With some months of delay, I’m covering in this post the process and the outcome of the Post-Industrial Design Workshop at I Realize, in Turin on June 09th 2009. I’m sorry for the delay, but both me and Giorgio have been very busy since then (I will blog about my others 2009 projects soon).
So here’s the description of the process and the outcomes we co-designed there.

Post-Industrial Design Workshop: organization

Post-Industrial Design Workshop
at I Realize 09
a project by ToDo and openp2pdesign.org

Facilitated by Giorgio Olivero and Massimo Menichinelli

More reports on openp2pdesign.org here, and here.

Post-Industrial Design Workshop: participants

• Agata Tringale (CSP)
• Augusta (Popi) Giovannoli (CSP)
• Maurizio Muraro
• Gian Luca Matteucci (CSP)
• Francesca Valsecchi (Politecnico di Milano)
• Alberto Cottica (Kublai)
• Nadia El-Imam
• Costantino Bongiorno (Dorkbot Milano)
• Federico Weber (openp2pdesign.org)
• Stephen Williams (Fluid Forms)
• Michal Piasecki (ULC)
• Alberto Buzio (Politecnico di Torino)
• Elena Gianni (Politecnico di Torino)
• Federica Protti (Telecom)
• Francesco Buonomo (Politecnico di Torino)
• Riccardo Mongelluzzo (ToDo)
• Marco Rivetti (architetto)
• Andrea Pinchi (ToDo)
• Paola Leto (Agenzia Territoriale per la Casa)
• Giuseppe Sorrentino (Yet Matilde)

Post-Industrial Design Workshop: the concept

A workshop exploring the ongoing evolution of a new scenario for design in the information society.
Ingredients:
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From Michel Bauwens, here is a mindmap that presents a condensation of 3 years of his research at the P2P Foundation. The main body of the visualization contains 6 aspects of processes representing the cycle of reproduction and growth of openness in our societies:

1. Aspects of Openness
2. Enablers of Openness
3. Infrastructures of Openness
4. Open Practices
5. Open Domains of Practice
6. Open Products
7. Open Movements
8. Open Consciousness

On the Mindmeister map public page you can browse the map in a larger format or export it as an image, a .pdf file or in various mindmap formats, including the open source Freemind (which can be imported also in the open source and better Xmind), with which you can edit the map.

Here instead, on the P2P Foundation Blog, you can read its description with more details.

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 this publication, Future of Making Map, published by Institute for the Future here: http://iftf.org/node/1766.

Two future forces, one mostly social, one mostly technological, are intersecting to transform how goods, services, and experiences— the “stuff” of our world—will be designed, manufactured, and distributed over the next decade. An emerging do-it-yourself culture of “makers” is boldly voiding warranties to tweak, hack, and customize the products they buy. And what they can’t purchase, they build from scratch. Meanwhile, flexible manufacturing technologies on the horizon will change fabrication from massive and centralized to lightweight and ad hoc. These trends sit atop a platform of grassroots economics—new market structures developing online that embody a shift from stores and sales to communities and connections.

[...]

There is much to be learned from the maker mindset of collaboration, creativity, and open access. Yet the maker culture will not replace traditional industry. In the future, traditional manufacturers and maverick makers will be closely linked— sometimes cooperating, sometimes competing, but frequently blurring the boundaries that separate them. Success will occur when the two cultures are woven together in new and interesting ways.

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It’s a very interesting map that points out the

• Drivers
• Trends
• Signals
• Suggestions (Make the Future)

that could lead to a scenario of distributed design and manufacturing systems. It shows the social and technological phenomena driving (drivers) these trends (contrasting where we are in 2008 with where we will be in 2018), signals (a company, network, project, product, idea, or innovation) and suggestions for using the map for travelling or, better, going to where it’s heading to.

And then I’d like to announce you that I’m very honoured to participate at the I Realize 09 event in Turin on June 9-10, as a co-facilitator for the Post-Industrial Design Workshop with the Turin-based Design Studio ToDo (Thanks Giorgio for inviting me!).

And as you can see on the workshop page, we are going to study and draw a map about the future of Post-Industrial Design, starting from Generative Design, Open Processes and Projects, Fabbing, Open P2P Marketplaces…
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Max Barret,
Social Circles

Everyone

A Venn diagram, drawn with light, showing
the 5 different sets of social databases I use:
Hotmail.com contacts, Facebook.com friends,
Myspace.com friends, MSN messenger
contacts and those in my mobile phonebook.
A total of 259 people.

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