The idea of "open design" was born around 2010, as 3D printers and digital fabrication tools became popular and various design files were uploaded and shared on the Internet.
It is a new democratized design culture in which designers are not the authority and monopolist as in the past, but rather everyone is encouraged to "share" their design ideas.
More than a decade later, data for 3D printers is now in daily shared.
And we have learned through practice that the "open design" approach is socially very effective in the production of assistive technology for the handicapped people, where conventional standarized design products could not reach, and in emergency manufacturing during disasters such as the Covid-19.
In this class, while learning about this history and backgrounds, students will learn through practice about a new trend called "open source urbanism" as a direction toward which "open design" will move in the next decade Specifically, students will create "inclusive benches" over the course of the fall semester, learning important concepts such as measurement and reproduction of existing benches, parametric design, the concept of inclusivity, and the arrangement and conversion of benches. Each week, you will be given a production assignment, so you will update your design proposal a total of five times. In the process, we will also have discussions with other students in the class about what is truly "inclusive" in the city.
This class is intended for students who are already able to create 3D data using 3D-CAD (fusion 360, Blender, Rhino, etc). Only those who have basic 3D skills in product design, architectural design, furniture design, etc. and have no problem communicating in English should take this class.
In addition, as a textbook for learning open design,
Open Design Now | Why design cannot remain exclusive" http://opendesignnow.org/index.html
was published in the Netherlands in 2011, and I supervised its Japanese edition. https://opendesignnow.jp/
I hope you will have read through the contents of this book before class.