[Open Design + Hardware] New definition for open design

Fri Oct 23 05:03:26 UTC 2015

Thanks, Aleksander. I really like the designer-centric approach you take in
the paper -- that brings nice nuance -- ours is more of a macro-level
approach to open design, including open innovation, crowdsourcing and open
hard- and software

Dr. Tanja Aitamurto
Deputy Director
Brown Fellow, postdoctoral
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation <http://brown.stanford.edu/>
School of Engineering
Stanford
www.tanjaaitamurto.com <http://brokenfence.flavors.me/>
~ examining collective intelligence in journalism, governance and design ~

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Aleksandar Kovač <
alex.ecorrespondence at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you very much for sharing your work, Tanja!
> It sounds like very promising (and hefty!) work, please keep it up!
>
> I’d like to refer you to our paper on a designer’s position in the open
> source paradigm that I hope can be helpful in your work and I think
> parallels and complements your three layers nicely. After an exciting ride
> through our methodology ;), in its conclusion it proposes a general model
> of social adaptive behavior for a designer in the “open”:
>
> 1. Designer’s cultivation - designer’s ability to do ground-work in the
> open paradigm.
> 2. Designer’s socialization - designer’s ability to design *with* the open
> community.
> 3. Designer’s initiative - designer’s ability to design *within* the open
> source paradigm.
>
> Hope this is useful.
> If you need more input from me, I’m happy to help.
>
> alex
>
>
>
> -- Designing With and Within a Community - by Kovač Aleksandar,
> Kittiwongsunthorn Warruntorn, Katsuhiko Kushi, Kyoto Institute of
> Technology. (Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, Vol.
> 60 (2014) No. 5 p. 5_93-5_102)
>
> ---
> Aleksandar Kovač
> Kyoto Institute of Technology
>
> On 15 Oct 2015, at 04:14, Tanja Aitamurto <tanja.aitamurto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> We have developed a new definition to conceptualize open design. The
> definition includes both *the open product and the process, *and includes
> open-source software, open hardware, and open commercialization processes,
> like open innovation, as well as open and participatory design practices
> like crowdsourcing and co-creation*.* This new definition, accompanied by
> a three-layered framework to analyze open design processes, is introduced
> in an article *'Open Paradigm in Design Research*' published last week at the
> Design Issues.
> <http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/DESI_a_00348>
> I'd be grateful to hear feedback and comments, and for pointers to related
> work, as we are developing this concept further.
> Many thanks,
> Tanja
>
> Dr. Tanja Aitamurto
> Deputy Director
> Brown Fellow, postdoctoral
> The Brown Institute for Media Innovation <http://brown.stanford.edu/>
> School of Engineering
> Stanford
> www.tanjaaitamurto.com <http://brokenfence.flavors.me/>
> ~ examining collective intelligence in journalism, governance and design ~
>
> <Open paradigm in design research.pdf>
>
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