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looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or repurposed. They make a subset of an expanding global D.I.Y. movement, itself a huge tent of philosophies ...
IKEA's "fiffigafolket" contest URL = http://www.fiffigafolket.se/ "Asked amateur outsiders to send in clever designs for storing home media (hifi sets, TV, DVD etc) in the living room. Out of 5,000 ideas submitted, fourteen winners will be invited to IKEA
Catarina Mota I believe that the implications of bringing materials out of research centers are very similar to what has already happened with hardware: we’ll see materials-hacking, new applications and possibly even new materials come out of it. It’s all about critical mass. Material scientists have the know-how and the tools, and they ...
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Description
Context: " Sociologist Roger Hart wrote a book called Children's Participation: The Theory And Practice Of Involving Young Citizens In Community Development And Environmental Care for UNICEF in 1997. This groundbreaking work put the work of young people and adult allies around the world in the context of a global movement for participation, offering needed guidance and criticism of many efforts. The "Ladder of Children's Participation," also called the "Ladder of Youth Participation," is one...
Characteristics
Adapted to the community vs. institution situation. 1. 8) Community-initiated and directed 2. 7) Community-initiated, shared decisions with institution 3. 6) Institution-initiated, shared decisions with community 4. 5) Consulted and informed 5. 4) Assigned but informed 6. 3) Tokenism 7. 2) Decoration 8. 1) Manipulation
The Ladder of Participation in the Peer Economy
Proposed by Michel Bauwens: 1. Consumers : you make, they consume. The classic model. 2. Self-service: you make, they go get it themselves. This is where consumers start becoming prosumers, but the parameters of the cooperation are totally set by the producing corporation. It's really not much more than a strategy of externalization of costs. Think of ATM's and gas stations. We could call it simple externalization. 3. Do-it-yourself: you design, they make it themselves. One step further, pion...
Layers in user communities
Dave Cormier: "Core membership: These are the folks who are going to be at the website almost everyday. There membership in this community represents a key part of their life/practice and they are going to be very familiar with the interface, even if you’re using hieroglyphs for navigation. Most communities will have 2-20 of these… depending on size. This graph gives a real nice sense of how this looks. needs: 1. they need to know how this community will help them 2. they need recognition/ack...
A Ladder of Citizen Participation - Sherry R Arnstein, http://lithgow-schmidt.dk/sherry-arnstein/ladder-of-citizen-participation.html
The first group consists of "open" modular systems, where everyone is free to design and produce parts, while the second consists of "closed" modular systems, where all parts are designed and produced by one manufacturer. Closed modular systems produce uniform parts. For instance, all LEGO building blocks are made of plastic.
Many popular FOSS platforms, such as Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress, use modules in their development. Modularity is a standard form of programming that divides an application into the sum of many independent and linked components (Manovich, 2002). The concept is highly prevalent in FOSS projects.
Among these are the foundation-owned corporations common throughout northern Europe, such as Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company with $11 billion in revenue, as well as Ikea, Bertelsmann, and other large companies.
