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openp2pdesign.orgMetadesign and Strategic Design for Open Design Projects

Massimo Menichinelli

Open 2009 November 6th 2009Media Lab University of Art and Design Helsinkihttp://mlabsymp.uiah.fi/2009/

01.openp2pdesign.org, and where it started

What is openp2pdesign.org?

It's a Strategic Design project that offers Open P2P Design projects

It's not a startup (yet) but an hub in the Open Design network

Strategic Design: “the integrated body of products, services and communication strategies that business and social actors conceive and develop to obtain a set of specific strategic results”http://www.polidesign.net/mds/

Yes, but what is Open P2P Design?

Where do openp2pdesign.org and Open P2P Design come from?

* March 2005* a young student started his master degree thesis in

industrial design (actually it became service design soon) * Design researchers were studying Design+Locality:

* Spark! Design and Locality (Europe) http://www2.uiah.fi/virtu/spark/index.html

* Me.Design (Italy)http://www.sistemadesignitalia.it/sdi/ricerche/medesign/index.php

--> How can we design projects for a locality and its community?

--> How can we enable the participation of a community in the design process?

http://www2.uiah.fi/virtu/spark/index.html

http://www.sistemadesignitalia.it/sdi/ricerche/medesign/index.php

Free Software/Open Source and P2P were just breaking into other disciplines...

* Open Source Everywherehttp://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html

* Open Publishing* Open Content* Open Biotechnology* Open Source Religion* Open Cola / Open Beer* Open Design* (...and more coming later)

Fre Software, Open Source and P2P as promising way to organise communities

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html

Source: http://www.thinkcycle.org

Designing Open Collaborative projects: Thinkcyclehttp://www.thinkcycle.org (now closed)http://web.media.mit.edu/~nitin/thesis/

This is... Open Design!

http://www.thinkcycle.org/

Source: http://www.designcouncil.info/mt/RED/

Facilitating a P2P system: Open Health by RED (British Design Council)http://www.designcouncil.info/mt/RED/

This is... P2P Service Design!

April 2006, Master Degree Thesis:

Reti Collaborative.Il design per una auto-organizzazione Open Peer-to-Peer(Collaborative Networks.Design for an Open Peer-to-Peer self-organization)

Tutor: Ezio ManziniPolitecnico di Milano, Faculty of Design

You can download it here:http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/texts

http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/texts

02.Open P2P Design: a Metadesign methodology proposal

What is Open P2P Design?

Open Design (design of an open project) +P2P Design (design of a peer-to-peer system)=the co-design of Open P2P social systems

A promising way to design with/for a Community and its Locality

Why Open / P2P forms are promising?

* Open Source is based on Communities* Communities are Complex Systems* Bazaar style enables parallel projects, then evolution, self-

organization and emergence* Complex Systems can solve Complex Problems

Complex Open P2P communities could:--> solve complex problems--> design complex projects--> design complex collaborative activities

Open P2P forms as a design project and a design tool

Ko Kuwabara “Linux: A Bazaar at the Edge of Chaos”http://firstmonday.org

http://firstmonday.org/

Open Source projects as Complex Systems?

Just look at the following pictures...

Innovation in a closed, hierarchical, proprietary, linear project

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Microsoft_Windows

In an Open P2P non-linear project

Source: http://futurist.se/gldt/

What is Open P2P Design?

Open tools +Open process=Enabling Open Systems

--> a proposal for a design methodology

Designers become then Enablers, Facilitators... of distributed creativity

What does Open P2P Design do?

an open design process +a collaborative activity self-organized by a community=an open metadesign / service design project

What we design with Open P2P Design?

* not the community itself and its complexity (social network)* but first the platform (artifacts, rules, roles): all the elements

that once shared enable then the emergence of a: * collaborative activity (and then the emergence and self-

organization of the community)

First the platform, then the collaborative activity

The platform is: * dynamic and shared in the social network* what we can easily design before actually co-designing * necessary in the design process, where it's developed further

Design and collaborative activities

A collaborative activity: * can be designed as a service design project* should be co-designed with users (community)* it's a complex project, so we need complex processes (like

open p2p ones)* we should let it evolve and let the community modify it

Daniela Sangiorgi,Service Design + Activity Theoryhttp://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/despdf/Daniela.pdf

http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/despdf/Daniela.pdf

Where does Open P2P Design come from?

Open Source Software =

processes +licenses +tools +roles +...

Open P2P Design source code:* Reputation Levels * License


Activity Theory =

framework for the analysis of a collaborative activity +...

Open P2P Design source code:* Community Activity Analysis


Service Design (+ Activity Theory) =

design tools +framework for the analysis of a collaborative activity +...

Open P2P Design source code:* System Map




Open P2P Design source code:* Offering Map




Open P2P Design source code:* Service Blueprint




Open P2P Design source code:* Motivation Matrix




Open P2P Design source code:* Storyboard


Action Planning =

Participation Matrix (metadesign tool) +...

Nabeel Hamdi, Reinhard Goethert “Action planning for cities : a guide to community practice”

Open P2P Design source code:* Participation Matrix


Social Network Analysis =

tools +framework for the analysis of a community +…

Open P2P Design source code:* Social Network Analysis

What about the process of Open P2P Design?

* analysis of the existing community, activity and platform* concept design of a collaborative activity* distribution/sharing/discussion of the concept* parallel and iterative co-design of the collaborative activity and

building of the platform* self-organization

--> shaped by knowledge, reputation and participation

What about the process of Open P2P Design?

Why Open P2P Design?

* mass-collaboration/crowdsourcing/distributed creativity force a change in the role of designers

--> designers become enablers of distributed creativity


* it's about mass collaboration-based or community-based activities (and Open Design is an example)

--> designers can find a role even outside design projects


* communities generate innovations as the outcome of collaborative activities

--> a designer becomes an enabler of innovation and change

Why Open P2P Design, then?

* because open collaborative projects can be more than just choosing a license!

* because the best way to reach a new promising scenario is designing it!

* because we can do more in order to enable systems of distributed creativity that can solve complex problems!

03.Why Open P2P Design for Open Design projects?

Where should we use Open P2P Design?

* works well where there are active participants

* within an organization (community, enterprise, public institution), for its own processes

--> Open Innovation, Enterprise 2.0, Open Government, …

* when an organization (community, enterprise, public institution) enables another one

--> Open Marketplaces, Open Innovation, Enterprise 2.0, Open Government, …

* for community-based services / businesses

* for Open Design projects

What is Open Design?

a project published with a license that facilitates its sharing and that can be “compiled” or “manufactured” locally * sharing* collaboration* open licenses* code --> artifact

Open Design refers to every kind of design projects that can be shared in a digital format over a network

What kind of open design projects?

Open Web Design repositories:http://www.openwebdesign.org/http://www.oswd.org/http://osdnetwork.org/http://www.opendesigns.org/

And all the open source software themes, templates,Frameworks, libraries...

It's Open Web Design! GPL, LGPL, CC, ...

http://www.openwebdesign.org/

http://www.oswd.org/

http://osdnetwork.org/

http://www.opendesigns.org/


Open Fonts libraries:http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/http://openfontlibrary.org/http://www.typeforge.net

(Free as in Free Beer, and sometimes Free Speech)http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

It's Open Font Design!http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/

http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/

http://openfontlibrary.org/

http://www.typeforge.net/

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/

http://scripts.sil.org/OFL


Open Processing sketches repository:http://www.openprocessing.org/...

And all the projects that uses Arduino or Processing and are released under an open license:http://harkopen.com/projects...

It's Open Interaction Design! GPL, LGPL, CC, ...

http://www.openprocessing.org/

http://harkopen.com/projects


Open Architecture for markets:http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/projects.htmlhttp://www.openprototype.com

Open Architecture for Humanityhttp://openarchitecturenetwork.org/http://os-house.org/http://www.solaroof.org/

It's Open Architecture! CC, ...

http://architecture.mit.edu/house_n/projects.html

http://www.openprototype.com/

http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/

http://os-house.org/

http://www.solaroof.org/


Open Cinema / Open Movie:http://www.elephantsdream.org/http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/http://durian.blender.org/http://www.thecosmonaut.org/http://thisoneisonus.org/...

It's Open Movie Design!

CC...and also Open Game Design!

http://www.elephantsdream.org/

http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/

http://durian.blender.org/

http://www.thecosmonaut.org/

http://thisoneisonus.org/

Open Design: Ronen Kadushinhttp://www.ronen-kadushin.com/Open_Design.asp

Open Design from a single Designer

Open Design: OpenMokohttp://www.openmoko.com / http://www.openmoko.org

Source: http://www.openmoko.com

Open Design from an enterprise

http://www.openmoko.com/

Source: http://www.openmoko.comIt's also Open Source Software!



Source: http://www.openmoko.comIt's even Open Hardware!



Open Design: Bug Labshttp://www.buglabs.net/

Source http://www.buglabs.net/It's Open Design!It's Open Design, Hardware, Software

...and a Meta-product

http://www.buglabs.net/

Source: http://www.buglabs.net/

Open Design: Bug Labshttp://www.buglabs.net/

...and a Meta-product

It's Open Design!It's Open Design, Hardware, Software

http://www.buglabs.net/

So Open Design is...

* a lot of different kind of projects* in its first steps* starting from, using and including Open Source Software /

Open Hardware* working well when project and artifact are code/digital* still developing tools, business models, processes and

systems when the artifact is a physical good* limited to share a finished project rather than designing it

collaboratively right now

What is Open Design, for rival goods?

a distributed system of design & manufacturing based on: * sharing* collaboration* open licenses* open and distributed projects* open and distributed manufacturing technologies

A system of agents that:

* use* design* manufacture* market

* distribute* manage the

end-of-life* ...

Current approach to Open Design projects

* very few single designers initiatives and designers interested* recent communities (very few succesful ones)* enterprises, hackers more interested in the hardware* fabbing technologies developed by hackers

--> let people design a project and then just publish it online--> lack of new tools, processes, systems that enable

designers and users in developing open design projects

Is it just publishing a file online?

What we can still do for Open Design projects is Metadesign

Metadesign is the design of the design tools, processes and systems

* research and share design knowledge* design and share design tools* design and share design processes* facilitate design & manufacturing & end-of-life systems* facilitate the distributed creativity

For designers For users For enterprisesFor communities

Open Design actually is Metadesign

* a community is designing, not just a single designer* the process is open, and therefore out of control* the process ideally never stops

--> We need Metadesign within single Open Design projects

--> We need Metadesign for making Open Design possible

Shift of focus: from Product Design to Metadesign

Three Layers of Metadesign

* Metadesign of Collaborative Activities: co-design a collaborative activity that will actually design the goal

* Metadesign of Collaborative Activities that design tools: co-design a collaborative activity that will actually design the tools and processes for other Open Projects

* Metadesign of Collaborative Activities that design the Metadesign process: co-design a collaborative activity that will actually redesign the Metadesign process itself

(1) for Open Projects

(2) for tools for Open Processes (3) for rededesigning

itself

Sourcemap as an Open Source Metadesign example

* sharing supply chains* open source* API

--> Research--> Visualize--> Share--> Design

For Open Design we need Metadesign initiatives

Source: http://www.sourcemap.org/

http://www.sourcemap.org/

Open Hardware / Fabbing as a Metadesign example

* Hardware (Arduino, ...)* Fabbing (RepRap, ...)

--> Ecosystem--> Reuse/Remix--> Share--> Design

For Open Design we need Metadesign initiatives

Source: http://www.reprap.org

04.The openp2pdesign.org strategic project

How do we design such Metadesign projects?--> Open P2P Design

How do we offer them in a Strategic Design project?--> openp2pdesign.org

Make Magazine as Metadesign and Strategic Design example

* Make Magazine* Maker Faire* “Makers” Book* Make: television* Make Controller Kit* Craft Magazine

--> Tools, Knowledge, and Systems for DIY--> Metadesign projects offered within a whole Strategic Design

project

For Open Design we need Strategic Design and Metadesign initiatives

What is openp2pdesign.org?

It's the Strategic Design project that offers Open P2P Design Metadesign projects

It's not a startup (yet) but an hub in the Open Design network

So far:1 master degree thesis1 paper1 book4 workshops

Next:3 books1 keynote speech3 workshops1 Open Everything event (?)1-2 open source softwares (?)A larger network

openp2pdesign.org : design knowledge

Book 00: openp2pdesign.org_1.1An introduction to Open P2P Design and openp2pdesign.org

Spreading knowledge about Open P2P Design

openp2pdesign.org : design knowledge (next projects)

Book 01:Open Source tools for Open Design Projects

* Free/Open Source Softwares for Design* Free/Open Source File Formats for Design* Web-based services for Design* ...

Spreading knowledge about Tools


Book 02:Strategic Design and Metadesign for Open Design Projects

* Past and Present of Open Design* The Distributed Manufacturing Scenario* Metadesign guide for Open Design projects* ...

Spreading knowledge about Processes for Open Design projects


Book 03:Open P2P Design: Metadesign for Complex Projects

* Open P2P Design* Design & Complexity* Metadesign guide for Collaborative Activities* ...

Spreading knowledge about Processes for open collaborative activities

openp2pdesign.org : a proposal for a project

Software(s):Collaborative Design tools

* Version Control System for Open Design projects+* Web-based Open Design Forge for Open Design projects

Needs:* Open Source* Multiplatform* Open file formats* Scripting/API

A tool that visualizes:* processes* resources* networks* interactions * history* reputation

openp2pdesign.org : not just a blog, but a network

* it has always been intended as the start for a collective effort

* publishing house?* community/social network?* design agency?* …

* Design and Open P2P / Complexity / Locality / Sustainability

* an Open P2P community and Open P2P Design as its first source code

Do you have any advice?Do you want to join us?

05.Open P2P Design and Open Design projects for the Distributed Manufacturing Scenario

Design for a (Distributed) Scenario

Open projects seem very fascinating, but are they really going to make a change? In order to make Open (P2P) Design a truly changing and problem-solving discipline:

* we need to analyze current problems* we need to define possible new scenarios that address these

problems* we need to design strategic projects to reach these scenarios* we need to metadesign processes for collective and distributed

action

--> May an Open, P2P and Distributed Scenario be the answer?

Design for the current Scenario

We need to recognize the scarcity of some resources: * water/food* oil/energy* materials* money

We need to recognize the abundance of some resources: * knowledge/information* distributed software, hardware and omputing power

--> A Scenario where design is used not to produced more objects but to valorize scarce physical resources and to share intellectual ones

Design for a new, Distributed Scenario

Based on:* energy: distributed generation* physical goods: distributed manufacturing* financial resources: open money

And we need to redefine Design and its:* identity* knowledge* social networks* roles* processes* limits/choices

--> Let's redefine and use Design for enabling Distributed Systems

Problems and Limits of Open Projects

* lack of specific tools/softwares* some hardware/services need to evolve more* we need systems of services and technologies * open alone does not mean a project will be succesful, it needs a

market, businesses models and marketing initiatives * open and p2p processes are very flexible (and can be used for wrong

projects too)* open and p2p dynamics still not so widely understood and accepted* need for education about open p2p concepts first (and tools and

processes then)

--> Let's work on these issues, in an open and p2p way!

Any questions or comments?

Thank you!

Massimo Menichinelli

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