Distributed Design

🔮 Welcome to the future of the Distributed Design Platform! After much planning, programming, and creative conversations, we are excited to share our new Platform Ecosystem! A transformative step beyond just a website. Built to amplify connections, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration, this virtual space reflects the evolution of our vibrant community since 2017. ✨ What’s New? ⚪ Impact Page: Visualize the social and environmental impact of Distributed Design. ⚪ Learning Hub: Dive into 100+ curated resources powered by ethical AI to elevate your creative practice. ⚪ Members Page: Discover our diverse network of partner organizations and connect locally. ⚪ Services Page: Explore how we co-create value and foster economic regeneration globally. 🚀 Enhanced Features A redesigned home page, an interactive map to visualize our global community, and smarter filtering tools to find Creatives and opportunities faster. 🌍 Explore a space designed to connect, empower, and regenerate 🖇️ Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dfrYCTwj • • • #DistributedDesign #PlatformEcosystem #OpenDesign #CreativeCollaboration

✨ Empowering local manufacturing: explore the Make Works Best Practice Guides! 💡Are you passionate about regenerating local economies, preserving cultural heritage, and fostering sustainability through distributed design practices? The Make Works Best Practice Guides are here to support you! 🔧 Whether you’re a: 1️⃣ Designer, artist, or maker 🎨 2️⃣ Industry partner or micro-manufacturer 🏭 3️⃣ Policy maker shaping the future 📜 These Guides are packed with knowledge and insights to fuel your creative journey, empower local production, and make your ideas a reality. 🌟 Make Works’ mission is to make local manufacturing openly accessible, connecting makers and manufacturers to skilled partners, tools, and materials in their area. 👉 Learn how to get involved here: https://lnkd.in/dT-d3Jg7 • • • #MakeWorks #localmanufacturing #sustainability #creativepractice #distributeddesign

🌿 Discover how Studio circOlar is embracing circularity through design! ✨ Studio circOlar is a material-driven design practice connecting architecture, design, and art to inspire a world that embraces circularity and cherishes shared material resources. ♻️ They envision a regenerative cycle where discarded paper is reborn as functional and aesthetically pleasing products. From start to finish, every decision reflects their commitment to sustainable practices and the circular economy. 📖 The sharing of knowledge – whether embodied, textual or technological – is essential in making a circular world, relying not only on a singular studio but the collective voice of the public. They aim to build an accessible framework for the public to co-create the material circularity. 🌍 Circular design isn’t just about reducing waste; it’s about redefining value. 👉 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dxyUhTs9 • • • #circulardesign #sustainableinnovation #circulareconomy #materialsrecycling #designforthefuture #studiocircolar

🌟 Are you curious about the intersection of traditional crafts and cutting-edge technology? 📅 Join us this December in Spain at the CRAFTINNOVA conference, where DAFNE+ Ambassador Jorge Muñoz Zanón — a Master in Design for Emergent Futures student at Fab Lab Barcelona | Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia — will host an exciting workshop! 💻 Jorge’s workshop will explore how emerging technologies like digital fabrication, blockchain, and decentralized organizations (DAOs) are transforming the crafts sector, empowering creators, and opening up new possibilities for sustainable and innovative practices. 📍 Valladolid, Spain 🗓️ 15th December 2024 👉 More information here: https://lnkd.in/dgJZU7bu · · · #DistributedDesign #DAO #CreativeCommunity #digitalcrafting #craftinnova

🚀 Explore the latest insights: Distributed Design Platform’s impact report is here! Curious about how our values are evolving? How many people joined Distributed Design events? Where we’re headed next? The Distributed Design Impact Report gives a snapshot of all that—from our Creative Talents and members to our global connections and beyond! 🌎 Dive in to discover our impact across social and environmental dimensions within the cultural and creative industries. Get a closer look at our outreach, diversity, growth, and key learnings at both global and local levels. ✨ Read the full report: https://lnkd.in/d7Xvx7UK · · · #DistributedDesign #ImpactReport #CreativeCommunity #DesignForChange #GlobalCreativeNetwork Fab Lab Barcelona Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

🛎 2 days left to submit your abstract for the 2025 Distributed Design publication! 🚀 Driving Design Volume III, the final edition in our series, centers on how our community is reimagining the design paradigm through the (re)distribution of making, knowledge, value, and power. 🌐 Each publication in this series aims to inspire, share collective visions, and demonstrate the many ways Distributed Design is practised locally and globally. ⏳ Submit until 17th November: https://lnkd.in/d-RFEE7X · · · #DistributedDesign #OpenCall #CreativeEurope #DesignInnovation #DrivingDesign #makermovement #fablabs Fab Lab Barcelona Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

🌟 Pays’Âges by Dorian Étienne, a Distributed Design Award winner from 2024 🎉 Pays’Âges reveals the identity of endangered territories from a unique perspective—viewed from above and translated into monumental, three-dimensional tapestries. This collective, local, and itinerant project brings the topography and biodiversity of each region to life through stunning tapestries made entirely from 100% local and natural materials. Each artwork serves as a powerful “state of place” captured during this era of ecological disruption. More than an artwork, Pays’Âges is a participatory experience where locals join Dorian to learn plant-dyeing and tufting, contributing directly to the tapestry’s creation. With his new Smart Citizen Kit, provided by Fab Lab Barcelona, Dorian will have access to environmental data that can enrich his approach to these impactful creations. Congratulations, Dorian—your work exemplifies how design and community can come together to illuminate and protect the world’s precious landscapes. 🌿💚✨ #DistributedDesignAwards2024 #DistributedDesign #SmartCitizenKit #FabLabBarcelona #CulturalHeritage #CommunityEngagement #DesignForChange 👉 https://lnkd.in/ddyUYDFp

📣 1 week left to submit to Driving Design Vol. III! 📖 As the final edition of the Distributed Design Platform series, this volume will explore how our community redefines design through (re)distribution of making, knowledge, and power, and set collaborative visions for the future. 💥 We welcome diverse voices and perspectives that highlight the richness of our global ecosystem. From articles and reviews to visual submissions—zines, AR, how-tos, or something entirely new—bring your unique contribution to life in this special edition. 📅 Submit your abstract by November 17: https://lnkd.in/d-RFEE7X · · · #DistributedDesign #OpenCall #CreativeEurope #DesignInnovation #DrivingDesign #makermovement #fablabs Fab Lab Barcelona Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

❗ 13 days left to submit an abstract for the 2025 Distributed Design publication 🚀 Driving Design Volume III, the final edition in our series, centers on how our community is reimagining the design paradigm through the (re)distribution of making, knowledge, value, and power. 👥 The call for abstracts is open to anyone exploring the field of Distributed Design: from makers and designers, citizens and communites, to researchers and policy makers. First time and seasoned contributors alike are welcome. 🎨 We're also now welcoming visual and graphic-based submissions, alongside text 📅 Submit your abstract by November 17, 2024, here: https://lnkd.in/d-RFEE7X · · · #DistributedDesign #OpenCall #CreativeEurope #DesignInnovation #DrivingDesign #makermovement #fablabs Fab Lab Barcelona Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

It was an honour to have our Manual Shredder being showcased during the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Special thanks to Distributed Design Fab Lab Barcelona VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa | ESELx @creative.eu #DistributedDesign #CreativeEurope #OpenDesign #vdw24