[Open Design] Crafting the future - European Academy of Design Conference - track Making together

Fri Apr 19 20:51:12 UTC 2013

Hi open design list members,

i hope i am not crossposting, but i want to share with you the information
about the conference Crafting the future -10th edition of the European
Academy of Design Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden).

The program of the conference included a track dedicated to the topic
“MAKING TOGETHER – Open, Connected, Collaborative”. The track gathered the
participation of researchers and PhD students developing academic research
in field such as collaborative and participatory design, open design and
making practices from all over the world.
I’m glad that i got the chance to participate by presenting an article
about the results of the Workshop in wearable computing organized in 2012
within the Summer school in digital fabrication and interaction design
SUPSI (
http://www.maind.supsi.ch/blogs/workshop-in-physical-and-wearable-computing/).
The workshop was held by Massimo Banzi and Zoe Romano who are also the
co-authors of the article.

You can read the full article here.
http://meetagain.se/papers/four/fromwearablecomputingt.pdf
Please mind that the concepts of the article are still to be refined (even
if the title sounds so "precise" :-)) and this is my first attempt of
academic writing.

Other interesting papers presented during the conference are:
Heloisa Neves, Clice de Toledo Sanjar Mazzilli, Open Design – a map of
contemporary Open Design structures and practices
http://meetagain.se/papers/four/open_design__a_map.pdf
Anna Seravalli, Prototyping for opening production: from designing for to
designing in the making together
http://meetagain.se/papers/four/prototyping_for_opening_production.pdf

Another paper related to open design is:
Open Design and Medical Products: Irreconcilable Differences, or Natural
Bedfellows?
http://meetagain.se/papers/four/ead_2013_matt_dexter.doc.pdf

One article by the same author Paul Atckinson presents some critical issues
of open design (*that i do not agree with*):
http://www.trippus.se/eventus/userfiles/39743.pdf

The experience at the conference has been great, nevertheless i would also
express some negative remarks on some presentations.

do not hesitate to reply if you have feedback or questions.

regards
Serena
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