Massimo Menichinelli "Research On And Through Design With Open, Distributed And Collaborative Design Processes Within The Maker Movement" 08/11/2019 https://www.designsociety.org/939/Symposium+on+Design+Theory+and+Innovation

1. RESEARCH ON AND THROUGH DESIGN
WITH OPEN, DISTRIBUTED AND
COLLABORATIVE DESIGN PROCESSES
WITHIN THE MAKER MOVEMENT
RMIT University
Aalto University
massimo.menichinelli@rmit.edu.au
massimo.menichinelli@aalto.fi
Massimo
Menichinelli

2. 1. INTRODUCTION

3. BACKGROUND
● MSc in Industrial Design @ Politecnico di
Milano (99-06)
● Doctoral candidate in New Media @ Aalto Media
Lab - Aalto University (11 - 20 / expected)
● Research Fellow @ RMIT Europe / RMIT Universt
- Global Business Innovation ECP
● ~15 years practice + research + participation
in the Maker Movement

4. CONTEXT: THE MAKER MOVEMENT

5. OPEN, SOCIAL, DIGITAL INNOVATION
Menichinelli, Massimo, Alessandra Gerson Saltiel Schmidt, and Priscilla Ferronato. Forthcoming. “Mapping Strategies
for Distributed, Social and Collaborative Design Systems of Makers, Designers and Social Entrepreneurs.” In
ADIM2019 Academy for Design Innovation Management.
https://www.conftool.org/adim2019/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=104#paperID378.

6. H2020-MSCA-RISE: OpenInnoTrain
https://www.openinnotrain.eu/

7. 2. RESEARCH APPROACH

8. RESEARCH ON, FOR, THROUGH ...
Frayling, Christopher. 1993. “Research in Art and Design” 1 (1).
http://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/384/3/frayling_research_in_art_and_design_1993.pdf.

9. OPEN SCIENCE
The movement to make scientific research (publications,
data, physical samples, hardware, software) and its
dissemination accessible to all levels of an inquiring
society, amateur or professional. Open science is
transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and
developed through collaborative networks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science

10. https://www.rri-tools.eu/#
RESPONSIBLE RESEARCH & INNOVATION (RRI)
Scientific research and technological
development processes that take into account
effects and potential impacts on the
environment and society.

11. RRI + DESIGN
https://siscodeproject.eu/

12. META-DESIGN
● Behind (or designing design): “Design of Design
processes” / “Design of the generative principle of
forms” / “Design of the Design tools”.
● With (or designing together): “Design of media and
environments that allow users to act as designers” /
“Design of the organization of flows”.
● Between/among (or designing the "in- between"):
“Designing the spaces of participation” / “Design of
relational settings and affective bodies”.
Giaccardi, Elisa. 2003. “Principles of Metadesign: Processes and Levels of Co-Creation in the New Design Space.” Doctoral
Dissertation, Plymouth: University of Plymouth. https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/799.
Giaccardi, Elisa, and Gerhard Fischer. 2008. “Creativity and Evolution: A Metadesign Perspective.” Digital Creativity 19 (1):
19–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/14626260701847456.

13. 3. RESEARCH ON THE
MAKER MOVEMENT

14. GLOBAL COMMUNITY ON TWITTER
Menichinelli, M.: Mapping the structure of the global maker laboratories community through Twitter
connections. In: Levallois, C., Marchand, M., Mata, T., and Panisson, A. (eds.) Twitter for Research
Handbook 2015 – 2016. pp. 47–62. EMLYON Press, Lyon (2016).

15. GLOBAL COMMUNITY ON TWITTER
Menichinelli, M.: Mapping the structure of the global maker laboratories community through Twitter
connections. In: Levallois, C., Marchand, M., Mata, T., and Panisson, A. (eds.) Twitter for Research
Handbook 2015 – 2016. pp. 47–62. EMLYON Press, Lyon (2016).

16. GLOBAL COMMUNITY ON TWITTER
Menichinelli, M.: Mapping the structure of the global maker laboratories community through Twitter
connections. In: Levallois, C., Marchand, M., Mata, T., and Panisson, A. (eds.) Twitter for Research
Handbook 2015 – 2016. pp. 47–62. EMLYON Press, Lyon (2016).

17. GLOBAL COMMUNITY ON TWITTER
https://github.com/openp2pdesign/Twitter-Lists-SNA-EgoNetworks

18. GLOBAL COMMUNITY ON TWITTER
http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18209

19. MAKERS’ INQUIRY
http://makersinquiry.org/

20. LIMESURVEY
https://www.limesurvey.org/

21. MAKERS’ INQUIRY
http://makersinquiry.org/

22. MAKERS’ INQUIRY
http://makersinquiry.org/

23. MAKERS’ INQUIRY
http://makersinquiry.org/

24. JUPYTER
https://jupyter.org/

25. MAKERS’ INQUIRY
http://makersinquiry.org/

26. MAKERS’ INQUIRY
http://makersinquiry.org/

27. 4. RESEARCH ON / FOR
THE MAKER MOVEMENT

28. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN GITHUB
Menichinelli, M.: A data-driven approach for understanding Open Design. Mapping social interactions in
collaborative processes on GitHub. The Design Journal. 20, S3643–S3658 (2017).
https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352869.

29. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN GITHUB
https://github.com/openp2pdesign/platform_analysis

30. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN GITHUB
https://platform-analysis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

31. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN GITHUB
https://platform-analysis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

32. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN GITHUB
https://platform-analysis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

33. 5. RESEARCH THROUGH
THE MAKER MOVEMENT

34. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
RQ0. How can we support and integrate the research and practice
of meta-designers in analyzing, designing and sharing open and
collaborative design and making processes within open,
peer-to-peer and distributed systems?
1. RQ1. DESIGN. How can be collaborative design processes
designed, documented and shared with meta-design research
and practice on digital platforms?
2. RQ2. ANALYSIS. How can be collaborative design processes
understood, analyzed and shared with meta-design research
and practice on digital platforms?
3. RQ3. PRACTICE AND RESEARCH. How can we connect the research
and practice of meta-designers in open and collaborative
design and making processes?

35. RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN / PRACTICE-BASED
Practice/research: Not UX, not HCI but Research through
Design
--> Artifact is a mean for studying the practice, not
the practice or the research
For both professionals and non-professionals
--> Tools with codified knowledge (eg. BPMN) cannot be
accessed by all
An exploratory prototype, to define a strategy
--> Exploratory but intermediated: fully developed
ontology/platform later

36. OpenMetaDesign: FRAMEWORK

37. META-DESIGN + SERVICE DESIGN + ACTIVITY THEORY

38. OpenMetaDesign: ONTOLOGY
https://gist.github.com/openp2pdesign/bd64fe6771569e36ab97e5631f00beff

39. OpenMetaDesign: ONTOLOGY

40. OpenMetaDesign: PLATFORM

41. OpenMetaDesign: SOFTWARE
https://github.com/openp2pdesign/OpenMetaDesign

42. OpenMetaDesign: RESEARCH STUDY
Menichinelli, Massimo. 2019. “A Research through Design Framework from the Evaluation of a Meta-Design Platform for Open and
Collaborative Design and Making Processes.” Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering
Design 1 (1): 21–30. https://doi.org/10.1017/dsi.2019.5.

43. OpenMetaDesign: RESEARCH STUDY
https://github.com/openp2pdesign/OpenMetaDesignResearchStudy

44. RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN
Based on:
Bang, Anne Louise, Peter Krogh, Martin Ludvigsen, and Thomas Markussen. 2012. “The Role of Hypothesis in Constructive Design
Research.” In Proceedings of The Art of Research IV.
https://adk.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/the-role-of-hypothesis-in-constructive-design-research.
Frayling, Christopher. 1993. “Research in Art and Design” 1.
Redström, Johan. 2017. Making Design Theory. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

45. CONNECTING RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/making-design-theory

46. RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN

47. PROFILE OF META-DESIGNERS

48. PROFILE OF META-DESIGNERS

49. THANK YOU.
RMIT University
Aalto University
massimo.menichinelli@rmit.edu.au
massimo.menichinelli@aalto.fi
Massimo
Menichinelli