From ‘Do it yourself’ to ‘Open design’: users’ involvement and democratization

Maldini, Irene

doi:10.5151/design-icdhs-080

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“…Mari's autoprogettazione is still an explicit source of inspiration for many designers (Almqvist, 2022), and his wood furniture was used in the display of the Enzo Mari exhibition, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli at the Triennale in Milan (2020-21). The recent fascination with 1970s-DIY designs can also be explained by the rise in popularity of Open design projects (Maldini, 2012).…”

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Do-It-Yourself Design in Times of Oil Crisis: From Nomadic Furniture to Metamobile (1973–74)

Nannini

2023

DIID

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This paper explores some of the consequences of the 1973 oil crisis on Western industrial design. Between 1973 and, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, designers reacted to the uncertainty caused by the energy crisis with an unprecedented fascination for do-it-yourself solutions. This article discusses Victor Papanek and James Hennessay's Nomadic furniture and Enzo Mari's Proposta per un'autoprogettazione (1974), produced by Dino Gavina within the Simon International Metamobile series in the same year. The scope of this essay is to understand to what extent this sudden surge of interest in DIY furniture design, in the USA and in Italy, can be explained within the historical framework of the 1973 oil crisis.

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confidence: 99%

Do-It-Yourself Design in Times of Oil Crisis: From Nomadic Furniture to Metamobile (1973–74)

Nannini

2023

DIID

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“…The open source movement, sustained by the Internet, allows collaborative creation of products (virtual and physical) by previously unrelated users. These realities question the dominant market's peculiarities-standardization, mass-orientation and closure-which are in contrast with the idea of "openness" (Maldini, 2014). In past years a systematic distance from the real user, and proximity with the "average" user for which "one size fits all," was often present.…”

Section: Research Context: Sustainability and Openness In Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This new landscape is not ruled anymore by economies of scale, and presents real possibilities for innovating in niche markets (Oliveira, Zejnilovic, Canhao, & von Hippel, 2015), creating a long tail of product adaptations (Anderson, 2006). Within this paradigm, a relationship with potential social change is also assumed, sustaining "openness" by the collaboration and interaction of diverse and connected communities (Maldini, 2014). It is important to mention that in software design the concept "openness" has been thoroughly applied and explored both under the points of view of licensing (i.e., open source) and the possibility of re-appropriations (i.e., Wikipedia), through highly iterative and shared processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of Re-Appropriation in Open Design: A Case Study on How Openness in Higher Education for Industrial Design Engineering Can Trigger Global Discussions on the Theme of Urban Gardening

Ostuzzi

Conradie

Couvreur

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IRRODL

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This case study explores the opportunities for students of Industrial Design Engineering to engage with direct and indirect stakeholders by making their design process and results into open-ended designed solutions. The reported case study involved 47 students during a two-weeks intensive course on the topic of urban gardening. Observations were collected during three distinctive phases: the co-design phase, the creation of an open design, and the sharing of these design solutions on the online platform Instructables.com.The open sharing of local solutions triggered more global discussions, based on several types of feedback: from simple questions to reference to existing works and from suggestions to critiques. Also, some examples of re-appropriation of the designed solutions were reported. These feedbacks show the possibilities for students to have a global vision on their local solutions, confronting them with a wider and more diverse audience.The case study shows, on the other hand, the difficulty in keeping students engaged in this global discussion, considering how after a few weeks the online discussions dropped to an almost complete silence. It is also very difficult with such online platforms to follow the re-appropriation cycles, losing the possibility of exploring the new local context where the replication/modification of the designed product occurred. The course’s focus on open design is interesting from both the design and educational points of view. It implies a deep change in the teaching approach and learning attitude of students, allowing unknown peers to take part in the design process and fostering a global discussion starting from unique and local solutions.

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“…Most research studies in this field focused on topics such as the involvement of the user in the design and production processes (Maher, Paulini, & Murty,2012;Maldini, 2012) or on the improvement of the process itself (Mele, Russo Spena, & Colurcio, 2010). However, in this scenario, it could be interesting to understand the reasons for success and the critical issues of an open business.…”

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Networked production and outsourced design. A comparison of three case studies

Gasparotto

2017

The Design Journal

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Openness is a common feature in the contemporary design field. It may be found in both production and design processes, and enables the ability to spread information, create networks and connect people, skills or companies. In the last few year many new web platforms have based their business model on crowdsourcing, networking and on collective intelligence, envisioning new relations between the customer, the designer and the production system. Today not all of them are still on the market, and others have taken new directions. This paper presents a comparison of the path of three design companies: Opendesk, Quirky and Formabilio. The first company is still flourishing, the second changed its intent in part and the third closed after three years of activity. All these platforms have some points in common: they are design companies, they produce objects, their work is based on using internet and they create networks.The paper seeks to analyze these similarities, as well as the differences between these companies, by focusing the role of design, the methods of production and distribution, and the degree of openness in each of them.

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From ‘Do it yourself’ to ‘Open design’: users’ involvement and democratization

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Do-It-Yourself Design in Times of Oil Crisis: From Nomadic Furniture to Metamobile (1973–74)

Do-It-Yourself Design in Times of Oil Crisis: From Nomadic Furniture to Metamobile (1973–74)

The Role of Re-Appropriation in Open Design: A Case Study on How Openness in Higher Education for Industrial Design Engineering Can Trigger Global Discussions on the Theme of Urban Gardening

Networked production and outsourced design. A comparison of three case studies

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