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

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

After FluidForms (read this old post), here is another innovative Swiss company based on mass-customization and user co-created content, mShape.
And they use too multi-layered wood and computer controlled milling machines, but here complexity comes from the behaviour of the users, from their co-creation that generates “a population of tables”.
It’s not an open p2p marketplace, it’s [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Hand-craft, Mass-customization, Meta-design, Milling, Mobile, Parametric, Product Design, Switzerland, Technology

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

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: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Locality, Meta-design, Milling, Product Design, Switzerland

And the second announcement refers to the UrbanLabs 08 event, which will be held on 9-10-11 October 2008 in the Citilab-Cornellà (Barcelona), a space designed to activate, promote and expand the creative and innovative capacity in technology entrepreneurs, companies, citizens of the information and knowledge society and knowledge.
The aim of the event is to think [...]

Tags: City, Enabler, Information Society, Institutions, Locality, Open P2P Communities, Social Innovation, Spain

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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 design process thus provides the basis for developing more [...]

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