After the first movie and the second one, here’s the third one: RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, a 2008 open source documentary film about the “the changing concept of copyright” directed by Brett Gaylor.
The main website is here and you can download a remix the source code of this documentary on Open Source Cinema:

Open Source Cinema [...]

Tags: Cinema, copyright, intellectual property, Movie Design, Music, Open Source

After the first movie, here is another one, that maybe you have already discovered while reading the Wikipedia page of Revolution OS. It’s “The Code”, a Finnish-made documentary about Linux from 2001, featuring some of the most influential people of the free software movement. It’s in English with Finnish subtitles (and some small parts are [...]

Tags: Free Software, history, intellectual property, Internet, Linux, Open Source, Technology

Back from the November tour and a change of server, rigth now I’m working on opening new sections in openp2pdesign.org, on redesigning the theme and the structure of the whole website and on opening openp2pdesign.org to more participants. As you may understand with this post, I will post only in English now, because it takes [...]

Tags: copyright, Free Software, hacker, hacking, history, Information Society, intellectual property, Internet, Open Source, Technology

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

Back from I Realize 09, we are still busy finishing the maps we developed there; meanwhile, you can watch the web tv of the event here where you can choose each single panel (or read a review of the event here, in Italian).
Here’s instead the video of the I Grow – Design panel I participated [...]

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

C.STEM 2008 explores a scenario where the designer ability of writing custom software becomes the tool to connect the potential of digital fabrication to an ever growing demand of mass customized goods. Infinite variations, generated by open projects/processes, enquire the role and creative thinking of post-industrial designers.
The event featured an exhibition and two days of [...]

Tags: Design, Fabbing, Generative system, Manufacturing