Making Things Open
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The document describes a workshop on open design. The morning session includes introductions, case studies, design tools, and activities to understand users. The afternoon session includes wrapping up the first activity, presenting derivative design concepts, low-fidelity prototyping, sharing activities, and wrapping up. Participants will learn about the open source ecosystem, levels of configuring open interactive products, open licenses, and skills/knowledge transfer from designers to users. Open products are discussed as platforms that provide information and tools for users to access, produce, modify, and create new products built on the platform. The tasks of designers are to provide user-friendly interfaces and design toolkits to transfer skills and access to openness.
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- 1. Making things open Workshop WeMake, 18.10.2014 open mirror-digital habits
- 2. Program Morning session: 10.00-13.30 1. Introduction 2. Case studies presentation 3. Design tools 4. Activity A: understanding users! Afternoon session: 14.20-18.00 5. Wrap-up Activity A 6. Activity B: derivative design concept presentation 7. Wrap-up Activity B 8. Activity C: low-fi prototyping 9. Wrap-up Activity C 10. Acticity D: let’s share!
- 3. What we learn 1. limits and opportunities of the current open source ecosystem (technologies, interfaces, communities, etc.) 2. levels of configurazione of an interactive products featuring open source software and hardware 3. Differences among open licenses (Creative Commons Licenses) 4. Skills and Knowledge transfer from the designer to the users 5. Concept design of products that fits the current use and productions scenarios
- 9. Open Design Now, Bis Publisher, 2011, Amsterdam
- 10. The designer should not give up his role as a designer (or restrict himself to his traditional role as designer of material or immaterial objects). Instead, he should become a metadesigner who designs a multidimensional design space that provides a user-friendly interface, enabling the user to become a co-designer, even when this user has no designer experience or no time to gain such experience through trial and error. The task of the metadesigner is to create a pathway through design space, to combine the building blocks into a meaningful design JOS DE MUL, REDESIGNING DESIGN in Bas van Abel, Lucas Evers, Roel Klaassen, Peter Troxler, Open Design Now, Bis Publisher, 2011, Amsterdam
- 11. 1. What are the levels of configuration of open source interactive artifacts and the design opportunities activated by the open source ecosystem: hardware, software, platforms and communities?
- 14. Open products are platforms, namely devices that allow users to access information and tools to produce, use, modify them and to make novel products built upon them.
- 15. hardware-software platforms Hardware Software Documentation + Source files Community
- 16. Physical partsInteractive behaviours Hardware and software Products-Platforms Design toolkit Community repositories
- 17. 2. What information and skills should be transferred to users of products- platforms?
- 18. Providing people with interfaces and design toolkit for “accessing the openness”. Spruzzo.cc, open source sprouter. Users can select the dimension, the kind of seeds to plant and even the final taste they will have (sweet or bitter, soft or crispy, etc.). Designing community interactions Providing people with on-line spaces of interactions. Thiniverse.com is the platform supported by MakerBot industries (3D printer manufacturing company) that offers files and instructions shared by the users. Keeping the control Losing the control
- 19. Files Documentation Collaborative Platforms Modular and Parametric systems Re-production machines Open Ecosystem
- 25. Sketching 2D Paper prototyping 3D Interactive wireframes Wizard of OZ