01. An Open P2P Design workshop, in Seoul

In November 2009 Massimo Menichinelli and Roger Pitiot organized an Open P2P Design Workshop at IDAS, in Seoul, South Korea. Many thanks to Hyun Shin Jo from Kookmin University and Won Taik Kim from IDAS for their collaboration as co-conductors, and to Jay Yoon from Creative Commons Korea for explaining Creative Commons and Open Culture to the students in Korean, helping us thus communicating with them such a big issue.
Here’s a report on the Creative Commons Korea website, if you can read Korean of course!
We had about 36 students the first day (Friday), but only half of them attended until the last day.

02. Pictures of the workshop

03. Presentations of the lectures

Here are the presentations of the lectures Massimo Menichinelli gave during the workshops:

04. The process and the outcomes of the workshop

Since we didn’t have enough time, we asked the students to organize themselves into groups, so that we could give each group an account to the main Subversion (SVN) repository. In this way, we could simulate how an Open Source community works, using the same software such communities use.
We divided them into 7 groups, each one with the name of a political leader (just for fun: think about opposite leaders collaborating in an Open Design project!):

• Barack Obama
• Ernesto Che Guevara
• George Bush
• Kim Jung Il
• Mao Zedong
• Nicolas Sarkozy
• Ronald Reagan

In order to explain to the students how to use the Open P2P Design methodology, we co-designed with them an Open Design collaborative activity. We asked them to think about developing an Open Design community among the IDAS students: the workshop would have been the first step, for the development of the proposal of an Open Design collaborative activity. After the workshop, the students could have been able to show the project to all the IDAS students and ask them to join the project, forming thus an Open Source community.

We started developing with them the Community Analysis of the IDAS student (here) we were designing the Open Design collaborative activity for:

Open P2P Design Workshop
IDAS, Seoulzzz
 
01. The Activity of the Community:
 
01 Subject (the community)
        01.01 student
        01.02 ages 20~30 female
        01.03 Student who they don't have time enough
        01.04 enjoy simple food
02 Object (of the activity)
        02.01 street food
        02.02 desert food
        02.03.. 
03 Rules
        03.01 has ban people who are not students
        03.02 with out man
04 Roles (division of labour)
        04.01...
        04.02...
05 Artefacts (material, immaterial, cognitive)
        05.01...
        05.02...
06 Larger Community (with which interacts)
        06.01...
        06.02...
07 Participation:
     07.01 Top-down ( )
        07.02 Bottom-up (X)
        07.03 Marketplace ( )
08 Reputation Levels
        08.01...
        08.02...
 
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Please note that it may contains mistakes or it may be unfinished: we were more interested in showing them how the Open P2P Design process works and how to use SVN and Trac for such projects.
We then co-design the Participation Matrix (here) of the whole Open Design collaborative activity, that is how we are going to set up the community and to build it with the other students.
As you can see, in the first steps the community of the students is not involved in the process (because these steps represent the workshop); after the construction of a first prototype, we will have a meeting with all the students (shared control for organizing the meeting) discussing the Open Design project with them. The following steps consist in an online discussion, the construction of a prototype and another meeting (consulting the community). After that, we will let the community of the students to manufacture / realize the Open Design project (the initial Open P2P Designers won’t manufacture it).

We then co-designed the Open Design Collaborative Activity (here) (based on the previous community analysis):

Open P2P Design Workshop
IDAS, Seoul
 
01. The Activity of the Community:
 
01 Subject (the community)
        01.01 workshop participant
        01.02 students
02 Object (of the activity)
        02.01 opendesign project
        02.02
03 Rules
        03.01 share
        03.02 non commercial
        03.03 shareware
04 Roles (division of labour)
        04.01 sketch/ technical drawing
        04.02 making prototype
        04.03 P.R/ bugshunter
05 Artefacts (material, immaterial, cognitive)
        05.01 trac
        05.02 subversion
        05.03 illustrator
06 Larger Community (with which interacts)
        06.01 around hongik university
        06.02 
07 Participation:
       07.01 Top-down (x)
        07.02 Bottom-up ()
        07.03 Marketplace ( )
08 Reputation Levels
        08.01 king (most excellent person on opendesign)
        08.02 Queen (most excellent person on food)
        08.03 princess (most excellent person on manufacturer)

And here is the System Map of the Open Design Collaborative Activity we co-designed, with the connections among all the roles and the kind of flows that take place within this connections.
Designers (sk) upload their sketches of the product/service system to the main repository, where the bug hunters can download and check them. The prototype people create cardboard mockups of the design projects and share them with the Designers (sk), so that they can modify their design eventually.
After that, technical drawing people can transform the sketches into technical drawings, and upload them to the main repository. Public Relations people (pr) act as intermediary between the Open Source community and the Dean and all the others teachers. They are also responsible for paying the prototype people for their mockups.
After the collaborative design process is over, each student can download the Open Design project and pay a manufacturer for producing the physical object.

After that, we asked them to focus on one problem they knew the community of IDAS students have: how to bring food / cook / eat in an easy way inside the university building. The Open Design collaborative activity to be pursued with the other students would be about solving this problem with Open Product Design / OpenService Design projects.
We had then a proposal for each group, that you can find in the trunk folder in the SVN repository.
Here’s for example the Poster that the Kim Jung Il group made for their project:

You can find the complete subversion repository of the workshop (with all its contents and versions) here on the WebSVN page.

05. Reflections on the Seoul workshop

Even though we had cultural and technical problems, the workshop was successful, since the students proved to understand and to like its main themes. We had the opportunity to learn few tricks that can help managing Trac and Subversion accounts, and we used them in the Singapore workshop. In this workshop we used a board for drawing all the Open P2P Design documents, but we learned how to design them in realtime while teaching, and we used this trick in the Singapore workshop as well; as a consequence, the Open P2P Design documents from the Singapore workshop are more coherent and refined, you will see them soon when I will blog about that workshop.
It would have been nice to transform the first Open Design proposals into physical objects taking advance of Seoul’s Distributed Manufacturing Systems, but we hadn’t enough time; this is something we will plan for future workshops for sure.