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ckohtala

Book!
Open Source Hardware Development – A handbook for collaborative product creation.
Mies, Bonvoisin, Villum et al.
2024
depositonce.tu-berlin.de/items
#OpenAccess #OpenHardware #maker #FabLab #OpenDesign

depositonce.tu-berlin.deOpen Source Hardware Development – A handbook for collaborative product creationOpen source hardware (OSH) involves freely sharing designs online, permitting their use through free/open licences and opening up the product development process to external collaboration. OSH development offers enormous potential for restructuring the social organisation of product creation and reforming traditional industrial practice. At first glance, it seems that these values and practices threaten conventional value-creation models. A company may ask how it can make money while working ‘in the open’; a solo entrepreneur may ask what they stand to gain from opening up their products. However, this mode of participation can harbour benefits to both companies and consumers. To this end, this handbook gives highly practical information on what OSH and OSH development is, how to get started, develop a strategic approach, document systematically, identify the right licence and collaborate with online communities and makerspaces. It taps into 21 case studies to draw rich insights into best practice and dos and don’ts of OSH development. The book addresses a practitioners’ audience of managers, engineers, business owners, makers and researchers who want to know more about the book’s subject which is at the forefront of societal needs and trends.
ckohtala

I presented this paper in the international fab lab meeting FAB24, in the Research Papers sessions in August in Puebla.
Would be happy to discuss with solarpunkodons.
'Solarpunk as a maker imaginary"
zenodo.org/records/13221345
#FAB24 #makers #solarpunk #climate #MakerCulture #OpenDesign

ZenodoSolarpunk as a maker imaginaryThe characteristics of ‘solarpunk’ as an eco-feminist future vision resonates with maker cultures that espouse autonomous development of products and technologies that use renewable energy sources, foster community resilience, accord with principles of environmental justice, and highlight symbiosis with nature and natural systems, even in urban contexts. In this study, we examined solarpunk in online discourse, project descriptions, Fab Academy project concepts, and academic publications, to see how it has travelled from its origins as a sci-fi literary genre to other creative fields, especially design, engineering and fab lab contexts. While there is no agreement on what constitutes solarpunk and what not, we see potential for the concept as a sociotechnical imaginary to motivate fablabbers into more environmentally oriented work in the face of environmental and social crises. Solarpunk may provide impetus in maker culture for alternative organizing and community governance models, to strengthen resistance to capitalist encroachment, precarity and collapse, in a way that is still pragmatic, anti-dystopian and materialist. The study also provides STS insights into how sociotechnical imaginaries may be shaped from below. 
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