http://design-now.org/

1. Design Now
Summer School
Milan 2016
Fab City: Designing Products and Services for Urban
Resilience through Manufacturing

2. Technologies, processes,
participation:
Interesting cases for a Fab City
Tuesday 12/07
Massimo Menichinelli

3. Technologies
(and how they are interconnected)

4. Policies: topics (brief)
● Manufacturing locally, and creating global impact
● Distributed energy production
● Cryptocurrency for a new economy
● Food production and urban permaculture
● Educating for the future
● Building the future circular [spiral] economy
● Collaboration between governments and the civil society

5. Local Manufacturing
Source: http://super-local.org/Hairdryer-1-0

6. Local Manufacturing
Source: http://super-local.org/Hairdryer-1-0

7. Distributed Generation
Source: http://www.makery.info/en/2015/01/19/urbolienne-une-nouvelle-eolienne-open-source-en-ville/

8. Distributed Generation ...
Source: http://www.q-blade.org/

9. (Small) computers computing Bitcoin
Source: https://21.co/buy/

10. Solar Coin
Source: http://solarcoin.org/en/front-page/

11. Local Currencies for local communities
Source: http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/people-powered-money

12. A circular (Fab?) town
Source: http://www.effekt.dk/work#/regenvillages/

13. A circular (Fab?) town
Source: http://www.effekt.dk/work#/regenvillages/

14. A circular (Fab?) town
Source: http://www.effekt.dk/work#/regenvillages/

15. A circular (Fab?) town
Source: http://www.effekt.dk/work#/regenvillages/

16. A circular (Fab?) town
Source: http://www.effekt.dk/work#/regenvillages/

17. Processes

18. A design from autonomous agents
Source: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/rome/

19. Open Source Everywhere, Everything
Source: http://www.wired.com/2003/11/opensource/

20. P2P
Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer

21. P2P-based Design
Source: https://www.kiva.org/lend/1097914

22. P2P-inspired Design
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9cmoT_wb0A

23. Open Design
Source: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/61861

24. A closed ecosystem
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Microsoft_Windows

25. An open ecosystem
Source: http://futurist.se/gldt/

26. An open process
Source: http://www.michaelogawa.com/research/storylines/

27. Supply chains
.
Source: http://free.sourcemap.com/view/5605

28. Supply chains, with Odyssey.JS
.
Source: http://cartodb.github.io/odyssey.js/visualizations/loomstate/ + https://carto.
com/blog/map-of-the-week-an-odyssey-js-story-by-loomstate/

29. Supply chains, made tangible
Source: http://tangible.media.mit.edu/project/supply-chain-visualization/ + https:
//vimeo.com/44533973

30. Participation

31. The Italian Maker Community, mapped
Source: http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2013/social-network-analysis/mappando-la-comunita-italiana-di-makers-e-
fabbing/

32. The Italian Maker Community, mapped
Source: http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2013/social-network-analysis/mappando-la-comunita-italiana-di-makers-e-
fabbing/

33. The Italian Maker Community, mapped
Source: http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2013/social-network-analysis/mappando-la-comunita-italiana-di-makers-e-
fabbing/

34. A project on GitHub, mapped
Source:http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2013/social-network-analysis/mining-the-social-interactions-on-github/

35. A project on GitHub, mapped
Source:http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2013/social-network-analysis/mining-the-social-interactions-on-github/

36. Distributed Networks
Source: Baran, P. (1964). On distributed communications. Santa Monica, CA.: RAND Corporation.

37. A network science approach

38. Reframing the concept: DDD Systems

39. Distributions
Source: http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2007/05/the_power_of_po.html

40. Maker labs?
.
Source: https://www.academia.
edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connection
s

41. Maker labs?
.
Source: https://www.academia.
edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connection
s

42. Maker labs?
Source: Menichinelli, M. (2016). Mapping the structure of the global maker laboratories community through Twitter
connections. In C. Levallois, M. Marchand, T. Mata, & A. Panisson (Eds.), Twitter for Research Handbook 2015 – 2016 (pp.
47–62). Lyon: EMLYON Press. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.44882

43. Fab Labs?
.
Source: data from fablabs.io

44. Fab Labs?
Source: data from fablabs.io

45. Participation?
Source: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/

46. Participation?
Source: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/

47. Participation?
Source: Arnstein, S. R. (1969). A ladder of citizen participation. Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4), 216–
224. Retrieved from http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01944366908977225 + http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-
handbook/arnsteinsladder.html

48. Participation as a tool
Source: https://github.com/OpenDesign-WorkingGroup/Open-Design-Definition

49. Participation in open projects (?)
While researchers are becoming increasingly interested in studying OSS phenomenon, there is
still a small number of studies analyzing larger samples of projects investigating the structure of
activities among OSS developers. The significant amount of information that has been gathered in
the publicly available open-source software repositories and mailing-list archives offers an
opportunity to analyze projects structures and participant involvement. In this article, using on
commits data from 263 Apache projects repositories (nearly all), we show that although OSS
development is often described as collaborative, but it in fact predominantly relies on radically
solitary input and individual, non-collaborative contributions. We also show, in the first published
study of this magnitude, that the engagement of contributors is based on a power-law distribution.
Source: Chełkowski, T., Gloor, P., & Jemielniak, D. (2016). Inequalities in Open Source Software Development: Analysis of
Contributor’s Commits in Apache Software Foundation Projects. PLOS ONE, 11(4), e0152976. http://doi.org/10.
1371/journal.pone.0152976

50. Cities and national economy
Source: ? OECD Data

51. Networks, Policies, ...
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-tOghblfE

52. Summer School

53. Projects
● Not finished in 5 days: communication is more important
than project depth & debugging
● Project = a story about a possible side of a Fab City
● Project = an idea we could discuss with stakeholders
● Location-based storytelling with Odyssey.JS

54. Process: Gantt (first version)

55. Process: Gantt (second version)

56. Service Design Tools
Source: http://servicedesigntools.org/

57. Service Design Tools: Personas
Source: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/a-closer-look-at-personas-part-1/

58. Service Design Tools: System Map
Source: http://servicedesigntools.org/tools/28

59. Projects
● Concept? Today, during the morning
● Stakeholders? Today, during the morning
● Manufacturing plan? Today, during the afternoon
● Documentation / Odissey.JS? Tomorrow

60. Thank you!
massimo@fablabbcn.org
@openp2pdesign