[Open Design + Hardware] opendesign Digest, Vol 50, Issue 4

Paul Smith p.smith at gsa.ac.uk
Wed Feb 1 19:23:05 UTC 2017 

Hi Christian,

Thank you for the response and the recommendations. I have definitely heard
of the Fab City project and I think it's brilliant! I would love us to
connect with it somehow, I'll keep posting about our project so hopefully
there will be shared insights.

Moving away from a product in and waste out model and a re-focus on local
supply, data sharing and data flows is something we are looking at with the
project. It certainly makes sense to me about how we think of material
flows and products in the future. Currently half of my research is situated
out of the urban in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, so I'm really
interested in what the Fab Rural would look like or even the Fab Island?
Perhaps another conversation for another time. :)

I do know of Make Works and the great work they do. I've met Fi around
MakLab in Glasgow and at a few other bits and bobs in the past. We're not
in touch, yet.

I'll keep on shamelessly posting links to out research and keep an eye on
Fab Cities.


Paul

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Christian Villum <villum at autofunk.dk> wrote:

> Thanks Paul, very exciting. Are you in touch with Scott Fi and the Make
> Works initiative? Sounds to me like your project and theirs would fit right
> together and they are right in your neck of the woods.
>
> Also, I am also working on another project, Fab City, which you might find
> relevant to connect with. We are building a large global coalition that
> aims to create a new urban operating system for large cities, making them
> into locally productive, globally connected self-sustainable entities that
> share solutions (data) for local, decentralized manufacturing and circular
> waste management. In effect going from a product-in-waste-out model to a
> data-in-data-out model. So far cities like Barcelona, Boston, Paris,
> Amsterdam and Detroit have pledged their commitment - and many more
> underway. One of the objectives is to develop the future business models of
> the circular economy, so very aligned with your objective it seems. Read
> more on http://fab.city/.
>
> In any case, please do keep us in the loop of how your study develops.
>
> -Christian
>
> On 31 January 2017 at 18:06, Paul Smith <p.smith at gsa.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Would like to say this is a great topic and lots of interesting stuff to
>> chew over so thank you. I have a shameless project plug of my own. I am
>> currently working on a feasibility study into the role of make spaces in
>> the circular economy. We are working with textile surplus in Scottish
>> textile manufacturers and two micro manufacturers. The model we are
>> adopting produces open source garments. Just about to host our second
>> re-make-a-thon! Link to our project blog below. It only has a few posts
>> juts now but we will update as we go along.
>>
>> https://remantleandmake.wordpress.com
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Christian Villum <villum at autofunk.dk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greg,
>>>
>>> Thanks for chipping in. I agree that it's time to crack the nut on open
>>> source hardware business models to allow for much wider adoption. Hopefully
>>> we can help that happen with the REMODEL venture.
>>>
>>> We'll share our progress and setbacks here on the list and would enjoy
>>> continued feedback. Any ideas, comments and viewpoints - now and further
>>> down the line - are more than welcome.
>>>
>>> -Christian
>>>
>>> On 30 January 2017 at 14:18, Greg Austic <gbathree at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't know if i can make that conference, though it's very close to
>>>> me (Ann Arbor MI) perhaps I should try, but I just wanted to say thanks for
>>>> bringing it up.  In my opinion, the business model is the thing that is
>>>> most holding open source hardware back from scaling the way open software
>>>> did and continues to do.  It's been one of the major topics of last years
>>>> Gathering for Open Science Hardware and I expect will be again this year.
>>>>
>>>> As someone who's trying and failing and trying again to make business
>>>> models work in open science hardware, I'd just love more peers + discussion
>>>> + support.
>>>>
>>>> Greg
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Christian Villum <villum at autofunk.dk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks Peter - adding to top of reading list right away.
>>>>>
>>>>> @everyone else: Please don't hold back on shameless self-promotion
>>>>> either ;-)
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> man. 30. jan. 2017 kl. 08.34 skrev Dr. Peter Troxler <trox at fabfolk.com
>>>>> >:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Warning: shameless self-promotion ahead:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regarding the business model 101 my recent research might be of
>>>>>> interest:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Community-based business models: Insights from an emerging maker
>>>>>> economy
>>>>>> http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/doc/30_5.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> / Peter
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 28 Jan 2017, at 14:26, Christian Villum <villum at autofunk.dk>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Irene,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for responding. Your plans for Rizoma.uy sounds great,
>>>>>> although my Spanish is a little rusty. I would very much like to
>>>>>> stay in the loop of your work and hear about the outcomes and insights from
>>>>>> the event as well as from developing the planform, if possible?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for reading material: We are actually in the middle of building an
>>>>>> open source (hardware) business model 101 reading package (comprised of
>>>>>> articles, book-links, TED-talks, etc.) that aims to give its reader an
>>>>>> understanding of the concept, the relevant terms and a general overview).
>>>>>> As soon as it is ready we would love to share it here.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the meantime I would like to take this opportunity to ask everyone
>>>>>> on the list what open source hardware business development materials you
>>>>>> would suggest including in such a reading package?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christian
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 January 2017 at 20:06, Irene Maldini <irene.maldini at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Christian,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Very interesting post (REMODEL). I cannot participate in the event in
>>>>>> Toronto but I would be very interested in reading material about business
>>>>>> models in open design/hardware (from you or other members in this forum).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We have recently launched an open design platform in Uruguay
>>>>>> (Rizoma.uy) and together with the local Creative Commons and the Design
>>>>>> cluster we are planning a specific event on the issue of business/economic
>>>>>> sustainability models for 2017. It would be nice to  know what is going on,
>>>>>> as I have not been following the topic for a couple of years already.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you recommend any texts?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Irene
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>    1. Open hardware business model session(s) @ CC Global Summit?
>>>>>>       (Christian Villum)
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>>>>>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 06:25:15 +0100
>>>>>> From: Christian Villum <villum at autofunk.dk>
>>>>>> To: Open Design Definition - mailing list <opendesign at lists.okfn.org>
>>>>>> Subject: [Open Design + Hardware] Open hardware business model
>>>>>>         session(s) @    CC Global Summit?
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>>>>>> Anyone going to CC Global Summit in Toronto in April who's up for
>>>>>> submitting one or more session proposals on open source hardware
>>>>>> business
>>>>>> models? I have a few ideas rooted in, among other things, my work on
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> REMODEL program: http://danskdesigncenter.dk/en/remodel. Happy to
>>>>>> elaborate
>>>>>> if anyone's interested as well as discuss ideas for a joint session
>>>>>> proposal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Call for submissions: https://summit.creativecommons.org/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christian Villum
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianvillum
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