“ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN DESIGN” - overview – Form OPEN DESIGN NOW

2012/10/22 Master‘s Program of the Graduate School of Media and Governance 1 year

Daisuke Nakahara

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Open design by Paul Atkinson

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The concept of open design

- Sharing of knowledge between the professional and amateur designer

- Downloadable design by the internet-enabled collaborative creation

Paul Atkinson

Back to the Future

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DIY(Do It Yourself )

- Productive leisure

- A source of tension in the relationship between amateur and professional

Emergence of

domestic versions of

professional power

tools, beginning

with the electric drill

Back to the Future

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Technological developments

- The individual handyman could fairly easily design

- professions became more and more specialized

- beyond the capabilities of DIY practitioners

Productive leisure

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Co-creation

- distancing of the professional from the amateur

- user-centred design processes

- user is involved in the creative process

- anonymous participants

- Community

User-centred design processes

by ISO9241-210: 2010

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Rapid Prototyping

- Network of the internet

- Downloadable design

- A returning of the Industrial Revolution

The whistles, Rapid

Prototyping HELLO

WORLD technology

of DIY 3D printing

Productive leisure

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‘Model 1 Fabber’ from Fab@Home

Open source versions of machines

the self-replicating rapid prototyper

the ‘RepRap9’

http://www.reprap.org/wiki/RepRap

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Aspects for their products

- more user-friendly interfaces, or more intuitive systems

The cult of the amateur

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The web portal of Future Factories

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Future Factories

Automake’s product creation process in relation to traditional craft and industrial processes

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The web portal of Future Factories

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Future Factories

Example of build software interface Silver plated RP bracelet designed

using software

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Nowdays designer’s role

- from creating fixed products to a more fluid digital

presence

- not be totally in control of the content constantly being added to their original creation

- e.g. the music industry, YouTube

The professional designer’s future

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Agent of design

- the audience of end users selecting which designer’s

system they wish to employ

- the terms ‘amateur’ and ‘professional’ may well disappear as we move into this ‘post-professional’ era

The professional designer’s future

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Thank you.