Open Design: Contributions, Solutions, Processes and Projects

Tooze, James; Baurley, Sharon; Phillips, Robert; Smith, Paul; Foote, Edwin; Silve, Sarah

doi:10.2752/175630614x14056185480069

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“…This study presented a community of designers promoting and practicing Open Design (van Abel et al 2011;Tooze et al 2014) and simultaneously makers experimenting with digital fabrication. It demonstrated what was rendered visible and invisible in the dynamics between discourse and practice: as new practices became routines and as countercontexts met incumbent infrastructures.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Making “Making” Critical: How Sustainability is Constituted in Fab Lab Ideology

Kohtala

2016

The Design Journal

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Fab Labs, fabrication laboratories, are shared workshops where citizens can access digital fabrication equipment to design and make their own objects. They are proliferating rapidly and represent an alternative to mass production and consumption, an ideology whose environmental and social benefits their "makers" like to espouse. A longitudinal ethnographic study in a Fab Lab in a European design school examined the Lab's ideology building, how ideals were enacted and where compromises were visible. Environmental issues were intertwined with other ideological concerns, but they were rarely promoted in their own right. Engagement with sustainability-oriented makers and stakeholders is recommended.

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Making “Making” Critical: How Sustainability is Constituted in Fab Lab Ideology

Kohtala

2016

The Design Journal

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“…In early (also well-cited) work on "open p2p design," Menichinelli emphasized that openness can and should be designed into the process, with the team deciding what phases would be open to others and what would be done by a specified group (Menichinelli, 2008). Tooze et al (2014) Furthermore, open design solutions can reconfigure into different solutions with further contributions (ibid), becoming a continuous design and redesign process (Jones, 1983;Richardson, 2016). Other early well-cited work highlighted how design solutions, parts, and components should be accessible, replaceable and modifiable: i.e.…”

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“…Particularly in practitioners' non-academic literature, but also increasingly in academia, open design is seen and conceptualized as alternative manufacturing or fabrication, a new way to organize and manage design, acts of prosumption or peer production, alternative material culture, and/or explorations in horizontal community organization (Boisseau, Omhover, & Bouchard, 2018;Manzini, 2015;Thackara, 2011;Tooze et al, 2014;van Abel, Evers, Klaasen, & Troxler, 2011). Researchers interested in 'openness,' whether in product design, engineering, HCI, media and communications, management studies, or the natural sciences, appear to be taking up the notion of 'open design' and 'open-source design' to frame their studies.…”

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Framing Open Design through Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications: A Systematic Literature Review

Bakırlıoğlu

Kohtala

2019

Human–Computer Interaction

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This study reports on the results of a systematic literature review on 'open design' in academic fields including and beyond design and HCI. The review investigates how studies are framed as open design and open-source design (including 'open hardware'): how researchers contribute to conceptual theorizing about open design or study its practical operationalization, in do-ityourself 'making,' manufacturing and practices in-between these domains. Most of the papers reviewed were empirical studies from diverse fields. Open design was analyzed not only as contributions and solutions, but also as open-to-participate processes, openly shared processes, and open, closed, and modular (open and closed) outcomes. Various research fields presented an open design framing as an alternative to the status quo: new ways to do business and/or to foster socio-environmental sustainability. On the manufacturing side, open design was sought especially to accelerate innovation cycles; on the making side, it was espoused to foster democratization. However, the studies reviewed indicated that companies do not appear to develop much beyond business-as-usual. From the research perspective, the conceptual potential of open design to promote sustainability saw little practical exploration. Additionally, issues around open design community governance Yekta Bakırlıoğlu

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“…The act of 'making' provides; agency [26], economy [27], craft [28] and control over our material environment [29]. Open Design, digital manufacture and accessible technologies have transformed the access to manipulate/create 'personal products' [30]. Professor of surgical education R. Kneebone, stated, "young people have so little experience of craft skills that they struggle with anything practical", stressing 'making' inexperience is impacting dexterity in operating theatres [31].…”

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Design and Deploying Tools to ‘Actively Engaging Nature’

Phillips

Abbas-Nazari

Tooze

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance

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Shifting Baseline Syndrome' is highly apparent in the context of generational shifts in work and life patterns that reduce interaction with and knowledge of the natural world, and therefore expectations of it. This is exacerbated by changes in the natural world itself due to climate change, biodiversity decline and a range of anthropogenic factors. Distributed and accessible technologies, and grass roots approaches provide fresh opportunities for interactions, which enable active engagement in ecological scenarios. The MyNatureWatch project uses digital devices to collect visual content about UK wildlife, promoting 'active engagements with nature'. The project embodies Inclusive Design in the Digital Age, as the activity; engages a wide demographic community, can be used by all, provided user led agency and produced methodological design lessons. The article frames MyNaturewatch as an agent for active designed engagements with nature. The research objective is to comprehend 'how to design tools for positive nature engagement' holding value for; 1) academic communities as validated methodologies 2) the public through access to enabling technologies, content and knowledge 3) industry in the form of new; experiences, engagements and commerce. The approach is specifically designed to yield insights from a multitude of engagements, through the deployment of accessible, low-cost products. Project reporting documents the benefits, pitfalls and opportunities in the aforementioned engagement uncovered through design-led approaches. Insights are gathered from public/community facing workshops, wildlife experts, ecologists, economists, educators and wildlife NGO's. The engagement methodologies are compared highlighting which initiative yielded 'Active Engagement with Nature'.

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Open Design: Contributions, Solutions, Processes and Projects

Cited by 22 publications

References 5 publications

Making “Making” Critical: How Sustainability is Constituted in Fab Lab Ideology

Making “Making” Critical: How Sustainability is Constituted in Fab Lab Ideology

Framing Open Design through Theoretical Concepts and Practical Applications: A Systematic Literature Review

Design and Deploying Tools to ‘Actively Engaging Nature’

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