Rambla del Raval, 17-21, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona (Show map)

A design hotel set in Barcelona’s vibrant Raval district, with free Wi-Fi, a gym and a roof terrace with pool and one of the best panoramic views of the city.

Special bed & breakfast rates for attendees between 4 and 7 July

Double room for individual use: 130 € **
Double room for double use: 140 € **

** Price per room and night, includes 10% VAT. Does not include tourist tax of 1.21€ / person / day

To take advantage of this offer you have to contact the bookings department of the Hotel Barceló-Raval and give them the reference ODSC.

BOOKING CONTACT DETAILS FOR BARCELÓ-RAVAL:
Tel: 0034.93.320.14.90
raval.res@barcelo.com

More information on the hotel can be found here.

Process, Community, Business: the systems behind Open Design

After more than 10 years of development, Open Design is no longer an underground hypothesis, but a real strategy that designers, companies and design institutions are increasingly embracing. Even so, many aspects of Open Design still need to be developed, tested and defined, making the future of Open Design still open.

This openness is what is making Open Design very promising, a global concept with local and distributed adaptations: not only Open Design projects can be modified and customized, but the same processes and systems behind such projects can be designed and modified in order to fit the specific needs of each locality. There is no single format, business model, system or organization model for Open Design at the moment, and this fact lets Open Design to be adopted and used in a different way in each locality. Designers are increasingly focusing on the systems that enable Open Design projects, which can be designed and developed with design tools and processes and tools and processes from other fields by working on the metadesign level.

How can we organize Open Design initiatives? What are the processes behind Open Design? How can we understand the participation of a community in an Open Design project? What about the business models of Open Design?

Massimo Menichinelli is a designer who researches and develops open, collaborative, and co-design projects and the systems that enable them since 2005. He uses design tools and processes in order to help companies, organizations, cities and local communities to develop open and collaborative processes, business, services, places and projects such as Open Design, FabLab and User-driven Open and Social Innovation initiatives. Massimo has given lectures and workshops in various countries including Italy, Spain, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom, Mexico, South Korea and Singapore so far.

He recently worked on the development of the Aalto FabLab, co-organized the first Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki and co-founded the Open Design Working Group at the Open Knowledge Foundation. He lectures on Digital Fabrication and Open Design at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland) and Open Design at SUPSI (Lugano, Switzerland). He is currently developing the MUSE FabLab (Trento, Italy).

www.openp2pdesign.org    @openp2pdesign

Open and distributed: a new world is emerging

Driven by both problems (the environmental, social and economical crisis) and opportunities (the unprecedented organizations that new technologies make viable) a new world is emerging. Its main socio-technical feature is being open and distributed. That is, based on open and distributed systems for what regards its infrastructure (information and energy) and its design, production and consumption processes.

These open and distributed systems are the result of complex innovations in which the technological side cannot be separated from social one. In fact, no open and distributed systems can exist without active and collaborative social participation.

The good news is this double trend of technological and social innovation is spreading world-wide. And that design is starting to play a role in it. To do that design experts must redefine both their “what” and their “how”: what are the artefacts to be designed and how the design process evolves if the systems in which they operate become open and distributed. And vice versa: what to do and how to promote and support the diffusion of these new (socially and environmentally sustainable) open and distributed systems.

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Ezio Manzini has been working for more than two decades in the field of design for sustainability, with a special focus on social innovation. On this topic he started, and currently coordinates, DESIS: an international network promoting, world wide, design schools as agents of social change towards sustainability.

Throughout his professional life Ezio Manzini has been professor of design at the Politecnico di Milano. Parallel to this, he collaborated with several international universities. Currently, he is Honorary Guest Professor at the Tongji University, in Shanghai, at the Jiangnan University, in Wuxi, at the COPPE-UFRJ, in Rio de Janeiro. The most recent awards granted to Manzini are the Sir Misha Black Medal, in UK, in 2012, and the Honorary Doctorate at the Aalto University, in Finland, in 2013.

www.desis-network.org *

*DESIS-Design for Social Innovation for Sustainability is a network of design labs based in design schools (or in other design-oriented universities) that promote social innovation towards sustainability. These DESIS Labs exchange experiences and collaboratively develop larger design and research programs.

Re-engineering the world
How open design contributes to social innovation

In the eighties it was the personal computer, in the nineties it was the public Internet, and this century it is personal fabrication that empowers our civil society. The last 30 years we saw several other movements that led to an open innovation model: open source, open content and open design. How do these changes affect existing production chains and how will they affect the way we exchange value? Are the current economic models still valid? Are we moving into a peer2 peer economy and is open design one of the disruptive forces behind this change?

Marleen Stikker will address these issues, whilst discussing two major endeavours of Waag Society in applying open design for social innovation: the FairPhone and The Open Prosthesis.

Marleen Stikker (1962) is founder of De Digitale Stad (The Digital City) in 1994, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the internet. She is founder of Waag, a social enterprise that consists of Waag Society, a research Institute for creative technologies and social innovation and Waag Products, the incubator that launched successful companies like 7scenes, a mobile learning and gaming platform and Fairphone, the first fair smartphone in the world. Stikker is chair of PICNIC, the leading European event for the creative industries, an innovation platform hosted yearly in Amsterdam and member of the supervisory board of WPG Publishers, an independent publishing group.

Marleen Stikker strongly adheres to the Maker’s Bill of Rights motto “If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It”. Waag Society is actively involved in the Open Design and Creative Commons movement and believes that society needs open technologies that meet societal challenges.

www.waagsociety.nl    @waag    @marleenstikker

Open Source Design and the Impact of the 3rd Industrial Revolution

Open Source —standing on the shoulders of giants— is the preferred mode of production, insight and creativity today, and even more so when the 3rd industrial revolution starts to take effect: distributed and collaborative relationships, and a shift away from hierarchical power and toward lateral power.

The 3rd industrial revolution is bringing affordable digital tools into the sphere of manufacturing and beyond: Affordable tools do not require huge capital investments; they bridge the labour-capital-divide, the owner-maker is re-emerging. Digital tools connect designing and manufacturing, they bridge the white collar-blue collar-divide, the designer-producer is having a comeback. Affordable digital tools also spread outside the industrial world, they bridge the producer-consumer-divide in new and powerful ways.

Open source practice in software is characterized by structures that ‘resemble a great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches’. Similar practices have yet to evolve in (open) design. Is it conceivable that a design brand start to release beta products early and often, to delegate designing to the ‘users’, and to involve those ‘users’ as beta testers? How likely are designers to share semi-finished work with colleagues, even from different disciplines or the other side of the world, and to accept that others might take their intermediary results, sketches and models, continue to work on them and turn them into next-step intermediary results that are quite different to what the initial designer conceived them to be?

There is a small micro cosmos out there, the global network of Fab Labs, where some of these questions can be explored. Fab Labs are pretty popular with designers, but larger scale co-operative projects have so far been in the domains of engineering and education. What would be the reason: Is it a lack of interest, a disbelief in the power of the results, a missing skill, an absent opportunity, too early to tell—or are we just not seeing the projects?

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Peter Troxler is a Research Professor at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences on the topic of the Revolution in Manufacturing. His field of research is the impact of readily available direct digital manufacturing technologies and the design and manufacturing practice of “fabbers” and “makers” on the creative and manufacturing industries, and the emergence of networked co-operation paradigms and business models based open source principles.
Peter is an industrial engineer by training (PhD 1999 from ETH Zurich). He worked in factory automation, attaching robots and automatic tool-changers to CNC milling machines before pursuing his career as a business consultant and later as a research manager at the University of Aberdeen in knowledge technologies and knowledge management.
Since 2007, Peter has been involved in Fab Labs in various ways, initially as a project manager of the Fab Lab Amsterdam, then as co-organizer of the international Fab Lab workshop and symposium in Amsterdam in 2010 and supporting new Fab Labs getting started in Switzerland (Lucerne) and the Netherlands (Rotterdam). In 2012/13 he was the president of the International Fab Lab Association.

www.petertroxler.org  /  @trox

Sharing is caring, except for ice-cream

Many people are chipping into the idea of openess to get a name. What happens when being open becomes a branding operation? Unveiling all your secrets is hard, it requires learning to give away the things that make you unique … or maybe you can be unique because you don’t keep things to yourself.

In this talk David will present cases about things that were open and became close, about things that were closed and opened up, and about how institutions are trying to jump on the bandwagon of openess just because.

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David Cuartielles is Co-founder of the Arduino open source hardware project. Teacher at K3 School of Arts since 2001, was awarded with the Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in 2006, and is head of the Prototyping Laboratory at Malmo University since 2005. Recently created Arduino Verkstad AB, the branch of the Arduino company dedicated to R&D in education and connected objects. The Arduino project is a hardware platform for artists. Arduino is developed under a license similar to the Open Source, which allows any person to have access to the three components of creation: the electronic circuit, the software to program and educational modules to learn how to use it, so that artists and designers without knowledge on electronics sensors can create installations “in a space of only five sessions.”

www.david.cuartielles.com    /   www.arduino.cc    /   @dcuartielles

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Tools for a Read-Write world: Interactivos?13

Interactivos? is a hybrid between an intense collaborative prototyping workshop, a seminar and a showcase. For a period of two weeks artists, designers, developers and educators from various disciplines and levels of expertise work together on projects that are selected through an open call. This platform for reflection, research and experiments has been organised since 2006 by Medialab Prado in Madrid but there have also been editions in Lima, Mexico city, Dublin, and Ljubljana. The workshops expand the use of electronic and software tools for artists and grow local and international communities of cultural producers.
For the 2013 edition we focused on developing tools to design, edit, read, draw and write together. We worked on reinventing a graphic design workflow based on collaboration and exchange. 9 projects were developed with the support of a team of advisors that provided conceptual and technical advice.

Femke Snelting is an artist and designer, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software. She is member of Constant, a Brussels based association for Art and Media. Femke co-initiated the design- and research team Open Source Publishing (OSP) and is currently coordinating the Libre Graphics Research Unit, a network of four European medialabs that investigates the many interrelations between tools and practice. In this context, she collaborates with Medialab Prado (Madrid) on the 2013 edition of Interactivos?: Tools for a Read-Write World.

www.medialab-prado.es/interactivos    www.constantvzw.org    www.lgru.net    @medialabprado

A practice community on the beach

#Hondartzan are encounters on the beaches of ColaBoraBora. Periodical meetings in which the aboriginals, residents of nearby islands, accidental tourists, explorers or the shipwrecked from a drifting system are slowly arriving to respond to the call of the commons, the free and the open. A facilitator space through which to collectively know-each-other-act-learn-investigate-co-create-prototype-reflect-work-celebrate; building ties and affections, gradually identifying and defining common interests, developing collective intelligence and launching initiatives through open and collaborative methodologies. An attempt to articulate ourselves into an emerging, heterogeneous, diffuse, inclusive and mutating community; in the process of finding the balance between the (in)formality, (un)disciplinarity and (de)structuring required to develop organically and remain alive.

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ColaBoraBora is an island in transition between the prevailing reality and projected desire in which we orient ourselves according to four cardinal points: pro-commons, open code, collaborative practices and social entrepreneurship. A perma-cultural and feminist i-cosystem through which to contribute to making new models possible for relationships, organisation, production and consumption around distributed and dynamic P2P networks. From ColaBoraBora we will be visited by Ricardo_AMASTE, apocalyptic and adapted de-artist, halfway between Eskorbuto and Spongebob Squarepants, an informal anarchist-communitarian, an incoherent militant of pro-commons and de-growth, seduced by the feminist ethic and permaculture, always in a process of drift.

www.colaborabora.org   @ColaBoraBora   @Ricardo_AMASTE

The collaborative economy and the rise of open communities

Collaborative Consumption, Peer Production, Crowdfunding are part of a same revolution: the collaborative economy. As OuiShare Connector in Barcelona, Albert will focus on the economic impact of the collaborative economy and share some insights on the human factor of building open communities.

Albert Cañigueral is the founding blogger of www.consumocolaborativo.com, which in its 2 years of life has become a standard in the Spanish-speaking world on the trend of collaborative consumption. As a OuiShare Connector in Barcelona, he supports and dynamises the local community and connects it globally. As well as being a speaker, professor and contributor on collaborative economy, he works to build bridges between the more traditional economy and the collaborative economy, helping businesses and administrations in their strategy of adapting to the collaborative revolution.

  www.ouishare.net     www.consumocolaborativo.com     @AlbertCanig

Fashion and code

Fashion means more than just clothes to cover our bodies. It’s a mean of communication and self-expression. This rises the question: In how far can we express our own, personal identity through items made in mass-production?

Where as we on one hand live in a consumer society filled with mass produced goods, we have on the other seen a quest for authenticity and an ever rising eco-awareness emerging over the past years. Fast fashion is met by new ideals of slow design, the creation of pieces made to last, that can live to become a vintage garment of the future.

Online culture has fired on a world of new possibilities. The distinction between user and maker, consumer and producer, is blurred by professional amateurs, and the internet becomes the platform to build share know-how, collaborate, and make business. Open source philosophy and tactics has spread from software creation into many parts of society and culture, so into design and fashion, where it invigorates user-generated fashion, design based on principles of sharing and creative collaboration.

This talk covers a scope of new ways of fashion design and manufacture, from open design to D.I.Y and new tactics to create ecologically and socially sound design. Cecilia Palmer will present her work in the field of open design and upcycling, and introduce some of the most intriguing actors, projects and movements that are finding collaborative, open-source and participatory ways to reform the fashion industry.

How can you beat boredom with engaged style instead of mere consumption? How can production go local again? How can we curb our ecological footprints the most style- and streetwise? And maybe most importantly: why is D.I.Y and open design so valuable for the existence of professional fashion designers and craftsmen?

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Cecilia Palmer is based in Berlin and works as designer and programmer between fashion, web, sustainability and open source. She is the founder of green, open-source fashion label Pamoyo and swap & remake event Fashion Reloaded, both initiatives aiming to bring upcycling and open source tactics to a new level among consumers and producers alike. In her work she constantly strives for collaboration across artistic borders. When not conspiring new ways of bringing abundant clothes back into the loop, she explores the magic of the internet as programmer, and currently works as web developer at newthinking communications. She was born in Sweden, and lived and worked in France, Holland, and since 2005 in Berlin.

www.pamoyo.com  /  @Pamoyo