My new design workshop, that was developed especially for FabLabs and makers is beginning in Berlin's betahaus (that also hosts Open Design City). As a warmup I will give a presentation that introduces trends and traits of the revolution in design and manufactoring, with some of my Open Design work, in context, essentials and insights about Industrial Design, consumption and creativity, on May 11th, and the two day workshop that follows will be in 9-10 of June.  Details at http://betahaus.de/events/kategorie/diy-2/

As part of the exhibition The form of Co-Creation: reality in the“Creative Commons Era” at the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery, 3 chairs were downloaded and produced in Japan.

From exhibition text: “Design” means an interface that synthesizes innovative network and production system. In this scheme, artists and designers play very important roles as professionals who critically verify the potentials or vision of our environment, or as incubators who raise thecreativity of co-creation through introducing their efforts to users. They stand at the frontier of the new world of creation."

Exhibition site:http://www.kcua.ac.jp/gallery/exihibition/1830.html
Until Nov. 13th 2011.

From Open Innovation (OI) to Innovation Ecology (IE): Open innovation describes an innovation paradigm shift from close to open innovation. In the last years, a great amount of practices associated with this new paradigm have drawn public attention and have been discussed in companies and various OI conferences as well.

For x treat #3, Open Innovation Design, we would like to re:think the existing paradigm and focus on new aspects and developments. Organizations following the OI paradigm (implicitly or explicitly) exchange knowledge with partners in their value-creation network. Taking this as a starting point, we are interested in how organizations design their OI activities to establish a sustainable Innovation Ecology with their relevant partners (suppliers, customer, employees, competitors, governments, etc.) in a context of coopetition.

Again we invited some distinguished guests and will use their multiplicity of expertise in order to address the following questions:

• Inside-Out perspective: How can organizations design their OI activities to benefit from it, i.e. to enhance their own innovation performance?
• Outside-In perspective: How can organizations design their own OI activities in order to be an interesting partner within emerging Innovation Ecologies? How do sustainable Innovation Ecologies emerge and develop? Can they be designed? How & who can influence the characteristics of an Innovation Ecology?
• User-centric perspective: How can service providers support organizations to establish an Innovation Ecology in a beneficial manner? How does Design (Thinking) provide additional resources to get more in inside in the shaping of this processes?
• Theoretical perspective: How to describe an Innovation Ecology from a conceptual point of view? Is there added value if we use system-theoretical aspects in analyzing Innovation Ecologies? What can we learn by combining practical and theoretical insights?

A short video of me talking about Open Design on ARTE Creative. "From Sketch" series by Zentrale Intelligenz Agentur.
http://creative.arte.tv/en/space/From_Sketch/message/3294/_From_Sketch__Ronen_Kadushin___EN_/

snapshot UdK 2011, DMY International Design Festival

Mythos Original – about Copies, Duplicates and Reproductions
for some its a compliment, for others a crime – at the same time current and controversial: when is it an inspiration, reference, homage, when is it a rip-off?
At the opening on the 2 June at 7pm a differentiated view on this topic will be debated in a Design Salon with the design theorist Michael Erlhoff among others. 

Opening & Design Salon with the design theorist Michael Erlhoff
Thursday, 02. June 2011, 7pm
Exhibition during DMY, International Design Festival Berlin
01. – 05. June 2011, daily 10am – 6pm
http://www.designtransfer.udk-berlin.de/index.php?n=Veranstaltungen.Snapshot11

As part of the Design Month Graz, a specially built Open Design pop up store will be presenting a large collection of Open Design products from several designers for sale. I've designed a new table and produced new versions of furniture for this event. Other pieces of my collection will be locally produced. The designs will always be on my site for download.  

Eröffnung: 7. Mai 2011 | 13.00 Uhr
Jakoministraße 30, 8010 Graz
Shoperöffnung mit Ronen Kadushin.
Der erste Shop in Graz, in dem es ausschließlich Open Design Produkte zu kaufen gibt.

On Tue. the 29th of March I'll be presenting at Create Berlin. http://www.create-berlin.de/article_a-79-CREATE+INPUTbrOpen+Design+Products+in+a+networked+culture_de.html

A revolution in product development, production and distribution is imminent due to the Internet’s disruptive nature and the easy access to CNC machines. Open Design is a proposal to make this happen. Its aim is to shift Industrial Design to become relevant in a globally networked information society.
Ronen Kadushin talks about some of his Open Design work, its context, essentials and insights expressed through this new design method.
He will share his realizations about industrial design and its relations to the Internet revolution, creativity and consumerism - and about a new design movement that is emerging around various “ Open Culture” communities, platforms and individuals.

29. March 2011 (Tuesday!)
Münzsalon
Münzstrasse 23, 10119 Berlin Mitte
Doors Open: 19.00 h, Start: 19.30 h

RSVP here: http://tinyurl.com/create-input-march2011

CREATE INPUT is a lecture series about all things design, art, music, film, media or architecture within Berlin's creative scene.
Everyone welcome!

The fourth Creative Industries Convention is devoted to the topic of open design. Ronen Kadushin, a pioneer in this field, refer this matter as a keynote speaker about his experiences and his ideas.

Time: 10. Februar 2011 | 19.30 Uhr
Place: Helmut-List-Halle, Graz
http://www.cis.at/en/CISKeyProjects/cis-projects?set_language=en

Recent Uploads- Open Design chairs, a solo exhibition at Appel Design Gallery.

You are kindly invited to the opening of my exhibition, with live production of the exhibition chairs.

Place: Appel Design Gallery, Tor Str. 114, 10119 Berlin
Time: Fr. 12 Nov. 19h-22h
The exhibition will run until Dec. 4th.

*UPDATE* watch the opening and live production video at http://vimeo.com/17419550

Max Kossatz, An Austrian internet market researcher of blogs, social media and discussion boards, whom I met last week in Vienna, actually had the guts to produce his own Hack chair, from my Open Design collection. Check out his blog post, with video!

Thanks Max!

Google translated:

How do I stay permanently innovative and creative?
"ReInvent YOURSELF"
Wednesday 30 June 2010, 19:00 clock
Event Center at the First Bank, Peter Platz 7, 1010 Vienna

Speaking @ (Un)limited Design forum, Amsterdam, with Paul Atkinson Claire Warnier, and Anna Nigten!

"exploring the socio-cultural aspects of open source, open design and the democratization of production and consumption".

The Aram Gallery
110 Drury Lane (near Aldwych)
Covent Garden
London
WC2B 5SG

Mon - Sat 10 - 6 (Thurs until 7)

t: +44 (0)7827 353 026
e: gallery@thearamgallery.org

How are Social Media changing Design?

I will be joining an Open Design workshop at Berlin Social Media Week conference:

Social Media Week conferences take place simultaneously in multiple cities around the world. The aim of each event is to advance the use and understanding of social media in the corporate, public and non-profit sectors.

The second annual conference will take place between February 1st – 5th, 2010 simultaneously in New York City, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Toronto and São Paulo. The five day conference will explore the profound impact that social media has on culture, business communications and society at large.

Thu, Feb 4 and 5 10:00am - 4:00pm, Betahaus Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20, 10969 Berlin

http://smw-berlin.sched.org/event/26af65f5d9bcdadd51dfd9c0f7b97b54

http://socialmediaweek.org/berlin/

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/smwberlin?v=wall&ref=nf

On August 13-16, 2009 the 20th anniversary edition of the four-yearly Dutch outdoor technology-conference will take place near Vierhouten, NL. Four days of technology, ideological debates and hands-on tinkering.

One of the events on the conference is the (un)limited design contest. It is a 3D design competition open to everybody. Designers are invited to make use of the computer controlled prototyping machines available in a Fablab to realise their ideas. There are 3 categories in the contest: Form, Food & Fashion. In each category a well-known Dutch designer will contribute one design for other competitors to build on.

I will be presenting my work and ideas in the context of this contest along with Neil Gershenfeld (Fablab) and Adrian Bowyer (Reprap), and hold an Open Design workshop or two later on.

Prototypes and Experiments 03, July 2009

One of my Open Design products will be on display at the third round of the "Prototypes and Experiments" group exhibition at the Aram Gallery in London beginning in late July.

From the Aram Gallery website: "Prototypes and experiments are critical elements in the development process of any new design. The prototype is the manifestation of the design idea on its way to production; experiments are more like steps on the way. The prototype, being part of a process, makes more real an idea that will lead to a final piece, and is not made with the intention of being sold or shown outside the designer’s studio. Experiments are also unique artefacts but are even less refined and sometimes constitute a partial sketch on the way to the prototype."

The DMY International Design Festival in Berlin will take place between 3-7 June and I'm pleased to take part in a few of its events:

DMY Design Symposium- June 6 2009, 11:00-20:00, Lecture and panel disscussion about sustainability, alternative design strategies, contemporary design and the future role of designers.

http://dmy-berlin.com/festival/2009/symposium/

Designtransfer- Snapshot UdK 09-„My, You & I“ - Vernetzt, verbunden, verknotet... June 4, 18:00

Student exhibition, presentation and panel disscussion about design and Open Source and fabing, Local niches and global Micro Brands, proffessionals and amatures.

http://www.designtransfer.udk-berlin.de/index.php?n=Veranstaltungen.Snapshot09

Appel Design Gallery- Group exhibition curated by Tina Roeder, next to the main design exhibition: In loving memory - the Lamborghini Countach by Martin Meier- Vernissage,  4 Juni  17:00 -23:00 

http://appeldesign.dyndns.org/

Create, make and trade your product ideas

Ponoko is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand.

The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites."

For more than a year now, The São Paulo based designers,Maria Helena Cabral and Oswaldo Mellone, started producing, and selling my open designs locally through Esencial design gallery. The royalties are contributed to an education center for street children.