futurecraft

wednesday’s class will be on open source and open design, with a talk by ubuntu’s own mako hill! so if you don’t know what open source is, look it up. please read these two texts on the potential of sharing ideas:

Episodes of Collective Invention (Peter B. Meyer, August 2003)

Fab (Neil Gershenfeld, 2005)

and remember to dissect a product and teach us something about it!

please bring your laptop to class if you have one. and please take a look at these short readings:

“On the Division of Labor” from: Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London:MEthuen and Co., Ltd., ed. Edwin Cannan, 1904. Fifth Edition. First Published 1776.

“Ornament and Crime” from: The Arts of Popular Culture in the Shadow of Adolf Loos, edited by Bernie Miller and Melony Ward, XYZ Books, 2002.