Do You Design “Open” Already?
March 19th, 2009 by Frans Posted in Berlin & Germany, DesignOver the last years, Open Source Software has developed from a playground for hackers towards something defining for the mainstream market. But as there’s more areas where copyrights play an important role, there’s more work to do…
Nowadays music, culture, science, agriculture are all frontlines for heavy patent and copyright battles, a struggle between corporations interests and those of smaller organizations, farmers, musicians, and consumers. Often here it’s really about life or death, if medicins are available or not, if one single company can own the copyright of a species or of human DNA.
A lot of young people have grown up witha free availability of information, and apply this towards everything non-material. The future lies in open source and free access, because it’s in the mindset of the youth.
Now, here in Berlin there’s an active open source scene of webdevelopers and people from the cultural scene exchanging their vision and work in this field. Their mission is to create platforms for open collaboration.
Next Thursday in the Newthinking Store there’s a workshop on OPEN DESIGN, organized by Creative Commons and Open Everything, and as their aim is creative collaboration, there might follow a lot of interesting projects.
One of the first collaborations form the designer corner was the cooperation of Open Source Fashion Label Pamoyo and the theatre company Gutestun, with the Open Source Theatre Performance Copy Me (video), which had a premiere in Bordeaux and recently showed in Berlin.
I think there’s a lot of potential for this issue and we will hear more of this. But where’s the fashion scene hiding?
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