Author: Roel Klaassen

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.”