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“To work on open source design means to publish creative work with an open license, giving the community a chance to reuse and rework your content in ways you may not have considered. It is also the act of contributing design work to existing open source projects. Both executions of open source design imply that the work is open to contributions and collaboration from outside designers.” [1]
“The removal of the term open source from the name of Open Source Design to Design Open does not signify we are going to stop encouraging designers to open source their work, or to collaborate on open source projects. On the contrary, we want to encourage all designers to become familiar with open source and make contributions to projects they care about.” [1]
“The removal of the term open source from the name of Open Source Design to Design Open does not signify we are going to stop encouraging designers to open source their work, or to collaborate on open source projects. On the contrary, we want to encourage all designers to become familiar with open source and make contributions to projects they care about.” [1]
Considered both as a philosophy and a production methodology, ‘open source’ is a term that describes practices that promote access to a product's source materials, allowing freedom of modification and derivation. Originally, the term refers to open-source software, that is, the sharing of the source code so that it can be appropriated and modified by a community. This principle of openness extends to other domains of creative production considered potentially open. Such is the case of open design, which follows the same objectives and philosophy of openness, knowledge sharing, peer collaboration and do-it-yourself (DIY) or do-it-with-others (DIWO) methodologies.
Considering that, today, “openness is more than a commercial and cultural issue. It’s a question of survival”, as stated by John Thackara, this project proposes an introduction to the topic inspired by my own brief initiation journey, which was primarily motivated by reading Richard Stallman's GNU manifesto, as a fundamental philosophical source for the open software movement.
OPEN > < SOURCE > < DESIGN is a website that focuses on the confluence of open source and open design. Based on a research and collection of concepts, tools and related communities, this website provides an introductory lexicon and a list of tools. Following the principles of openness and co-creation, it assigns its users an active role in the management of the available resources. It seeks to introduce principles of knowledge sharing, community building or co-creation and, as such, captivate designers to become critically involved with technologies and production methodologies of their craft.
project by Vanessa Lança > < 1º year, master’s degree in communication design > < FBAUL, 2020/2021
Considering that, today, “openness is more than a commercial and cultural issue. It’s a question of survival”, as stated by John Thackara, this project proposes an introduction to the topic inspired by my own brief initiation journey, which was primarily motivated by reading Richard Stallman's GNU manifesto, as a fundamental philosophical source for the open software movement.
OPEN > < SOURCE > < DESIGN is a website that focuses on the confluence of open source and open design. Based on a research and collection of concepts, tools and related communities, this website provides an introductory lexicon and a list of tools. Following the principles of openness and co-creation, it assigns its users an active role in the management of the available resources. It seeks to introduce principles of knowledge sharing, community building or co-creation and, as such, captivate designers to become critically involved with technologies and production methodologies of their craft.
project by Vanessa Lança > < 1º year, master’s degree in communication design > < FBAUL, 2020/2021