Massimo Menichinelli administrator
massimo.menichinelli@openp2pdesign.orgMassimo Menichinelli is the founder of openp2pdesign.org.
He is a designer working and researching on open collaborative projects (Open Design/Open P2P Design) and the systems that design them since 2005. He’s interested in the relationships between design, localities, communities and complexity, learning from Open Source, P2P and Web 2.0 software and adopting their principles and practices.He has worked as a designer and also at the Politecnico di Milano where he has given lectures about the relationships between design/locality/community/complexity and he has been interested in the organization of the design community of some courses.
He has been giving lectures and workshops about designing open and collaborative services with communities and spreading awareness and knowledge about Open Systems in Italy (First Free Software Italian Conference in Cosenza, I Realize in Turin and more), Spain (Institute for Advanced Architecture and UrbanLabs 08 in Barcelona and Creative Cities in Imagination Society in Caceres), Finland (keynote speaker at the Open 2009 Symposium, Helsinki), South Korea and Singapore (Open P2P Design workshops in Seoul, IDAS and Singapore, NTU) so far.Massimo Menichinelli has written 296 posts so far. Read them here.
Miae Kim author
miae.kim@openp2pdesign.orgMiae Kim has been participating as a researcher in ‘Open P2P Design’ since 2010. She’s interested in open source and studying how open source theory can be applied to design or other creative works.
She held a bachelor’s degree in Architecture in 2000, from Hanyang University in Seoul and a master in Design Management in 2010, from IDAS (International Design school for Advanced Studies) in Seoul. She has been working as Exhibition-Interior designer.Miae Kim has written 2 posts so far. Read them here.
Mauro Costa author
mauro.costa@openp2pdesign.orgProfessor Mauro Costa is an associated professor at ELISAVA, Escola Superior de Arquitectura – Universitat Internacional de Catalanya (ESARQ-UIC) and invited professor at Faculdade de Arquitectura de Lisboa (FA-UTL), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) and Lusíada Univesity in Barcelona and Lisbon.
Completed a Ph.D. at the ESARQ-UIC, Barcelona, with the thesis – Analogías Biológicas en la Arquitectura - approved with an Excellent - Cum Laude and had a scholarship from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal. Holds a Master in History of Architecture and Design, and a Master in Genetic Architectures: the New Cybernetic Design and the New Ecological Design from ESARQ-UIC. He also holds an undergraduate degree of six years in Architecture from FA-UTL, Lisbon.
His research concerns the analysis of functional analogies between biology and architecture with special emphasis on mass customization based in sustainable processes that can be materialized using CAD/CAM methods.Mauro Costa has written 1 posts so far. Read them here.
Roger Pitiot author
roger.pitiot@openp2pdesign.orgRoger Pitiot’s career spans 30 years, with numerous outstanding design awards. Roger is an ENSAD Fellow, an active design consultant, and a teacher.
After graduate in 1976 he joined the Design team of the SALOMON company, and participle in the settling of SX 90 the first SALOMON ski boot Designed with Roger Talon. He Found "Design Partners" known as DP in 1982, continuing the collaboration with SALOMON: the SX 91 ski-boot presented in 1985 became a classical of design. He taught in ENSAD from 1992 till 1994 in the Product Design department.
In 1996 he began, with the KIDP (Korean Institute of design Promotion) the Asian adventure in Korea. While keeping in touch with the European customers, he extended the collaboration with the Korean companies, Since 2000 He teach in IDAS, (post graduate school of Hongik University) in Seoul, sharing his time between education, conferences and consulting in Asia and Europe. He dedicate now most his time and research to promote and spread an alternative to the design mainstream.Roger Pitiot has written posts so far. Read them here.
Matteo Tangi author
tangi.matteo@gmail.comMatteo Tangi is an eco-designer working and researching on participation, open design and fabbing from 2008.
He acheve his degree at the Politecnico di Torino with a bachelor degree thesis titled "Participatory Design in Web 2.0", a reasearch about the new collaborative interaction between designers, users and factories. He continues in the master degree with a thesis named "Open Design Company" where he expands his analysis exploring these fields of study with a business point of view, tring to reach the bases of a new kind of economy, more focused on the human needs.Matteo Tangi has written posts so far. Read them here.
Emmanuel Gilloz editor
emmanuel.gilloz@gmail.comHi ! I'm a designer and would describe myself as an idealist t(h)inker engaged in design for change, following the Papanek's path. Passionate about design and how it could evolve. Interested by everything, I tend to mix all that together (my motto its to synthesize the whole).
Today that lead me to collaborate in the creation of several fablabs and to study the implications they could have on the design practice, and the society by extension.
After a baccalaureate in Applicated Arts I studied Industrial and Product design from 2006 to 2010, now in a Global Design master for 2011 (with a thesis about FabLab and open-design, and maybe pursuing with a phd).
I came to meta/open-design by the idea that if we really want to solve problems, we must empower everyone with all we can. It will be more efficient to be 7 billions that just a few (what Emily Pilloton did with the opening of Studio H is a good example).
I blog also about some others things and the RepRap Project, but will contribute and share especially about meta/open-design here :)Emmanuel Gilloz has written 1 posts so far. Read them here.
