Dopo molti mesi di lavoro e organizzazione, sono veramente orgoglioso di annunciarvi i workshop e le conferenze che terrò il prossimo novembre. Mi aspettavo una crescita notevole dell’interesse verso i temi dell’Open Design e quindi anche dell’Open P2P Design, ma non immaginavo così tanto (ho addirittura dovuto rifiutare un paio di inviti)! Al momento sto ancora lavorando ai contenuti, quindi aspettatevi delle presentazioni e dei testi provenienti da questi eventi presto.

01. Speaker al Media Ecologies & Post-Industrial Production Conference

& lancio del P2P Research Group (un collettivo indipedennte alleato con la P2P Foundation)

University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
3 Novembre
http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/sssi/p2p/
Sede: Innovation Forum

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At this event, we will discuss the emergence and proliferation of a new form of production and value creation: peer production, where communities of producers work to create (free) software/hardware and/or (open) content accessible to everyone. Within peer production, producers create products within a ‘commons’ or shared space, which can be used and modified by others who then return the product, thus improved, to the common pool. Producers often operate as a cooperative ecology between communities as well as the companies that create market-based spin-offs from that same commons.

Parlerò durante la sessione pomeridiana “Media Ecologies for Open Design Communities and Distributed Manufacturing”:

Free software-based peer production has developed integrated and sophisticated platforms facilitated by the fact that software can be executed in the same digital environment in which it is designed. But such is (at least presently) not the case for open hardware and any object that need to be made physically. In this case, much more integrated feedback loops are needed, which require more sophisticated collaboration platforms that may included designs, videos, the management of flows, recursive loops from physical experimentation; comparisons between experiments in various locales and so on. We want to know: what is the state of the art of the current collaborative platforms? What is needed? Are there any possibilities for synergies between various platform projects currently being undertaken?

con una presentazione intitolata “Open P2P Design. Metadesign for Open Design projects”. Sfortunatamente non ho potuto organizzare la mia presenza a Manchester per quel giorno, quindi parteciperò attraverso una video conferenza.

Qua trovate anche un Google group per il workshop:
http://groups.google.com/group/media-ecology-workshop-09

Grazie a Michel Bauwens, Nathan Cravens e Phoebe Moore per l’invito!

02. Keynote speaker a Open 2009

Media Lab Helsinki Doctor of Arts Symposium
5–6 Novembre presso il Media Lab
University of Art and Design Helsinki
http://opensymposium.net/2009/

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The doctoral programme in Media Lab Helsinki will organize a symposium about openness in November 5–6, 2009, which is the second edition of the event.

OPEN 2009 – Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium is an event for all interested parties who want to understand the ongoing shift from an industrially organized era to an era of networks and social production. The role and meaning of information is changing from a fixed, well-guarded asset to a continuously changing openly shared process. Openness is affecting the relational dynamics between different actors. New ideals, organizational forms and practices emerge. They interfere with older traditions and create a space of conflict.

What does this mean for …
… organizations?
… consumers?
… citizens?
… research?
… business?
… design?
… culture?
… art?
… society?
… environment?
… you/me/us/everone else?

Terrò un keynote speech il 6 di novembre dal titolo: “openp2pdesign.org. Metadesign and Strategic Design for Open Systems, Processes, Projects.”.
Qui trovate la lista di tutti i keynote speakers: http://mlabsymp.uiah.fi/2009/speakers/

Potete seguire l’evento su Twitter: @mLabOPEN e anche tramite l’uso dell’hashtag #OPEN2009. Su Qaiku.com è stato creato un canale apposito per l’evento: http://www.qaiku.com/channels/show/OPEN2009/

03. Workshop presso Creative Cities in Imagination Society: 5th Congress of Creativity and Innovation

Cáceres
12-14 Novembre 2009
http://www.ciudadescreativascaceres.org/
Sede: Complejo Cultural San Francisco

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The organization knows cities are the best setting to experiment with social and economic innovation. These cities turn into urban laboratories to experiment citizenship creativity, create sustainable settings and socialize the innovation.

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Congress topics

• PEOPLE
  Cities where you can innovate with people, where creativity is seen as a tool for personal and collective development..
• ORGANIZATIONS
  Cities where organisations take actions and work in networks in order to cope with the contexts of crisis and global challenges.
• ENVIRONMENTS
  Cities composed of environments, where new models of urban innovation can be experimented as vehicles towards sustainability.

In questo contesto terrò un workshop (in Spagnolo) il giorno 13 novembre su come utilizzare la metodologia Open P2P Design per poter facilitare la creatività distribuita di una città e di un territorio attraverso attivitià collaborative: “Open P2P Design, co-diseñar una actividad colaborativa abierta con/para una comunidad y su localidad”.

¿Como podemos enfrentar los problemas complejos que los territorios y las ciudades tienen, entre problemas y recursos locales y globales?

Las comunidades de software Open Source y P2P han demonstrado que a través de una participación activa y de herramientas y formas organizativas abiertas y de par a par es posible desarrollar proyectos complejos y solucionar problemas complejos. Por esa razón se han adoptado estas formas organizativas y herramientas en muchos ambitos distintos de lo de la programación software cuales hardware, biotecnología, jurisprudencia, producción de contenidos y conocimiento, universidades, design, servicios publicos, modelos de comercio y economicos, investigación cientifica. En esta manera las formas organizativas abiertas y de par a par y sus proceso y herramienta se han reconocido como muy prometedoras para facilitar la participación activa y colaborativa de muchas personas para solucionar problemas y desarrolar proyectos con exito.
Es en este contexto que se habla de innovación abierta, inteligencia colectiva, colaboración de masa, crowdsourcing: todas son maneras de facilitar participantes y sus redes sociales y comunidades para que puedan proponer innovaciones y soluciones desde una creatividad distribuida en un territorio.

Es posible entonces pensar que podemos aprovechar de estas formas organizativas y herramientas para poner en marcha procesos participados, activos y colaborativos para faciltiar las personas a solucionar de manera creativa y colaborativa los problemas de su territorio/ciudad, construyendo redes locale y globales y valorizando los recursos locales al mismo tiempo.
Un proceso con participantes activos y colaborativos necesita de nuevas formas y herramientas, trasformandose en un proceso de co-diseño colaborativo. Por esta razón en este taller vamos a aprender como planear un proceso de co-diseño de una actividad colaborativa abierta y de par a par con una comunidad, empezando por su análisis, pasando luego por el desarrollo de un concepto de proyecto y acabando con la organización del proceso de co-diseño y realización con/para una comunidad.

Potete seguire l’evento anche su Twitter: @cacerescreativa

04. Workshops: Open P2P Design: Enabling Design 2.0 through Open Processes, Systems, Tools and Projects a Seoul e Singapore

Durante gli ultimi tre mesi ho lavorato a lungo con Roger Pitiot nella organizzazione di due workshop Open P2P Design che terremo a Seoul e Singapore questo novembre.
Stiamo giusto finendo alcuni dettagli, il workshop a Seoul durerà 4 giorni mentre quello a Singapore durerà 3 giorni, entrambi condividono i contenuti (anche se sono stati progettiti per un diffrente pubblico). Questi sono i contenuti:

Design 2.0: designers meet social networks and new technologies for distributed systems

What is Design 2.0, where it’s coming from and going to, why it’s interesting and what we should expect

• complex problems
• increasing importance of design
• open innovation
• opening design
• • with new technologies
  • Knowledge sharing
  • social networks
  • fabbing

Open P2P Design: how to organize open projects for distributed systems

What is Open P2P Design, where it’s coming from and going to, why it’s interesting and what we should expect

• enable distributed creativity
• collaborative activity for complex problem solving
• metadesign for open process
• co-design for open projects

The Workshop will answer the following questions:

• What is Open Design and how can we develop it with a community in a collaborative way?
• How can we design the co-design process and the tools we will use with a community?
• How can we design the first Open Design source code and manage its business and sharing?
• How can we set up Open Design businesses in the future and which technologies and strategies we will use?

Theoric Contents

• Open Design System
• How to open Design processes: co-design, collaborative design, metadesign
• Open Culture, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Creative Commons for Designers
• The coming distributed manufacturing scenario for Design and Businesses

Practical Contents

• Co-design of a collaborative activity for an open system, a community
• Collaborative design process for open projects
• Open tools for open projects
• Metadesign of open projects processes

04.01 Open P2P Design Workshop s Seoul

Hongik University
20-23 Novembre
http://www.workshop.colab-design.org/seoul

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04.02 Open P2P Design Workshop a Singapore

Nanyang Technological University
School of Art, Design and Media
25-27 Novembre

Il workshop a Singapore sarà uno degli eventi del Singapore Design Festival 2009

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L’organizzazione del Singapore Design Festival consiglia di usare SDF2009OpenP2PDesign come tag per le foto online e #SDF09OP2PD su Twitter.