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Part 3: Needs-based design as an alternative paradigm  By Chris Giotitsas and Alex Pazaitis. Despite the serious conceptual and systemic problems described in the previous parts of this short [...]

Part 2: On the sharing economy By Chris Giotitsas and Alex Pazaitis. As a global society, we are facing what could be understood as an existential dilemma with the sharing economy. As a [...]

There is much hype around circular and collaborative economies over the past few years. From Davos to the European Union, everyone is eager to grab a piece of the new mode of industrial [...]

Last week, 12 students of the OD&M training visited the training nodes (Florence, Bilbao, London, Dabrowa Gornicza) exploring the local ecosystems of alliances between Universities, makers [...]

Florence, 24th April 2019 The OD&M project has participated to the 83rd Florence International Handycraft Fair with the exhibition of the prototypes realized by the students of the course [...]

Over the last weekend, Florence has kicked off the training Design Driven Strategies for Manufacture 4.0 and Social Innovation, joining the other European nodes of the OD&M Alliance. 30 [...]

On 17th November 2018 first Polish Hackathon under OD&M training took place in Łódź at “Sports Bay”.  The Hackathon focused on human-robot interactions.  Polish OD&M Students [...]

The uses of these organisms are being studied within the context of OD&M. A small team from Green Lab (London) will spend the next 6 weeks tutoring 12 MA Industrial Design students from [...]

Marco Tognetti, Director of LAMA, talks about the social and cultural transformations of the fourth industrial revolution, and what it actually means for  people and professionals who design [...]

On October 9, WSB University and Fab Lab Łódź have officially kicked off the ‘Open Design and Manufacturing through event based learning’ – the training proposal of the Polish [...]