[p2p-research] open design update

[Michel Bauwens]

an update on the open design activities of our friend massimo

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From: Massimo Menichinelli <info at openp2pdesign.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: [p2p-research] Thingiverse spawns new Parts Nebula
To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>



The projects I'm working on are:

-I'm going to give a 4 days workshop about the Open P2P Design approach to
Open Design projects in Seoul, this October. It will be at IDAS, Hongik
University. http://www.idas.ac.kr/
I'm still organizing the event with the university there so I will announce
it in the next days. I'm very happy for this because it's an important
university and I will have the opportunity to put in practice the Open P2P
Design process in a nice context. And this is my first time in Asia (well,
actually it's the first time outside Europe!!!).

-I've just started brainstorming about more books from openp2pdesign.org,
therefore it will take a long long time to write, design and publish them.
Anyway, they should be:
-one about open source softwares and tools for design (the easiest one, but
strategic as it would be useful for who wants to try open design or just
design but with open tools);
-one about Open Design, with half of the book (Strategic) focused on the
strategic step towards the Open Design scenario and the other half (Meta)
with a guide to metadesign Open Design processes (metadesign = the design of
the design process);
-one about Open P2P Design and the relationships between design, complexity
and participation. It will be on an higher level than the Open Design book,
more difficult to write but for me very important;
-a sort of open source toolkit for doing service design projects (but I will
try to get some other people from Politecnico di Milano involved in it).

- since from the start I've been thinking about openp2pdesign.org not as a
simple blog but just the starting point for a network, a community or a
design firm...maybe this year I will let more people in it, I'm already
talking with them and I hope they will accept (and this means maybe more
books).

- someday soon I will have enough time to start the organization for the
 Open Everything event in Milan or somewhere else in Italy.


By the way, I've just published a blog post with your mindmap:
http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog/archives/1075

For mind mapping, I'd like to suggest you Xmind (http://www.xmind.net/), an
open source, Java and Eclipse-based multiplatform desktop application for
mind mapping. XMind has an online sharing service, not as good as the
Mindmeister one but it provides anyway a way to enable both team
brainstorming and personal mind mapping. It features a Web 2.0 community for
the sharing and embedding of the maps. With Xmind is possible to create
mindmap or less hyerarchical maps, with images, markers and
relationships/connections (with a weight, a direction and tag). It's the
software we used at I Realize 09 for map drawing.
You can export the map from Mindmeister in the Freemind format (also open
source, but older and not as good) and then import it in Xmind.


See you soon,

Massimo
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