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Open source hardware and open design are closely related concepts that both aim to challenge conventional proprietary product creation, as evidenced by their shared roots in values like economic sustainability and local autonomy [1], [2], [3]. They are frequently discussed together in academic literature as competing or overlapping terms for new forms of decentralized product development [4], [5], [6], [7].
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Seven observations and research questions about Open Design ... cambridge.org 15 facts
claimOpen Source Hardware and Open Source Product Development (OSPD) may only gain a significant audience and ecosystem of participants if a 'Linux-like product'—defined as an essential infrastructure product that generates significant economic activity—emerges.
claimCurrent practices in Open Source Hardware, Open Source Product Development (OSPD), and Open Design are primarily focused on early-stage design processes, such as prototyping and technology development, and on distributed, low-tech manufacturing.
perspectiveOpen Design and Open Source Hardware aim to challenge the current growth-driven society and the modern division of roles between industries and customers.
claimOpen Design and Open Source Hardware are competing terms that can be partially explained by their different contexts of emergence.
claimOpen Design is a term created by scholars to comment on new forms of product development, whereas Open Source Hardware is a term that emerged from practice and was coined by hardware developers to indicate compliance with the ethos of the open source movement.
claimOpen Source Hardware data provides an empirical anchor for studying Open Source Product Development (OSPD) practices, offering an alternative to speculative or programmatic research contributions in the Open Design literature.
accountThe authors of 'Seven observations and research questions about Open Design and Open Source Hardware' developed seven observations based on six years of research on Open Design and Open Source Hardware, which they intend to serve as an agenda for further research.
claimOpen Design and Open Source Hardware are rooted in values of economic sustainability, local autonomy, and human-centricity.
claimThe term Open Design embraces practices that share some form of openness but diverge in fundamental aspects, such as Open Source Hardware and crowdsourcing.
perspectiveStandardization efforts for Open Source Hardware need to be extended to include the definition of process openness to achieve transparency in both dimensions of Open Design.
claimThe authors of 'Seven observations and research questions about Open Design and Open Source Hardware' recommend six actions for research and policy to support Open Design and Open Source Product Development (OSPD): (i) encourage business involvement and industry-led open industrialization, (ii) clarify definitions through large-scale comparative studies, (iii) experiment with extreme openness, (iv) generate practical guidance for OSPD processes, (v) push standardization for both product and process openness, and (vi) consolidate the understanding of OSPD and Open Design as a socio-technical phenomenon.
claimProduct characteristics, such as form, functionality, architecture, aesthetics, and complexity, are largely absent from debates regarding Open Design in literature and standards for Open Source Hardware.
perspectiveThe authors of 'Seven observations and research questions about Open Design and Open Source Hardware' suggest that design processes where requirement management and product architecting are decentralized among a swarm of participants need to be experimented with at a larger scale to understand their relevance.
claimOpen Design, Open Source Hardware, and OSPD are emerging phenomena attempting to gain maturity and move beyond marginality to offer alternatives to conventional proprietary product creation.
claimThe dimensions defined in contributions regarding Open Design and Open Source Hardware are currently vague, arbitrary, and lack validation from practice or academia.
Open-source hardware - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
referenceJérémy Bonvoisin, Robert Mies, and Jean-François Boujut published 'Seven observations and research questions about Open Design and Open Source Hardware' in the journal Design Science in 2021.
claimResearchers have questioned whether open design and open-source hardware design processes require new design practices or tools, and whether openness is the key factor in open-source hardware.