Editing Open-design movement (section)

== Current directions ==
[[File:Open Source Ecology, Practical post scarcity.ogv|thumb|right|[[Open Source Ecology]], open source farming and industrial machinery]]
The open-design movement currently unites two trends. On one hand, people apply their skills and time on projects for the [[common good]], perhaps where funding or commercial interest is lacking, for [[developing country|developing countries]] or to help spread ecological or cheaper technologies. On the other hand, open design may provide a framework for developing advanced projects and technologies that might be beyond the resource of any single company or country and involve people who, without the [[copyleft]] mechanism, might not collaborate otherwise. There is now also a third trend, where these two methods come together to use high-tech open-source (e.g. 3D printing) but customized local solutions for [[sustainable development]].<ref>J. M Pearce, C. Morris Blair, K. J. Laciak, R. Andrews, A. Nosrat and I. Zelenika-Zovko, “3-D Printing of Open Source Appropriate Technologies for Self-Directed Sustainable Development”, Journal of Sustainable Development 3(4), pp. 17-29 (2010). [http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/6984]</ref> Open Design holds great potential in driving future innovation as recent research has proven that stakeholder users working together produce more innovative designs than designers consulting users through more traditional means.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Mitchell|first1=Val|last2=Ross|first2=Tracy|last3=Sims|first3=Ruth|last4=Parker|first4=Christopher J.|title=Empirical investigation of the impact of using co-design methods when generating proposals for sustainable travel solutions|journal=CoDesign|date=2015|volume=12|issue=4|pages=205–220|doi=10.1080/15710882.2015.1091894|url=https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/18877|doi-access=free}}</ref> The open-design movement may arguably organize production by prioritising socio-ecological well-being over corporate profits, over-production and excess consumption.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kostakis|first1=Vasilis|last2=Niaros|first2=Vasilis|last3=Giotitsas|first3=Chris|date=2023-06-30|title=Beyond global versus local: illuminating a cosmolocal framework for convivial technology development|url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-023-01378-1|journal=Sustainability Science|volume=18 |issue=5 |pages=2309–2322 |doi=10.1007/s11625-023-01378-1 |language=en|issn=1937-0709|doi-access=free}}</ref>