More specific, André Rocha and Lucas Barreiro Lemos participated in the “Distributed Design Summit: Creative Minds for Productive Cities” which was held during the Techfestival in Copenhagen, from September 5th to 9th. This festival examined the impact of technology within 10 tracks: Ego, Food, Play, Learn, Create, Work, Start, Cities, Energy and Democracy. The festival included day-long workshops, dynamic activities by local and international co-creators, stage talks, conversations, installations, social meetings, music, after-hour drinks etc. Summits were organised as one-day gatherings where a diverse group of people could discuss the bigger picture, share insights, and challenge best practices.

Special emphasis was placed on the maker movement as a loose global movement of individuals who make physical projects with digital tools through collaborative processes and the sharing of the digital files or documentation.

The two prototypes that were presented by Andre and Lucas were an automated irrigation system and a solar dryer, respectively. The presentations were prepared in accordance with the overall program of the session. Based on the fact that most of the participants were makers and designers, the presentations focused more on the manufacturing process of the solutions rather than their use in agriculture. Also, some details on more practical issues and the efficiency of the solutions were provided together with info on the local Habibi.Works community.

These were the speakers of the Distributed Design Summit in Copenhagen:

More details about the Distributed Design Market Platform project can be found here.

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Our ultimate challenge is use realistic assumptions of human beings and human design to engender collaborations that support the rhythms of the human experience with all its notions of beauty, meaning and desire.

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Design Decode was established in 2015 with the aim of experimenting with and curating new possibilities in design culture through the publication of an interview series profiling exceptional people.

Our mission is to call forth designers and non-designers from all disciplines, to unite them in human-shaped methods of communicating and collaborating, and to collectively evolve, adapt, and integrate new insights across multiple layers of complexity.

The complex challenges of the design universe require us to advance our thinking and expose ourselves to solve real world problems with new approaches that didn’t previously exist.

We believe that the way to solving these problems is about the thing that links us all as human beings, reality, and design: insight.

What is necessary to connect new ideas and practices to sustain design in this time of accelerating challenge? What are its evolving responsibilities and ambitions? How can we keep up?

What are the internal and external challenges, the forces that oppose and the forces that work in its favour? What will define the agenda of designers? What must they do and how they will they do it?

We acquire and act upon the insight we acquire by examining the reality of the fluid systems in which designers operate as well as presenting a community, value-fuelled vison for the future of these fluid systems; we also explore the way designers live, their unique activities, and how they connect people, things, and questions in a way that unites all of us as real human beings.

We aim to design a collaborative system network to support innovators in their quests to build new systems that are aligned with the real, human-shaped core values that embody the fundamental qualities of the full potential of human nature.

We collaborate with different people and contexts around the world to stimulate the necessary transition from a design’s great potential to its greatest reality. The path that we take is the heart of real design itself: truth via insight.

Our ultimate challenge is use realistic assumptions of human beings and human design to engender collaborations that support the rhythms of the human experience with all its notions of beauty, meaning and desire.

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