[Open Design + Hardware] New definition for open design

[Matthew Dexter]

Hello Kat,

In the spirit of sharing I’d like to offer my thesis on the Open Design of medical products. I was awarded the PhD last year, but have taken the past year to reformat the text from a cumbersome Word doc (135mb) to a more palatable 8mb PDF.

Please feel free to have a look at the (almost complete - just need to do a list of figures) thesis. I’m currently building a design-led open hardware startup based on the findings of the PhD- transitioning away from academia. Would be interested to chat with others who have similar experiences, or have opinions about open design, medical, startups… amongst other things!

Have a good weekend all.
Kind regards,

Matt

Download link for the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B544YAOEmjkhWXpxZjNVbzFmbUU/view?usp=sharing


On 23 Oct 2015, at 12:51, Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is great -- thanks Tanja and team for sharing it. 
> 
> Definitely intend to cite in my own research, as I'm currently undertaking a small genealogy of hacking/making practices over the past decade as part of my PhD work. 
> 
> In addition to the usefulness of your more concise definition of what open design actually is, I also liked the conceptualization of the open design process as occurring in a series of layers, starting with "listening in", then "interacting and creating with", and then "sharing with". Nicely helps form a comprehensive picture of what the practices actually look like in day-to-day use. 
> 
> Thanks again -- and for others on this list, would love to see other papers/reports/writing you've released recently on this front. Would love to learn from it!
> 
> - Kat
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> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Tanja Aitamurto <tanja.aitamurto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> School of Engineering
> Stanford
> www.tanjaaitamurto.com
> ~ 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”:
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> 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
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> -- 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)
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> ---
> Aleksandar Kovač
> Kyoto Institute of Technology
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> 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. 
>> 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
>> School of Engineering
>> Stanford
>> www.tanjaaitamurto.com
>> ~ examining collective intelligence in journalism, governance and design ~
>> <Open paradigm in design research.pdf>
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