The Softness of Things: Technology in Space and Form  

"We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.”
Paul Valéry, Pièces sur L’Art, 1931
Le Conquete de l’ubiquite

Week 6: The Oxford English Dictionary, Open Source and Free Software

Oxford English Dictionary:
70 years in the making, thousands of volunteers,
commons-based peer production
see also Reclaiming the Oxford English Dictionary for the Public
Open Source, Free Software and a new Economy (based on an old one):
“The Cathedral & the Bazar” by Eric S. Raymond and
“The Emerging Economic Paradigm of Open Source” by Bruce Perens

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Distributed Problem Solving & Learning to Share:
ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design

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Open Source Architecture, Usman Haque
Hardspace, Softspace and the possibilities of open source architecture, by Usman Haque
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From Open Source to DIY:
or how processes and paradigms of new practices infiltrate old ones
“Hackers and Haute Couture Heretics" by Otto von Busch
electroniccrafts by Mouna Andraos
Hacking Couture by Giana Gonzales

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Microlending
Kiva
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sharing
napster . limewire . flickr . wikis . youtube . wikipedia . blogs .
cultural artifacts / new distribution models / the birth of the author(s)

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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin (1936)
The Death of the Author, Roland Barthes (1967)