Sharing & downloading objects?The future of Open Design and Personal FabricationProf. dr. Frederik Questier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Guest lecture at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, 16/10/2010

This presentation can be found athttp://questier.com

http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier

Belgium

Brussels

Atomium building © www.atomium.be - SABAM 2010; photo CC-by-nc-sa by fatboyke Luc B

Atomium building © www.atomium.be - SABAM 2010; photo CC-by-sa by Emilio Garcia

Bruges

The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the elder 1568

Carnaval de Binche

Student folklore

Country of 1000 beers

My background

➢ Teaching courses:

➢ Educational Technologies

➢ Learning Technologies

➢ Virtual Learning Environments

➢ E-learning design

➢ Departments

➢ Interdisciplinary Teacher Training

➢ Educational Sciences

➢ Former head of center for

➢ Education innovation

➢ Teacher staff training

➢ Virtual learning Environment

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My research interests

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Research and Innovation Director

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“On the Internet,nobodyknows

you're a dog”

Peter SteinerNew Yorker

2000

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In China:

“On the Internet,everybody

knowsyou're a dog”

This visionmight be closer

to 2010 Internet reality!

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"In the knowledge economy,

the best strategy is

to overinvest in connecting power.

Competitive advantage accrues to

those who invest more than their competitors

to connect to more people

and share knowledge faster and farther."

--Jim Botkin, Smart Business: How Knowledge Communities

Can Revolutionize Your Company

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On the Internet everybodycan contribute as

artistteacher

publisherjournalist

broadcasterprogrammerphotographer

industrial designer...

Both professional and amateur...

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"The most fundamental way of helping other people,

is to teach peoplehow to do things better

or how to better their lives.

For peoplewho use computers,this means sharing

the recipesyou use on your computer,

in other wordsthe programs you run."

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Free Software

➢The freedom to

➢ use

➢ study

➢ improve

➢ redistribute

the program

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The software Freedomsrequire access to the source code

→ “Open Source Software”Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)

Source code: if encrypt(password) == encryptedpassword, then login=1, end

Compiled code: 001001011101010011001100001111011000110001110001101

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Creating wealth by sharing"Seven open source business strategies for competitive advantage”

John Koenig, IT Manager's Journal, 2004

“Companies continue to waste their development dollars on software functionality that is otherwise free and available through Open Source. They persist in buying third-party proprietary platforms or creating their own proprietary development platforms that deliver marginal product differentiation and limited value to customers”

Picture reproduced with permission

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Creative Commons

Share what you want,keep what you want

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www.creativecommons.org

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38Frederik Questier at the MIT Miracle of Science Bar, 2009

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You will have tocompete with

the world!

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You will have tocompete with

amateurs!

An enthusiastic amateur beatsa bored professional

“Karl Marx was perhapsthe original prophet of the

Professional Amateurs economy:

labour– forced, unspontaneous

and waged work –would be superseded

by self-activity”

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You will have tocompete with

free!

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Wha

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Em

brac

e or

Die

!

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Openmicro-

controllers

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Arduino based airplanes

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OpenMoko Neo 1973

Open DesignOpen Hardware

Open Source Software

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“Rally Fighter” from Local MotorsCrowd-sourced Open Source design

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Open Fab Labs in > 45 cities

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RepRap50% self-replicating

50% off the shelf350€ = 3000RMB

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Challenge: how to get the money?

Producing Open Source Softwarecosts time

Producing Open Source Hardware

costs time and money

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How to make money withOpen Source Hardware or Design?

➢ OSH Business Models➢ sell consultancy➢ sell training➢ sell custom designs➢ sell distributions of designs (nicely packaged)➢ sell the manufactured objects, while keeping ahead of competition➢ sell software tools for design➢ sell hardware tools➢ dual licensing➢ advertizements

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Similar revolutions?

➢ Personal computing➢ Personal manufacturing

➢ Desktop computing➢ Desktop manufacturing

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Far Future? Star Trek Replicators

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DARETO SHARE

Copyright acknowledgements➢ Belgium in EU Map CC-by-sa by NuclearVacuum

➢ Belgium map, Public Domain

➢ The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the elder 1568

➢ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asterix_in_Belgium.jpg

➢ Atomium building © www.atomium.be - SABAM 2010; photo CC-by-nc-sa by fatboyke Luc B

➢ Atomium building © www.atomium.be - SABAM 2010; photo CC-by-sa by Emilio Garcia

➢ Gilles de Binche CC-by-nc-nd by Fabrice Huin

➢ Saxophone CC-by-nc-nd by Bruno Bollaert

➢ Graspop Metal Meeting Festival 2008 CC-by-sa by Jtesla16

➢ Pralines, screenshot Neuhaus website

➢ Moules frites: CC-by-nc-sa by poluz – Nicola

➢ Belgian Beers: CC-by-nc-sa by Adam Lang

➢ Brussels Waffle CC-by-sa by David Monniaux

➢ Screenshot http://www.chamilo.org/

➢ Tax Shelter screenshot, http://minfin.fgov.be/portail2/belinvest/en/taxshelter/presentation.htm

➢ Figure study CC-by-nc-sa by Tony2 (NOT IN USE!)

➢ Embrace CC by Robbert van der Steeg

➢ Question! CC-by by Stefan Baudy

➢ Screenshot http://diydrones.com/

➢ Star Trek Replicator http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Coffee_replicates_then_mug.jpg Copyright Paramount Pictures and/or CBS Studios

➢ Share Candle Light CC-by-nc by Mr.Tea Stephen Train

➢ Social Network CC-by by Frederik Questier

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Active/Manipulative - Collaborative - Complex - Constructive - Contextualized - Conversational - Intentional - Reflective

Questions? Comments?Questions? Comments?谢谢谢谢

See also http://questier.com