Kat Braybrooke: The Open Design Definition and the Public Domain Remix – LGM 2013
Channel: Libre Graphics Meeting
Date: 10/08/2014

The Open Design Definition and the Public Domain Remix 
Kat Braybrooke
http://okfn.org

The past decade has seen an amazing amount of unexpected collaborations between artists working with open hardware, open design and public domain reinterpretation for intriguing results. In London, Milan and Paris, Helsinki, Amsterdam and Madrid, a group of designers and makers has started a collective called the Open Design Working Group with the Open Knowledge Foundation in order to explore these connections. 
Along with running the first-ever "Open Design, Hardware, Fabrication and Making" topic stream at OKFestival 2012 in Helsinki , the Open Design Working Group has just released v. 0.1 of the Open Design Definition - a Github-based attempt to discuss the intricacies of Open Design licensing and attribution to clarify design frameworks across paradigms as they relate to openness. 
To augment these discussions, the Open Design collective also launches the world's first Public Domain Remix (Domain Publique Remix) challenge in France this Spring with Wikimedia France - an annual initiative to leverage artistic innovation through creative multimedia reinterpretations of public domain works. As an example of such glitch remixes, Primavera will describe the methodology between the interactive kinetic sculpture "Mechalgorythm", which pays homage to Jean Tinguely's Metamatic works by producing generative works of its own art. 
This talk will be an invitation for discussion, contemplation and critical re-engagement with the concepts explored through such attempts to combine design methodologies across paradigms in an age of rapid technological change.