This document discusses open design and citizen science. It explores how open design, which allows for public contribution and modification of design projects, can form an alliance with citizen science, where members of the public engage in scientific research. Open design has the potential to increase participation in data collection and experimentation for citizen science projects by enabling anyone to improve sensor designs or build tools for scientific investigation through open collaboration and peer review. Forming connections between open design and citizen science communities could lead to new approaches in collaborative research that harness public interest and creativity.

1. Open design / citizen science
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2. Product Designer
Wheel pointer, anonymous

3. What is design products?
Ethnography

4. What is design products?
Product Language

5. “What is good design?”
Primary school teacher, 2012

6. Primary school pupil, 9 years old, 2012

7. “Design is a negotiation”
Enzo Mari, Autoprogettazione, 1974

8. Open Input / Closed Input / Closed Input / Open Input /
How open... is open design? Closed Output Open Output Closed Output Open Output
Images, www.smallfindsdesign.co.uk
Flint Knapping

9. “Now we are all designers
we better get good at it”
Chris Anderson, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, 2012

10. all have access to
“Now we are all designers
we better get good at it”
Chris Anderson, Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, 2012

11. Digital Manufacture / Open Manufacture
Rapid Prototyped dress, Iris VanHerpen
Rapid Prototyped furniture, Front
Arduino, earth quake detection
DIY Drones

12. Open construction... limit?
Libyan rebels construct weapons
Images, Reuters
Wiki-weapons, Images

13. Trust... a world without standards?
Neonurture Incubators
Images: designthatmatters.org & jambo57 (Flickr)

14. The Public Laboratory
Balloon mapping kit
Images, publiclaboratory.org

15. Artefact Café
Made in Brunel 2012
Oxo Tower, Bargehouse
www.artefactcafe.wordpress.com

16. Artefact Café
Made in Brunel 2012
Oxo Tower, Bargehouse
www.artefactcafe.wordpress.com

17. “Think of them as matter
compilers, not 3D printers”
Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, 1995

18. It’s all about the context...
Fire Welding & Folding Damascus Steel
Images, Cedarlore Forge (Flickr)

19. “A world full of crapjects
and blobjects”
Bruce Sterling, Shaping Things, 2005

20. PhD_land
How can open design form an
alliance with citizen science?

21. Want to talk about?
#opendesign
#making
#citizenscience
#bees
#howopen
#iot
#sciencehackdays
#usercentreddesign
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