This document discusses the role of designers in an era where design has been democratized through open design movements and technologies like 3D printing. It argues that designers can take on the role of "metadesigners" who shape environments and tools to allow non-designers to engage in design. Specifically, metadesigners can create parametric design interfaces and promote inclusive design. However, open design also faces challenges around costs, motivating participation, and ensuring only appropriate things are created. Overall, open design should continue developing but also take these problems seriously.

1. Design Theory (Ambient Media)
REDESIGNING DESIGN / JOS DE MUL

2. This article problems……
What designer can do under the
situation in which design has
been democratized ?

3. The answer is……
Designer as a Meta-Designer.

4. Humans vs Animals.
in philosophical meaning.

5. Argument 1. by the biologist, Jakob von Uexküll.
Animals are limited into each of
the Umwelt.
Umwelt means the environment which is
perceived by the Sensory system unique to the
species respectively.

6. Argument 2. by the philosopher, Martin Heidegger.
Although animals are in the
environment which is given,
humans have to design their
own world.
The german word, Dasein means ‘being-in-the-world’.
The author implies that Dasein is Design(er).

7. Today’s exploration of human openness is ……
- Wikipedia, the open dictionary.
- MP3, the open(-source) audio compression.
- FabLab, the open design movement.

8. From Bits to Atoms.
- by 3D printer.
- by laser cutter.
- by milling machine, etc.

9. Then, the question is re-set to……
Does FabLab lose the profession
of (old-type) designer ?

10. Now, we can concrete the initial answer “Metadesigner”.
Metadesigner is the designer
who shapes environments in
which unskilled users can design.
- to the parametric design via GUI.
- to the inclusive design.

11. Image of Metadesign
DATABASE } Metadesign(er)
(Mass)Customization
MATERIAL OBJECTS } Old-type
Design(er)

12. However, there are 4 problems about making
(not digital data but) physical objects.
- its cost, or its difficulty to share.
- people’s motivation to make things.
- cloudsourcing can fall in folly of the crowds.
- about moral - What should NOT be created.

13. “Although we have to take these
problems seriously, they should
not lead to the conclusion that
we should avoid further
development of open design.”

14. Design Theory (Ambient Media)
REDESIGNING DESIGN / JOS DE MUL
REDESIGNING “REDESIGNING DESIGN”
/ tomohta

15. I agree with the philosophical basement
- Uexküll and Heidegger -
of Open design, but partly.

16. Koichiro Kokubun,
Ethics in the leisure and boredom
- What is the humane life ? - (2011)

17. This book problems……
Why are we bored in this rich,
free, and enjoyable society ?

18. Kokubun coined the word……
Inter-Umwelt Mobility.
People have Umwelt too,
but they can move one from another;
animals can also (partly) do.

19. Do people start to design soon
after preparing ‘environment’ ?
Too emphasizing human’s openness to new
environment can fall in forgetting that
design is NOT easy.

20. Only after recognizing hard to
create the new environment, we
can start to think Metadesign
- as the design education.

21. Self-Introduction
Tomoya Ohta
- B3 @Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
- DaijiroMizunoLab.
- Reading Science Fiction.
- Reading Japanese Critique.
- and I love WIRED and tumblr.