[Open Design + Hardware] Happy New Year and new article

[Christian Villum]

Thanks Cindy, a very interesting read.

Specifically we might be able to use some of your findings in a new
EU-funded effort called OPENNEXT, which seeks to scale open source hardware
globally by positioning Fablabs worldwide as resource- and learning centres
for companies seeking to build communities of co-creators around their
products. More here: https://opennext.eu/ - in case anyone's interested.

Happy New Year everyone,

-Christian

On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 at 12:15, Kohtala Cindy <cindy.kohtala at aalto.fi> wrote:

> Hi all
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> wishing you a happy 2020!
> we have a new article out that may interest some of you, open access,
> Design Studies.
> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2019.11.008
> A taxonomy of users’ active design engagement in the 21st century
> Abstract:
> People not only purchase and use products and services, but creatively
> appropriate, hack, redesign and even innovate in them. Typologies of active
> use have emerged in various disciplines, remaining piecemeal even if
> complementary. Together they produce a blurry depiction of active design
> engagement, despite active use being pivotal to many emerging design
> approaches. To remedy this, we synthesize a taxonomy of different aspects
> of active use and design engagement. Use as-is, active use, locally new
> designs and globally new innovations mark different intensities of
> engagement. These can concern the material form of design, new uses, new
> meanings, adjustment to local settings, or the collective endeavours to
> shape communities and organizations, ideologies and imaginaries, and global
> platforms that facilitate active use.
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> we cite some of the researchers on this list too - so thanks for your
> work!
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> all the best
> Cindy
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> Dr Cindy Kohtala
> Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Design
> Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture  |  Espoo, Finland
> cindy.kohtala at aalto.fi
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