It argues that open design, by pooling knowledge and resources, facilitating user participation, and re-evaluating concepts of time, can make strong contributions to sustainability and building stronger communities. The author believes open design is a tool to solve problems arising from systemic moral failures. Examples discussed include open-source washing machines and a project to build homes and community for the lonely or useless.

1. “FROM BEST DESIGN TO JUST DESIGN” by TOMMI LAITIO
From OPEN DESIGN NOW
2012/12/17
Master‘s Program of the Graduate School of Media and Governance 1 year
Daisuke Nakahara
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2. Problem institution
- Can open design contribute to the world’s bigger problems,
such as depletion and squandering of natural resources,
population growth, consumerism and widespread poverty?
- Can pooling knowledge and resources , re-evaluating the
concept of time, and facilitating user participation help
open design make a strong contribution to sustainability?
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3. The author
Tommi Latio
“open design is a tool to solve problems that arise from
systemic moral bankruptcy. Building stronger communities
along the way.”
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4. Background
- Exhaustion of environmental resources
- Population explosion
- consumer society is not stopped
Method for Production and distribution are needed to a full
paradigm shift.
- Minor tweaks to traditional methods will no longer suffice.
- e.g. classic approaches to market segmentation no longer
function
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5. Social design
- Social design covers a range between products and services,
creating to solve problems in society
- Open design is part of a shift from ‘wow design’ to ‘we design’.
e.g. Fab Labs
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6. Social design
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7. Social design
Strong local communities
e.g. Open Source Washing
Machine
This was a project aiming to build a cheap
open-source washing machinine in
developing countries for local
comminities.
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8. Social design
Strong local communities
e.g. Take Loppukiri
- Loneliness/helpless or useless
- Build a house and a community
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9. Concept of time
- Open design requires a re-evaluation of the concept of time.
- People are willing to contribute more time to shared
initiatives when they have a sense of the common good.
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10. Concept of time
Although many
people from both
groups will remain
in or enter the
labour market, the
number of people
who have nothing
meaningful to do is
still growing.
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11. Thank you.
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