(Un)limited Design Talk with (from left) Michelle Thorne, Ronen Kadushin, Bas van Abel, Roel Klaassen, Jeanne Tan and others

The (Un)limited Design Talk took place on Friday, the 11th of June, during the DMY Maker Lab at the International Design Festival DMY in Berlin. The topic was Open Design and its potential, host was Jeanne Tan, editor at design.nl. This is part 1.

Participants were: Roel Klaassen from Premsela, the Dutch platform for design and fashion; Bas van Abel from Waag Society, a new media think tank; Ronen Kadushin from Berlin, himself a proponent if not the inventor of open design; Michelle Thorne, from Creative Commons where she works as an International Project Manager out of Berlin; Matt Cottam, Amsterdam, co-founder of Tellart, an international design consultancy; Jay Cousins, a thinker, doer, meddler and tinkerer based in Berlin; Aart Helder, also from Premsela, and other members of the audience, including myself.

Music: Illusion by Maersk from MCRP V1 by The Monome Community; available at http://mcrpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/illusion.

Part 1: What is Open Design
Part 2: The Future of Open Design

(Un)limited Design Talk with (from left) Michelle Thorne, Ronen Kadushin, Bas van Abel, Roel Klaassen, Jeanne Tan and others

The (Un)limited Design Talk took place on Friday, the 11th of June, during the DMY Maker Lab at the International Design Festival DMY in Berlin. The topic was Open Design and its potential, host was Jeanne Tan, editor at design.nl. This is part 2.

Participants were: Roel Klaassen from Premsela, the Dutch platform for design and fashion; Bas van Abel from Waag Society, a new media think tank; Ronen Kadushin from Berlin, himself a proponent if not the inventor of open design; Michelle Thorne, from Creative Commons where she works as an International Project Manager out of Berlin; Matt Cottam, Amsterdam, co-founder of Tellart, an international design consultancy; Jay Cousins, a thinker, doer, meddler and tinkerer based in Berlin; Aart Helder, also from Premsela, and other members of the audience, including myself.

Music: Illusion by Maersk from MCRP V1 by The Monome Community; available at http://mcrpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/illusion.

Part 1: What is Open Design
Part 2: The Future of Open Design

Draadijesketting by Aafke Kauffman

As the World of Open is expanding beyond the borders of pure content designers in the Netherlands have gathered for the (Un)limited Design Contest. Numerous designs have been developed and published under a Creative Commons license*. On Friday, 23 October 2009, the lucky winners of the contest were announced at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. There is also an exhibition of the best designs. A World of Open reports from the show. [in Dutch]

Details over the (Un)Limited Design Contest can be found on its website http://unlimiteddesigncontest.nl/

De winnende designs zijn:

• in de categorie Food: Ellen Bokkinga met ‘Amuse vijf’
• in de categorie Form’: Alexander Rulkens met ‘Magic Box’
• in de categorie Fashion: Goof van Beek met ‘Hexagonale papieren jurk’

Binnenkort zijn deze designs bij 0900-Design te koop.

Interviews with the winners Ellen Bokkinga, Alexander Ruklens and Goof van Beek, with Bas van Abel van Waag Society, initiator of the (Un)Limited Design Contest, and designer Jos Oberdorf (npk design) en Gino van Roeyen (Banning Advocaten).

The music used in this edition is Slap Open by Chriss, avaliable under a Creative Commons BY-Share Alike licence.

* The license is the attribution-non commercial-share alike license.

Leo Bassi at oXcars, photo by David Domingo aka sml

Los OXCARS, held on 28 october 2008 in Barcelona, is the major international event of free culture of all times — a not-for-profit gala open to everybody. Over 100 artists … a total of 16 activities … 7 hours non-stop of free culture.

With:

• Simona Levi of Exgae (exgae.net)
• Guillermo Zapata (www.ytodovabien.com)
• Wu Ming One (www.wumingfoundation.com) and Francesco Cusa (www.francescocusa.it)
• Platoniq (www.platoniq.net)
• Jamendo (www.jamendo.com)
• Orxata sound system (www.orxatasoundsystem.net)
• Leo Bassi (www.leobassi.com)
• Brent Simon (www.nerdpunk.com)
• Maquina de Touring (www.maquinadeturing.tk)
• Filastine (www.filastine.com)

However, there is a growing number of repositories of user-generated content: YouTube, Flickr Wikipedia. They use open content models; and Creative Commons Licensing has become a popular extension to traditional copyright terms. During PicNic I had the chance to speak to a few people about these questions, people who are all active in New Media. Using the example of Creative Commons Licensing, I discussed the potential of open content and its possible pitfalls.

With academics Rachel O‘Reilly and Edward Shanken, new media consultant Esa Blomberg, Music Futurist Gerd Leonhard, and the practitiones Hessel van Oorschot (TribeOfNoise), Gijs van de Heuvel (Nederland P), Marcus Miletich (Engerwitzdorf) and Seb Chan (Powerhouse Museum).