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Open Source Design Seminar

Team:
Victor Viña
Tomas Diez
Guest Jury:
KX Designers: Katia Glossmann, Xavier Tutó

From IKEA republic to personal fabrication
The processes of industrialization during the last two centuries changed the channels of production and consumption in the modern society. Two extremes have been created from distant relations between production and consumption: on one hand we have the large chains of mass production that have been extended over Asia, Latin America and East Europe (cheap labor), and in the other we have a consumer first world located chiefly in North America and Europe. IKEA, McDonalds, Ford, Toyota, …