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The book “Diverted Derived Design” and Bouctje on display in the collective exhibition REHOGAR 8 at Museu del Disseny, Barcelona from 10th Nov. to 4th Dec. 2016.

REHOGAR is a collective exhibition and annual gathering about open design and reuse/upcycling as tools for social transformation.

Excerpt from the final presentation of the projects developed during Interactivos?'15: Culturas materiales en la era digital. Presentation of the book "Diverted Derived Design" and the process of its fabricaton.

A short video explaining all the projects developped during Objetos Comunes at Medialab Prado in 2015. At 4:40 in the video, Julien explains a little the motivation behind the project of the book on open source product design.

Workshop ‘Make your own copy’

The idea was to make 3 kinds of stools that raising the issue of copying.

First, the stool 60, a classical iconic designed by Alvar Aalto in 1933 and already distributed by Artek. Decades later, Ikea did a really close legal copy with their Frosta stool. Today, you can find a huge list of websites that offers recipes to hack the Frosta stool into stool 60.

Second one is a an archetype stool. This object has no original creator, passed down from one generation to the next, like the concept of a knife. You can also find DIY ideas on the web. 

Making a tripod folding stool with Ruben.

Modification from stool presented: height increased by 10 cm 

Making an Honest stool with Martin

Making a stool 60 hack with Alena.

Workshop Libre Objet - Make your own copy

Guía abierta a objetos abiertos

Libre Objet in Madrid, at Medialab Prado about a book that will be an Open guide into open objects.

Libre Objet is in Madrid, at Medialab Prado writing a book that will be an Open guide into open objects.

We are half way through the process right now of collectively writing it with the participants of Interactivos?’15 in the broader scope of “Objetos Comunes”.

The book will have its first publication on the 18th of December 2015, but you can already dig in the process by following this repository.

Some photos of the mood from this first week.

Results of Bouctje’s forking 

1- foldable bookstand

2- bookstand converted to jewelery stand

3- ligthweight research