OPEN STRUCTURESThomas Lumée

Alev Sönmez

METU Department of Industrial Design

ID 501 Advanced Product Development in Industrial Design

Open source

Exchange of information

Awareness

Infrastructures

Modularity

Keywords

We are breeding

cultures of exchange.

“Since information no longer comes

with a price tag we’re opening up our

minds, sketchbooks, and hard drives,

sharing, rather than shielding, what we

find.”

Age of rediscovery

Browsing the past for a better future

Fertilizing ancient principles with modern know-how

Breeding hybrid solutions for contemporary chellanges

Not to accumulate knowledge but rather to distill wisdom

New versions of democracy

Enery and water infrastructures

Transportation infrastructures

Financial infrustructures

“In a society where consciousness is gaining market value and

reputation is becoming the ultimate status symbol, we are

redefining wealth.”

Designer Cultivators of style

Sculptors

Designer Cultivators of style

Sculptors

Esthetical skills with profound

contextual understanding and opportunities

to materialize this awareness through

creation.

Hackers

Entrepreneurs

Search enginees

Choreographers

Customers

Embedding their opinions,

concerns and identities to final

product

Designers

Design

Project

Prototype

Critique Proposal

Imagining its futureJudging the existing

Always updating

Ultimate

Design Project

Circular SocietyA society that considers its human

and natural capital to be the primary

assets for a sustainable economy

ApplicationsShift from massive production line to networks of small

independent product life cyles.

Digital, physical , logisticalframeworks

Digital Frameworks

Open source

Exchange of knowledge

Physcical computing

Free codes

Invite user to participate ot

develop source code

DIY projects

Physical Frameworks

Refining material Use

Infinite reconstruction cycles(close resource and components loops)

Logistical Frameworks

Modularity

“if we want to improve the concept of modularity, if we want to facilitate

compatibility and enhance flexibility, we need to open up and synchronize

current dimensional frameworks”

Modular structures

Flexibile ,scalable ,diverse open structures easiliy adopting the

environment

Standardization is needed.

“If we want to co-create our environment,we need to build with the same bricks.”

Ion SørvinIon Sørvin (DK) is co-founder of the art collective N55.

The Power of Logic

VERSUS THE Logic of

POWER

Ion Sørvin

Logic

Power

Ownership of Land

Logical Relations

Keywords

Ion Sørvin

•co-founder of the art collective N55. •Danish artist, activist

“I think what’s important is to

open people’s eyes to other

ways of doing things and other

ways of living."

“We find ourselves in a situation where large concentrations of

power determines the layout of our urban environments in most

places in the world. “

“Most architects, urban planners, designers, artists etc are more than

willing to work for these concentrations of power despite the fact that these

concentrations of power do not necessarily respect the rights of persons.”

“we are social beings needing space for being different.“

“N55 propose a critical approach to city design by daring to give the

inhabitants real and meaningful influence on the form and function of their

city, and by using friendly technologies, which allows our urban

environment to exist in symbiosis with our planet rather than as a

parasite.”

“A potential revolutionary change of our urban environments lies

simply distrubuting power.”

“we are social beings needing space for being different.“

“N55 propose a critical approach to city design by daring to give the

inhabitants real and meaningful influence on the form and function of their

city, and by using friendly technologies, which allows our urban

environment to exist in symbiosis with our planet rather than as a

parasite.”

“A potential revolutionary change of our urban environments lies

simply distrubuting power.”

Logic

necessary relations between different factors, and factors are what exist by the

force of those relations.

Logical relations have decisive significance. They are conditions of rational

talks

“If we are conscious of logical relations, it is possible for us to decide

whether something is right or wrong and not to allow ourselves to be

ruled by for example habitual conceptions and subjective opinions”

Ownership of Land

If we claim the ownership of land, we also say that we have more right to parts

of the surface of the earth, than other persons have.

If one does not accept that persons have the right to stay on the surface of the

earth, it makes no sense to talk about rights at all.

No persons have more right to land than other persons, but concentrations of

power use force to maintain the illusion of ownership of land.