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SUPERORGANISM
ABOUT Open Design is a superorganism. This phenomenon brings together a community of users who now has the ability to collaborate with designers and engineers across the world. Even though the concept of open design is new, it has already made significant impacts towards our society, as mentioned in these books. The beauty of this superorganism is its youth and potential for even greater influence in the future.
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. -Confucius
PROJECTS Various examples of past and current examples of open design projects, each with different objecives and goals.
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Instructables Restaurant The first open source restaurant in the world. From the interiors to the recipes, everything is downloaded from the website, instructables.com. Visitors are able to download various instructions of different elements from the restaurant. They are also able to download the recipes, and make the food at home if they desire. The ideas that are situated in this restaurant originated from users online, and therefore creating this sense of openness and connectivity between digital and real life collaboration.
instructablesrestaurant.com
Based on the platform of Instructables.com
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11 DIWAMS is the approach that IKEAHackers has adopted. This idea is to create new products with existing products.
IkeaHackers This project is a group of people gathered together sharing their ideas and solutions with their modifications to IKEA products. And because of the global standardization of IKEA products, many users are able to use the same method as an other person to personalize their own IKEA products. IKEAHackers idea is simply to modify existing IKEA products and making them more personalized, which often was compromised for the large market consumption.
ikeahackers.net 11
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The Fablab in Amsterdam is only one out of many fablabs around the world. Fablab is an practice that allows public to have access to different types of computerized machines.
$50 Leg Prosthesis The goal of this project was to create fifty-dollar prosthesis legs for developing countries which majority of the population does not have money to spend on expensive prosthesis. Initated by the FabLab Amsterdam and the Hous of Natural Fiber, participants are working collectively in creating affordable prosthesis legs.
blog.waag.org/?p=2454 13
Open Prosthetics Project Created by the Shared Design Alliance, this project’s aim is to produce open sourced prosthesis ideas that would eventually aid in the prosthesis manufacturing industry. Users, designers, and funder are welcomed to participate in the development of various developing ideas.This project goal is to develop prosthetics that are affordable for everyone.
openprosthetics.org 15
17 This project was initiated by Waag Society, which is a media lab.
fairphone Initiated by medialab Waag Society, the goal for this project is to create an honest phone which all the parts are produced and used without doing any harm to the humans or the environment. Fairphone is open for everybody’s access and contributions such as campaigning the Fairphone project, to the graphic and technical aspects of the product. Current designs of the Fairphone are currently turned into prototypes that then can be modified into a blueprint for larger scale productions.
fairphone.com 17
C,mm,n C,mm,n (pronounced as Common) is a Netherlands based open source project focusing on sustainable individual mobility for the future. The blueprints of the mobility concepts are available for use under the open source licenses and anyone is free to modify or adapt the design with the condition that the design must be documented back into the c,mm.nity [web platform].
www.cmmn.org 19
KamerMaker An open sourced first movable pavilion which can 3D-print entire room of plastics. As a pavilion itself, kamermaker also has the function to produce smaller pavillions. Created by people from various disciplines in an open source manner; this project has just started in March 2012, and the location for the pavillion will be in Amsterdam. Public are welcomed to view the testing of the print techniques and contribute in the process of the KamerMaker. It is proposed that the initial printed room will be completed by September 2012. And as a movable pavilion, KamerMaker will be able to be transported around the Netherlands to inspire more cities the creations of open source design and raise awareness about re-using biodegradable plastics.
dusarchitects.com 21
WikiHousE This open community project provides access toopen source construction sets. This project allows people to design, download, and print houses (CNC-milled) and components, which could then be easily assembled. Although they are not affliated, OAN and OpenSource Ecology have very similar interests and goals.
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OS House The goal of this project is to create sustainable and affordable housing using natural materials and locally produced designs. One of the examples of OpenSource House is the project Emerging Ghana . Which is a project that aims to create better and affordable living conditions for low-middle income people of Ghana.
os-house.org 25
OpenStreetMap An online site that provides users with free geospatial data, which are available for anyone to use and share. This project was extremely successful when it was applied into the humanitarian relief effort in Haiti. Along with the GeoCommons mapmaking program, the open source program is aiding in the relief and recovery effort in Haiti. The collaboration of thousands of people’s turned into a geomap of Haiti that was so detailed that local volunteers requested a simpler version. The collaboration of local volunteers and viral participants has made this project the standard for map data, but also a step closer to an easier way to aid future relief efforts.
openstreetmap.org 27
The Global Village Construction Set Created by the Open Source Ecology, this project, also known as “life size Lego set”, is an ongoing experiment that aims to create a sustainable modern life with local resources. They have already created products such as earth brick-making machines and self-propelled tractors that cost a fraction of price of regular industry branded machineries. These machines are developed through an open source method, which all the resources and documentations are published online on their own wiki for public access.
opensourceecology.org 29
THIS BOOK IS
OPEN
As open design is about participation and collaboration, all the content of this book is available online for anyone to edit and re-use. The raw file for this book is also available to be downloaded and accessed under the Creative Commons License. thingiverse.com/thing:21475
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ABOUT Open Design is a superorganism. This phenomenon brings together a community of users who now has the ability to collaborate with designers and engineers across the world. Even though the concept of open design is new, it has already made significant impacts towards our society, as mentioned in these books. The beauty of this superorganism is its youth and potential for even greater influence in the future.
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. -Confucius
PROJECTS Various examples of past and current examples of open design projects, each with different objecives and goals.
7
Instructables Restaurant The first open source restaurant in the world. From the interiors to the recipes, everything is downloaded from the website, instructables.com. Visitors are able to download various instructions of different elements from the restaurant. They are also able to download the recipes, and make the food at home if they desire. The ideas that are situated in this restaurant originated from users online, and therefore creating this sense of openness and connectivity between digital and real life collaboration.
instructablesrestaurant.com
Based on the platform of Instructables.com
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11 DIWAMS is the approach that IKEAHackers has adopted. This idea is to create new products with existing products.
IkeaHackers This project is a group of people gathered together sharing their ideas and solutions with their modifications to IKEA products. And because of the global standardization of IKEA products, many users are able to use the same method as an other person to personalize their own IKEA products. IKEAHackers idea is simply to modify existing IKEA products and making them more personalized, which often was compromised for the large market consumption.
ikeahackers.net 11
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The Fablab in Amsterdam is only one out of many fablabs around the world. Fablab is an practice that allows public to have access to different types of computerized machines.
$50 Leg Prosthesis The goal of this project was to create fifty-dollar prosthesis legs for developing countries which majority of the population does not have money to spend on expensive prosthesis. Initated by the FabLab Amsterdam and the Hous of Natural Fiber, participants are working collectively in creating affordable prosthesis legs.
blog.waag.org/?p=2454 13
Open Prosthetics Project Created by the Shared Design Alliance, this project’s aim is to produce open sourced prosthesis ideas that would eventually aid in the prosthesis manufacturing industry. Users, designers, and funder are welcomed to participate in the development of various developing ideas.This project goal is to develop prosthetics that are affordable for everyone.
openprosthetics.org 15
17 This project was initiated by Waag Society, which is a media lab.
fairphone Initiated by medialab Waag Society, the goal for this project is to create an honest phone which all the parts are produced and used without doing any harm to the humans or the environment. Fairphone is open for everybody’s access and contributions such as campaigning the Fairphone project, to the graphic and technical aspects of the product. Current designs of the Fairphone are currently turned into prototypes that then can be modified into a blueprint for larger scale productions.
fairphone.com 17
C,mm,n C,mm,n (pronounced as Common) is a Netherlands based open source project focusing on sustainable individual mobility for the future. The blueprints of the mobility concepts are available for use under the open source licenses and anyone is free to modify or adapt the design with the condition that the design must be documented back into the c,mm.nity [web platform].
www.cmmn.org 19
KamerMaker An open sourced first movable pavilion which can 3D-print entire room of plastics. As a pavilion itself, kamermaker also has the function to produce smaller pavillions. Created by people from various disciplines in an open source manner; this project has just started in March 2012, and the location for the pavillion will be in Amsterdam. Public are welcomed to view the testing of the print techniques and contribute in the process of the KamerMaker. It is proposed that the initial printed room will be completed by September 2012. And as a movable pavilion, KamerMaker will be able to be transported around the Netherlands to inspire more cities the creations of open source design and raise awareness about re-using biodegradable plastics.
dusarchitects.com 21
WikiHousE This open community project provides access toopen source construction sets. This project allows people to design, download, and print houses (CNC-milled) and components, which could then be easily assembled. Although they are not affliated, OAN and OpenSource Ecology have very similar interests and goals.
wikihouse.cc 23
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OS House The goal of this project is to create sustainable and affordable housing using natural materials and locally produced designs. One of the examples of OpenSource House is the project Emerging Ghana . Which is a project that aims to create better and affordable living conditions for low-middle income people of Ghana.
os-house.org 25
OpenStreetMap An online site that provides users with free geospatial data, which are available for anyone to use and share. This project was extremely successful when it was applied into the humanitarian relief effort in Haiti. Along with the GeoCommons mapmaking program, the open source program is aiding in the relief and recovery effort in Haiti. The collaboration of thousands of people’s turned into a geomap of Haiti that was so detailed that local volunteers requested a simpler version. The collaboration of local volunteers and viral participants has made this project the standard for map data, but also a step closer to an easier way to aid future relief efforts.
openstreetmap.org 27
The Global Village Construction Set Created by the Open Source Ecology, this project, also known as “life size Lego set”, is an ongoing experiment that aims to create a sustainable modern life with local resources. They have already created products such as earth brick-making machines and self-propelled tractors that cost a fraction of price of regular industry branded machineries. These machines are developed through an open source method, which all the resources and documentations are published online on their own wiki for public access.
opensourceecology.org 29
THIS BOOK IS
OPEN
As open design is about participation and collaboration, all the content of this book is available online for anyone to edit and re-use. The raw file for this book is also available to be downloaded and accessed under the Creative Commons License. thingiverse.com/thing:21475
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