. This past week I was very excited to visit Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Innovation Lab for the first time, following an invitation from one of my great heroes in the open source-driven innovation space: Eric A. von Hippel. The kind invite followed the work I have had the privilege of doing in Dansk Design Center in […] Read More…
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Tagged business models, design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, open source
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. Over the past year I have had the pleasure of leading a team in Danish Design Centre in the exploration of what new business models drive the emergent wave of open source hardware. The effort – REMODEL – has taken 10 Danish manufacturing (hardware, in the broadest sense of the word) companies ranging from […] Read More…
A little debrief from this year’s #SXSW conference in Austin, Texas: I have a couple of quotes in this Bureaubiz article, and our Danish Design Centre video crew did this video about the panel I spoke in (about open source innovation). Lastly, a couple of photos from the jam-packed post-event in Copenhagen we held […] Read More…
I got the honor and privilege to contribute an article to this year’s ThingsCon Report: The State of Responsible IoT. The result is an article titled Designing The Future We Want in which I reflect over how we need to take a proactive approach towards disruption; to make new technology – and thereby IoT – […] Read More…
. . In Danish Design Centre we have kicked off the first initiatives of REMODEL; our program for the exploration of open source business models for manufacturing. As part of that work I have written three articles which zooms in on the topic, helps set the stage and describes the first test-run which we have initiated […] Read More…
. . With Danish Design Centre we’ll once again fly to Austin Texas to attend SXSW Interactive in March 2017. This time we’ll not only co-organize a series of side events, but also speak in the official program. Concretely we are curating a panel event under the title ‘Share or Die: Is the future of […] Read More…
Last week in Danish Design Centre – in collaboration with Copenhagen’s new innercity makerspace UNDERBROEN – we kicked off “Debatter UNDERBROEN”, a new discussion event series taking on contemporary topics within production and technology. This is part of our FutureFab platform in which we explore what design, new manufacturing technology and maker culture will do to transform […] Read More…
. This past week, in collaboration with Rune Brink Hansen from Dark Matters and Majken Overgaard from Art & Innovation Hub, I launched a new project. It’s called PLADS; a platform for open source art and technology installations in urban space. As part of the launch we had engaged with 8 Copenhagen-based artists, who all came […] Read More…