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My most recent book is “Open Design Now”, edited by Bas van Abel, Lukas Evers, Roel Klaassen and myself. The book is available from BIS publishers http://www.bispublishers.nl/bookpage.php?id=190 Content will gradually be made available at http://opendesignnow.org/; my contributions are: Libraries of the Peer Production Era The Beginning of a Beginning of the Beginning of a Trend [...]
In an upcoming book “Open Design Now — Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive” (to be available as of June, pre-orders now possible, I develop my thinking about Fab Labs and similar places further to call them the Libraries of the Peer Production Era: Mapping the landscape of commons- based peer production, I analyse the arena [...]
Only two contributions of mine made it into the faboulous “Open Design” brochure of Creative Industries Styria, published in the run up to the Design Month in May this year — an article on FabLabs particularly with consideration for the alpine region (not forgetting to mention FabLab Lucerne that opened on Feb 24) and a [...]
In 2008 I had the chance to design and run a 24-hour creative marathon for ETH Zurich (for details and credits see here). The over 100 participants generated 17 project proposals how to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption at this university. Not only was this great fun to do; Patricia Wolf and Ralf Hansmann, [...]
I’ll be addressing how Fab Labs are positioned around ‘open sourcing’ hardware, a territory hardly ever explored in research, maybe apart from the open design people such as Ronen Kadushin and the people around Kerstin Balka. The paper will then report a number of case studies where ‘open source’ in hardware really has happened. From [...]
First there was a digital revolution in computation (personal computer), then in communications (convergence and mobile phones). The next digital revolution, according to MIT’s Neil Gershenfeld (2005), is in the field of manufactured physical goods (personal fabrication). Gershenfeld and his colleagues have created so-called Fablabs around the world: fabrication laboratories, equipped with digital fabrication machines [...]
I’ve been working with Fablabs for a couple of years now … getting to know the concept itself, then getting to like it, even love it … same with the people involved in Fablabs. The one thing that puzzles outsiders most about Fablabs is that there seems to be no one single reference, no ultimate [...]
Traditional business models of the creative industries are built on the protection of content. With the advent of an Internet culture where content is ‘sold’ at a price of zero and sharing is a key paradigm, that model seems not to be fully adequate any longer, even more, there might be a time when content [...]
Tonight (20:30), I am presenting the Creative Commons Showcase at Gallery Walcheturm in Zurich Here is the programme with some links: Paul Gerhardt, ex Creative Archive (BBC) presentation (almost the one he’s going to give): http://www.slideshare.net/stoffeltjen/bomvl-workshop-paul-gerhardt dyslexia movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSRqrs-WhLk Markus Beckedahl, CC-DE: NDR (public broadcaster) uses CC licenses http://www3.ndr.de/sendungen/extra_3/englische102.html Paul Keller on the CC-NL pilot [...]
Communities of Practice have become almost a standard answer to the quest of organisations to foster learning, sharing and development of knowledge. However, they still pose the classic challenges of Knowledge Management of finding the middle ground between technology-driven and people-driven approaches, between systematic solutions and mere fads, and between forced and self-directed participation. This [...]