Open collaborative design/See also

Wikipedia articles

• Open source
• Open design
• Commons-based peer production

Some others thinking along the same lines

• The MIT group behind Thinkcycle (open-source design for underserved communities and the environment) and Instructables which is a website to share step-by-step instructions for building stuff

• Adrian Bowyer - The RepRap project (An open-source rapid prototyping machine designed to be capable of self-replication)

• Terry Hancock - co-founder of Anansi Spaceworks that is attempting to use open source principles to develop space technology. His eloquent article Towards a free matter economy is well worth reading. Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

• Cameron Sinclair - Architecture for Humanity - humanitarian reconstruction

• Zac Apte - DesignBreak - Incubator and host for open design projects. Currently in early stages

...and there must be plenty more...

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