[p2p-research] Openwear: Co-design, crowdsurcing, open source and p2p.

[Michel Bauwens]

By the way Bertram, we never announced/described your initiative on our p2p
blog, so if you could expand on this here, we could publish it on our blog,

Michel

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Bertram Maria Niessen <
bertram.niessen at unimi.it> wrote:

> Dear members of the list,
> Openwear  ( http://openwear.org/blog/ , http://www.edufashion.org/ ) is a
> collaborative platform for the co-design of open source clothing collections
> which focuses on the constitution of a common pool of freely sharable and
> customizable clothing projects, in the general framework of collective
> empowerment and lifelong learning of craftsmen, small designers and
> micro-entrepreneurs in Europe.
> After one year of work by 5 partners in 4 countries (Italy, Slovenia,
> Denmark and UK), the launch of the on-line community, of the first
> collaborative collection and of the first research e-book will occur in a
> few months.
> Moving towards the second phase of the project, we have realized that it's
> a pity to not follow the feedbacks and developments of co-design processes
> related to the collaborative collections (8 designers from all over europe
> have met in Ljubljana in June for the first collection; they are already
> working on the customization of some pieces).
> We don't have the resources at the moment to work also on this path, but
> I've thought it could be very interesting as a case history for researchers
> that are already working on the topics of co-design and crowdsourcing. If
> you know someone who could be interested, please write me at this address (
> bertram.niessen at unimi.it).
> Bests
> Bertram
>
>
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