Open design and innovation : facilitating creativity in everyone
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 237351122
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Gower
- ISBN
- 9781409448549
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Additional information
- In this monograph the author explores one of the fundamental concerns for design research: who designs and what right do they have to design for others? and articulates the move away from a model where designers acted as gatekeepers standing between the means of production and the general population. Cruickshank argues that consumers (and organisations) can design their own products and services such as websites, shoes or medical equipment without the involvement of a designer at all. A series of international case studies published for the first time in this book advance this argument. They include Gagateer, an open source hardwear/softwear system developed by Microsoft that enables anyone to create their own digital products (an MPS player, for instance, needs only 10 lines of code). Silver=Gold, was a co-design project in the Netherlands where retired people rejected the ‘gym equipment’ approach for an urban trim trail, instead developing a gently prompting path writing approach to encourage the use of the current environment (and slashing the cost of the project in the process). Building on these (and other) case studies and supported by interviews with some of the leading thinkers in open design and open innovation, this book lays out a new future for design where the professional designer can still have a positive contribution while recognising that the profession must change radically, and where designers need to develop the ability to learn the creative languages used naturally by other professions and people and engage with others on that basis. This book, published in 2014 by Gower Press, was translated into Mandarin in 2016. Peter Troxler, Professor in Revolution in Manufacturing, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, commented that this book was, ‘in many ways the most comprehensive, courageous and useful contribution to the discussion around open design’.
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