JORIS LAARMAN’S EXPERIMENTS

WITH OPEN SOURCE DESIGN

Yuichi Hirose

MODERNISM

AND

OPEN SOURCE DESIGN

?

Jorris Laaman

as

contemporary Rietveld

Rietveld

also shared his blueprints

But

no network

no digital manufacturing tool

then..

Now it’s getting general.

Open Source Design

gives fairer and honest prices

is democratic

is self-determined

The brand adds 300% to the price

and the shop doubles it again.

(That’s what Papanek

hoped for design..)

Fears for Open Source Design

waste?

copyright?

Laarman is not in favor of

amateurism,

he wants to make a SYSTEM

which filter the good from the bad.

1.

Professional FabLab

where you can customize any

blueprints and fab them.

2.

Make-Me.com

a platform for open source design

really inclusivenot only for designers but for everyone

“DIY bio-labs where scientists and doctors

could access research and make their own

medicines”

“even a place you could go to for a new haircut”

(Seems it’s like the internet..

it become not only for engineers

and researchers.

It’s real infrastructure now.)

But

there is a chicken-and-egg situation

unless designers feel that their financial income and copyright

dues are guaranteed, they are not going to take the risk – and

without enough designers taking the risk, it will be virtually

impossible to erect the solid infrastructure to ensure smooth,

safe and legal operations.

“I don’t want to say that this idea could take over the entire

production world but it can certainly help craftspeople to make

things that are not standardized or mass produced. If a world-

wide network of craftspeople grows, then this could potentially

really change things.”

Another decade of discussion is needed before open source

design will ever be able to make a tangible difference.

Interestingly, the same arguments being used against the

phenomenon now are the very same arguments that were once

used against the introduction of democracy. The ruling elite will

always feel threatened by the idea of giving power to the

people.

Another decade of discussion is needed before open source

design will ever be able to make a tangible difference.

Interestingly, the same arguments being used against the

phenomenon now are the very same arguments that were once

used against the introduction of democracy. The ruling elite will

always feel threatened by the idea of giving power to the

people.

HOW?!