Bas van Abel & Lucas Evers 
Open Design [EPUB ebook] 
Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive

Open Design Now looks at design in the new networked world. Design is becoming an open discipline, in which ideas are shared and products are being renewed in a worldwide collaborative process. Open Design empowers everybody to devise and distribute their own products. This book presents essays, case studies, a lexicon of images related to the main topics and practical guidelines for designers, design educators and policy makers to get started with Open Design.

Over de auteur

Peter Troxler is an independent researcher and developer with a
history as a project manager, theatre director, community steward and
industrial engineer. For Peter, “open design is a practice that borrows its
operating principles from open source software and applies them in the domain
of design. It conveys knowledge about its products transparently, communicating
its nature within the products themselves. As a peer-oriented form of
production, it makes production tools, methods and experience accessible to
everybody as a common infrastructure; it gives people options for controlling
their productivity. It is continually evolving, appearing and reappearing in
various shapes, sometimes producing contradictory manifestations.”