Free Architecture is focused on open-source architectures, its about the free circulation of ideas, its about cooperation projects available over the internet under Creative Commons licenses. Open-source architecture undermines the current political and economic model, becoming a “freedom struggle” against copyrights. Could you imagine a future where designers share the “copyright” of their work, projects and drawings, for the benefit of a collective, inclusive and “participative” form of design? No longer referring to the form of participation widespread during the Sixties and Seventies, and still present today, that saw the designers on one side and the clients on the other, but instead the formation of “equal” participation in which knowledge is shared in a two-way process. What kind of future could that be? «While, as a civil society, we make daily use of extensively common and openly-sourced facilities, such as roads and other public spaces. As individuals we draw clear limits to protect our privacy, our autonomy and what we perceive to be – or which society identifies – as individual freedom. Open-source architecture undermines the current political and economic model by taking a cue from what happened in the computer world over the last twenty years, soon becoming a “freedom struggle” against copyright which uses the web for sharing and implementing ideas and projects, and crowd-funding platforms to raise required funds». Boundaries, issue 7, Free Architecture Discover More: bookstore.boundaries.it/en/boundaries/18-free-2239033207.html
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:06:45 +0000