Program

Ronen Kadushin (b. 1964) is an Israeli designer and design educator living in Berlin since 2005. He taught furniture design and design creativity courses at leading Israeli and European design academies since 1993. In 2004 Kadushin developed the Open Design concept, where the designs of his products can be downloaded, copied, modified and produced, much as in Open Source software.
Based on this concept, he formed Open Design, a design and production company for furniture, lighting and accessories which are produced in Berlin and sold in Europe and the USA. Open Design products are regularly presented in solo and group exhibitions world wide, and published in professional literature. Kadushin is teaching Open design courses in universities and speaks at conferences. He is the author of the Open Design Manifesto.

Talk : Open Design - Products in a networked culture

A revolution in product development, production and distribution is imminent due to the Internet’s disruptive nature and the easy access to CNC machines. Open Design is a proposal to make this happen. It’s aim is to shift Industrial Design to become relevant in a globally networked information society. The presentation introduces some of my Open Design work, its context, essentials and insights expressed through this new design method. It describes some realizations about industrial design and its relations to the Internet revolution, creativity, education and consumerism. I will also talk about the new design movement that is emerging around various Open Culture communities, platforms and individuals, its design concepts and attitudes.
Open Design

Peter Kirn

MeeBlip

Greg Saul

Piccolo

Julian Oliver

Critical Engineering

Addie Wagenknecht - Nortd Labs

Over the last half decade Nortd Labs’ open source hardware has been built and used by thousands of people, labs, hackerspaces and universities worldwide. Nortd believes that people should collaborate globally and create locally. Nortd predominantly merges themselves in open software authoring, post-industrial art and hardware engineering. The result is typically work with an inviting openness and an imminent drive to unravel the mystification and black boxes of this century. Nortd was founded in 2006 by Addie Wagenknecht and Stefan Hechenberger.

Nortds’ work has been covered by outlets such as Forbes, BBC, MIT Technology Review, The Economist and ARTform. Most recently, Nortd held a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, under Golan Levin and were Researchers in Residence at Hyperwerk Institute for Post-industrial Design.

Talk : The Lasersaur Project

The Lasersaur is about bringing industrial production to a new collaboration model. Practically every human activity is going through profound changes as we can effectively coordinate group action in a peer-to-peer fashion. This marks a departure from compartmentalized knowledge and hierarchical management to people working together on a level playing field.

The Lasersaur is also community of artist, engineers and makers that has been imagining and creating an open source, low-cost, high performance technological framework with the paramount goal of easy replication. These DIY-fabricated machines can be used to help build a new sustainable economic model that is open and accessible to everybody.

Starting with the Lasersaur, an open source laser cutter, we are engaging in a long term design marathon to push personal fabrication towards a mainstream movement that will eventually change how we design, produce, and consume everyday objects. Laser cutters, like 3D printers, routers and mills, belong to a class of robotic machines that tremendously enable makers. This fabrication hardware is filling a gap between idea and industrial production. The Lasersaur Project is a design movement that celebrates small series, customized and locally fabricated products. This is to say, the community is about opening and defining new fertile grounds of creation.
Lasersaur