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 the first post and second post about Open Architectural Design at MIT, here you can find a thesis about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) developed by Kalaya Kovidvisith at MIT and submitted on June 2007: “Open Source Building Alliance Ecology. The Internet Framework for Consumer Driven Participative Design”.
The primary purpose of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Community, Mass-customization, Technology

After the first post about the MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) project, here is another one reporting the paper that started the project, written by Larson K., Intille S., McLeish T.J., Beaudin J., Williams R. E.1 .

In this paper, we argue that new technologies and strategies for design can enable a more responsive [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Business/Service, Mass-customization

I’ve just discovered that people at MIT are studying how to develop Open Source Houses and therefore Open Architectural Design projects.
MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) is a project run by the House_n department, and it will operate as an open source organization. A website will be established for idea generation, technical evaluation of [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Distributed Generation, High-tech, Mass-customization, Technology