"Go into the kitchen and open the first drawer you come to and the odds
are you'll find the wooden spoon that is used to stir soups and sauces.
If this spoon is of a certain age you will see it no longer has its
original shape. It has changed …
Bauhaus meets F/LOSS
Taking it's inspiration from the Bauhaus Vorkurs ((Itten, Johannes. Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold)), Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg wrote Digital Foundations ((http://www.blog.digital-foundations.net)), a textbook for teaching software to designers and artists. Their idea was to not …Use Cases and Affordances
Enjoying the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine First Flight too? In the mean time, the editorial team started working on a brand new one! The theme for the upcoming magazine is Use Cases and Affordances:
Our software tools, in their affordances and potential use cases, define for us, to …
Open Sauces
Just out: The fOam Open Sauces book + insert!
The book contains essays, recipes and images documenting Open Sauces:
"a sequence of experimental courses, matched with drinks, improvised music and esteemed guests. While savouring the foods, the guests will be engaged in table conversations, sharing experiences, recipes and ingredients needed to …
Standards and their Stories
I'm looking forward to the stories that may be unfolding these days here at SVG Open.
[openbook booknumber="/b/OL16960548M"] Here are some quotes from chapter 1 of "Standards and their Stories", edited by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star. Among other things, this introductory chapter makes a point for …
The Library
On our (virtual) bookshelves:
Download the list as .csv file: OSP-library_030810
The OSP-library is a modest pile of books that we think is relevant to our practice. Some we have read and others we should. We'll keep adding titles; suggestions welcome!
After testing several ways to catalogue the collection, we …
In the mail
In the mail today:
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From Taipei (Taiwan): Freesouls. Captured and released. Joi Ito, 2008
From Weimar (Germany): Lorem Ipsum: Zentralorgan der Freien Klassen Kommunikation. 2010Thank you Christopher + Martin :-)
Collaborative Futures
"Collaboration can be so strong it forces hard boundaries. The boundaries can intentionally or unintentionally exclude the possibility to extend the collaboration. Potentially conflict can also occur at these borders"
For this years' Transmediale Festival, the F/LOSS Manuals project took up the challenge to write, edit and publish a …
A postcard from Amsterdam
Alessandro Ludivico proudly presents the latest issue of Neural with OSP-designed ad for By Data We MeanAt a conference in Amsterdam, the Ippolita collective proposes us to build (and use?) convivial tools, a method for users that 'neither want to rule nor to be ruled by the Society of …
seamful
"Open Source doesn't mean free access, nor open space or open air; it presumes a seamful approach to design as a response to the increasing reliance on technology and its accessibility"