spare time. It will contain the synthesis of my thesis in a book form and in three languages (English, Italian and Spanish), and I will release it with a Creative Commons licence on this website, on my Scribd page and on lulu.com where you [...]

Planeta Web 2.0

Cobo Romaní, Cristóbal; Pardo Kuklinski, Hugo. 2007. Planeta Web 2.0. Inteligencia colectiva o medios fast food. Grup de Recerca d’Interaccions Digitals, Universitat de Vic. Flacso México. Barcelona / México DF.
Versión 0.1
http://www.planetaweb2.net/

The first book about Web 2.0 I suggested to you was composed of three different perspectives, while this one is more organic and [...]

Tags: Spain, Web 2.0

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These Open Peer-to-Peer design steps should be considered more as guidelines than a complete methodology: we should apply them, test them, study them more (as in research as in practice).
And this is the right time to study [...]

Tags: Bottom of the Pyramid, Business/Service, Design Methodology, Design Research, Innovation, Knowledge Economy, Local Services

Participation matrix of the different phases of the design process

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Unlike a traditional, linear, design process, Open Peer-to-Peer Design is non-linear and characterized by multiple parallell processes because of the large number of agents and their interactions. An Open Peer-to-Peer [...]

Tags: Community, Complexity, Design Methodology, Enabler, Open P2P Communities, Participation, Platform, Self-Organization, Service Design, Social Network Analysis

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Once we define the platform, it is possible to comprehend what, effectively, a designer can design for an Open Peer-to-Peer community. It still remains to define how this project plan can be carried out holding account of the complexity of the [...]

Tags: Complexity, Design Methodology, Enabler, Institutions, Linux, Open P2P Communities