Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model

Circular Makerspaces: the founder’s view

“…It is worth noting that such activities can occur without a makerspace's physical structure, even though there may be beneficial aspects of doing so in a makerspace (access to tools, skills, communities) (Salvia and Prendeville 2017). Dickel, Ferdinand and Petschow (2016) describe how manufacturing and value creation are in the midst of a great transition, enabled by low-cost desktop digital technologies (such as those housed in makerspaces) and the ability to share information easily and quickly over the internet (Kostakis et al 2015). Through new means to support product development costs (through platforms such as Indiegogo 4 and Kickstarter 5 ) and foster global communities around products, makerspaces are considered to play a prominent role in this transition.…”

O Design dos Makerspaces e dos Fablabs no Brasil: um mapeamento preliminar.

“…Kostakis et al (2015) argumentam que esses espaços de viabilidade técnico-econômica contem diferentes arranjos sociais e econômicos, onde o lucro, poder e controle não parecem tão predominante como eles tem na história do capitalismo moderno. Diferente do discurso predominante que mede as inovações pelo valor econômico gerado esses espaços visam, sobretudo a experimentação, o aprendizado e a melhoria social proporcionada.…”

Distributed economies through open design and digital manufacturing

“…From the perspective of open design, Kostakis et al (2015Kostakis et al ( , 2016 propose the concept of "design global, manufacture local", which refers to processes in which design is developed globally, through sharing and improving ideas and design blueprints, while the manufacturing processes occur locally.…”

“…One approach to distributed production is the use of digital manufacturing technologies, which facilitate ondemand production (KOSTAKIS et al 2015(KOSTAKIS et al , 2016RAUCH et al 2016). It is understood that open design and digital manufacturing technologies are strategies that can complement each other when open design blueprints are used to materialize artifacts through digital manufacturing in a distributed production context (NEVES and ROSSI 2011;CABEZA et al 2014CABEZA et al , 2015.…”

“…Furthermore, as the design process is documented and disseminated, as well as design blueprints, open design also enables more sustainable solutions to be improved or replicated by others, increasing their potential for impact mitigation (KOSTAKIS et al 2015).…”