This document discusses moving from closed product design to open component design for home appliances. It proposes a model where products are developed post-manufacturing through low investment R&D and collaboration between designers and users. Workshops were held to understand user attitudes towards disassembling products and exploring potential new uses of components. The workshops found users were optimistic about modifying products themselves and saw every product as an opportunity for new uses and interconnecting components in new scenarios. Transparency and communication were seen as important for this new development model.

1. From Product to Component:
Open Source in Home Appliances
Yashar Kardar
Azra Tuğçe Süngü

2. Design by Use
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5. Design by Use
Changing Needs
Open Design
Un-beneficial investments
Global e-waste
Stabilised functions
Universal Design
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6. Design by Use
Potential for a viable model: Post-manufacturing product
development
Low investment R&D

7. Design by Use
Potential for a viable model: Post-manufacturing product
development
Low investment R&D
Designers Users

8. Design by Use
Potential for a viable model: Post-manufacturing product
development
Low investment R&D
A shared language
Designers Users

9. Affordance as a medium
“A product in its most simplified form may be easier to modify than a more specialized
product, as hackers identify and act upon affordances that aid in modification”
Shu et al. (2015)
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10. Affordance as a medium
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11. Methodology
Assigned Usage Bare function Potential Usage

12. Methodology
Assigned Usage Bare function Potential Usage
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13. Workshops
Would you do it at home?
InHouse project
by David Steiner

14. Disassembly
Our main focus was participants
attitude towards disassembling
products to understand them.
Following the 'black box' theory of
Latour we assumed that the artefacts
presented in the workshop would be
seen as a singular whole although while
containing many elements embodying a
large network of interactions.

17. Schematic Explanations

18. Product development

20. Conclusions
Damaging devices or themselves
Once exposed , every product is an
opportunity
users would cross connect products through
components to each-other to create and adopt
new products for new scenarios.
Transparency and communication
surveyed participants experience evaluation,
showed significant optimism in participants
trust and eager to be modifying products of
their own
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Bare function
Potential Usage
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We would like to thank
Assist. Prof. Dr. Harun Kaygan
for his guidance,
Metu ID students and our team
for all their support.
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