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News from the Libre Objet Collective. Visit libreobjet.org, the objects database.

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Firsts releases of Peggy made by Fablab Brussels, Imal, Micro Factory, Defko Ak Niep, Falabeke and Medialab Prado. This project is supported by Constant vzw. For instruction, visit libreobjet.org 

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Talk between LibreObjet and Association Entropie about Peggy’s project and open source design @ recyclart - Brussels

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Presentation of Peggy’s project designed by Libre Objet for fablabs @Recylclart  Brussels. A collaboration with Constant VZW

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The book “Diverted Derived Design” and Bouctje on display in the collective exhibition REHOGAR 8 at Museu del Disseny, Barcelona from 10th Nov. to 4th Dec. 2016.

REHOGAR is a collective exhibition and annual gathering about open design and reuse/upcycling as tools for social transformation.

In this edition, REHOGAR wants to pay special attention to Communities: people, professionals, collectives or networks that activate transformation processes other environment, and make possible its reproduction and adaptability to different contexts. Transformations made possible through Reuse techniques and open design methods, a design that grows and evolves because it can be improved for and by other people.

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Excerpt from the final presentation of the projects developed during Interactivos?'15: Culturas materiales en la era digital. Presentation of the book "Diverted Derived Design" and the process of its fabricaton.

Book: http://books.libreobjet.org

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A short video explaining all the projects developped during Objetos Comunes at Medialab Prado in 2015. At 4:40 in the video, Julien explains a little the motivation behind the project of the book on open source product design.

http://books.libreobjet.org

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The printed version of our book on open source product design is about to be released. Stay tuned.

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Workshop ‘Make your own copy’

The idea was to make 3 kinds of stools that raising the issue of copying.

First, the stool 60, a classical iconic designed by Alvar Aalto in 1933 and already distributed by Artek. Decades later, Ikea did a really close legal copy with their Frosta stool. Today, you can find a huge list of websites that offers recipes to hack the Frosta stool into stool 60.

Second one is a an archetype stool. This object has no original creator, passed down from one generation to the next, like the concept of a knife. You can also find DIY ideas on the web. 

The third stool is designed by Cas Moor in 2014 and published under ‘copyleft’. There is no license attached but it is quite clearly mentioned about what you can do with it.

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Results of the day with Martin, Alena and Ruben. Thank you to all of them! 

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Making a tripod folding stool with Ruben.

Modification from stool presented: height increased by 10 cm 

Materials: wooden broom handle, leather, screws and eyelets

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Making an Honest stool with Martin

Materials : pine planks, glue, nails and wax

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Making a stool 60 hack with Alena.

Materials : pine plywood, laminated birch plywood, glue, nails and screws.

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Workshop Libre Objet - Make your own copy

This year, the Libre Objet* Workshop will focus on the question of copying in the context of product/object design field. Since it's a touchy topic for creators and the overall design industry, we will challenge this by making actual copies, explore the possibilities, rights and use limitations of iconic designs, archetypes and open-source objects. Through this practical experiment, we will discuss hacking, relaying and sharing and how copy can be a creative way to design. During the day, each participant could make his/her own copy with the available materials and tools.

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Guía abierta a objetos abiertos

Libre Objet in Madrid, at Medialab Prado about a book that will be an Open guide into open objects.

Some pictures about the paper release of this open guide, a new side table design named ‘Mesita’ and also a new fork of Bouctje ! 

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Guía abierta a objetos abiertos

Libre Objet is in Madrid, at Medialab Prado writing a book that will be an Open guide into open objects.

We are half way through the process right now of collectively writing it with the participants of Interactivos?’15 in the broader scope of “Objetos Comunes”.

The book will have its first publication on the 18th of December 2015, but you can already dig in the process by following this repository.

Some photos of the mood from this first week.

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Results of Bouctje’s forking 

1- foldable bookstand

2- bookstand converted to jewelery stand

3- ligthweight research

4- extracted shapes give new storage area

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Make time