F. Questier, Sharing and downloading objects? The future of Open Design and Personal Fabrication, Guest lecture at Tianjin Aacdemy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China, 20/10/2010

1. Sharing & downloading objects?
The future of Open Design
and Personal Fabrication
Prof. dr. Frederik Questier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Guest lecture at Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, 16/10/2010

2. This presentation can be found at
http://questier.com
http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier

3. Belgium

5. Brussels

6. Atomium building © www.atomium.be - SABAM 2010; photo CC-by-nc-sa by fatboyke Luc B

8. Bruges

9. The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the elder 1568

12. Carnaval de Binche

13. Student folklore

15. Country of 1000 beers

18. My background

19. ➢ Teaching courses:
➢ Educational Technologies
➢ Learning Technologies
➢ Virtual Learning Environments
➢ E-learning design
➢ Departments
➢ Interdisciplinary Teacher Training
➢ Educational Sciences
➢ Former head of center for
➢ Education innovation
➢ Teacher staff training
➢ Virtual learning Environment

20. My research interests
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21. Research and Innovation Director
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22. “On the Internet,
nobody
knows
you're a dog”
Peter Steiner
New Yorker
2000
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23. In China:
“On the Internet,
everybody
knows
you're a dog”
This vision
might be closer
to 2010 Internet reality!
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24. Transparency versus Privacy
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25. "In the knowledge economy,
the best strategy is
to overinvest in connecting power.
Competitive advantage accrues to
those who invest more than their competitors
to connect to more people
and share knowledge faster and farther."
--Jim Botkin, Smart Business: How Knowledge Communities
Can Revolutionize Your Company
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26. On the Internet everybody
can contribute as
artist
teacher
publisher
journalist
broadcaster
programmer
photographer
industrial designer
...
Both professional and amateur...
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27. "The most fundamental way
of helping other people,
is to teach people
how to do things better
or how to better their lives.
For people
who use computers,
this means sharing
the recipes
you use on your computer,
in other words
the programs you run."
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28. Free Software
The freedom to
➢
➢ use
➢ study
➢ improve
➢ redistribute
the program
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29. The software Freedoms
require access to the source code
Source code: if encrypt(password) == encryptedpassword, then login=1, end
Compiled code: 001001011101010011001100001111011000110001110001101
→ “Open Source Software”
Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
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31. Creating wealth by sharing
"Seven open source business strategies for competitive advantage”
John Koenig, IT Manager's Journal, 2004
“Companies continue to
waste their development
dollars on software
functionality that is
otherwise free and
available through Open
Source. They persist in
buying third-party
proprietary platforms or
creating their own
proprietary development
platforms that deliver
marginal product
differentiation and limited
value to customers”
Picture reproduced with permission
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34. Creative Commons
Share what you want,
keep what you want
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35. www.creativecommons.org
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38. Frederik Questier at the MIT Miracle of Science Bar, 2009 38

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41. You will have to
compete with
the world!
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42. You will have to
compete with
amateurs!
An enthusiastic amateur beats
a bored professional
“Karl Marx was perhaps
the original prophet of the
Professional Amateurs
economy:
labour
– forced, unspontaneous
and waged work –
would be superseded
by self-activity”
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43. You will have to
compete with
free!
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44. What can professionals do?
Embrace or Die !
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45. Open
micro-
controllers
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46. Arduino based airplanes
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47. OpenMoko Neo 1973
Open Design
Open Hardware
Open Source Software
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48. “Rally Fighter” from Local Motors
Crowd-sourced Open Source design
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49. Open Fab Labs in > 45 cities
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54. RepRap
50% self-replicating
50% off the shelf
350€ = 3000RMB
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60. Producing Open Source Software
costs time
Producing Open Source Hardware
Challenge: how to get the money?
costs time and money 60

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62. How to make money with
Open Source Hardware or Design?
➢ OSH Business Models
➢ sell consultancy
➢ sell training
➢ sell custom designs
➢ sell distributions of designs (nicely packaged)
➢ sell the manufactured objects, while keeping ahead of competition
➢ sell software tools for design
➢ sell hardware tools
➢ dual licensing
➢ advertizements
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63. Similar revolutions?
➢ Personal computing
➢ Personal manufacturing
➢ Desktop computing
➢ Desktop manufacturing
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64. Far Future? Star Trek Replicators
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65. DARE
TO SHARE
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66. Copyright acknowledgements
➢ Belgium in EU Map CC-by-sa by NuclearVacuum
➢ Belgium map, Public Domain
➢ The Peasant Wedding by Pieter Bruegel the elder 1568
➢ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Asterix_in_Belgium.jpg
➢ Atomium building © www.atomium.be - SABAM 2010; photo CC-by-nc-sa by fatboyke Luc B
➢ Atomium building © www.atomium.be - SABAM 2010; photo CC-by-sa by Emilio Garcia
➢ Gilles de Binche CC-by-nc-nd by Fabrice Huin
➢ Saxophone CC-by-nc-nd by Bruno Bollaert
➢ Graspop Metal Meeting Festival 2008 CC-by-sa by Jtesla16
➢ Pralines, screenshot Neuhaus website
➢ Moules frites: CC-by-nc-sa by poluz – Nicola
➢ Belgian Beers: CC-by-nc-sa by Adam Lang
➢ Brussels Waffle CC-by-sa by David Monniaux
➢ Screenshot http://www.chamilo.org/
➢ Tax Shelter screenshot, http://minfin.fgov.be/portail2/belinvest/en/taxshelter/presentation.htm
➢ Figure study CC-by-nc-sa by Tony2 (NOT IN USE!)
➢ Embrace CC by Robbert van der Steeg
➢ Question! CC-by by Stefan Baudy
➢ Screenshot http://diydrones.com/
➢ Star Trek Replicator http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Coffee_replicates_then_mug.jpg Copyright Paramount Pictures and/or CBS Studios
➢ Share Candle Light CC-by-nc by Mr.Tea Stephen Train
➢ Social Network CC-by by Frederik Questier

67. Active/Manipulative - Collaborative - Complex - Constructive - Contextualized - Conversational - Intentional - Reflective
Questions? Comments?
谢谢
See also http://questier.com
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