What is the Distributed Design Platform?
The Distributed Design Platform acts as an exchange and networking hub for the european maker movement. The initiative aims at developing and promoting the connection between designers, makers and the market.
Statistics
14 Countries
- Austria
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Slovenia
- Spain
19 Members
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Maker
Maker is a non-profit association working to foster and test the knowledge, technology, and practices of maker culture. It establishes partnerships and collaborates with peers in the maker community, and organizations from the industry, educational and civic society field on knowledge projects and activities that communicate, broaden and engage a broad target group of citizens in activities around technological trends and tendencies, and hands on making.
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Danish Design Center
As Denmark’s national design centre, it is the DDC’s mission to promote the use of design in business and industry, to help professionalise the design industry and to document, promote and brand Danish design in Denmark and abroad. In other words, the DDC aims to ensure the best possible meeting between the supply and demand sides in the design field. The DDC’s key approach in this encounter is systematic experimentation with design-based value creation in companies.
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Espacio Open
We are an ecosystem of creative and social projects for positive social impact, located in the Old Biscuit Factory of Bilbao (Artiach Factory) in the district of La Ribera de Deusto / Zorrotzaurre since 2009. With more than 110,000 annual visitors, 13 workers and 2,000m2 of facilities.
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Opendot
OpenDot was founded in 2014 by Dotdotdot, the multidisciplinary design studio established in Milan in 2004. OpenDot is a Fab Lab, a research and open innovation hub, a space dedicated to rapid prototyping, digital fabrication, and experimentation. It offers consulting services to companies, foundations, universities, private and public corporations and develops highly complex design paths and educational programs focusing on innovation
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Politecnico de Lisboa
IPL – Politécnico de Lisboa is a high-level institution of higher education whose aim is to create, convey and disseminate knowledge, culture, arts, science and technology of a professional nature by integrating study, lecturing, research and experimental development.
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Happylab Vienna
Since 2010, Happylab is Austria’s first Fab Lab. Learning from each other is an important point in the Happylab community. In addition to the physical meeting place provided for joint working and tinkering, a web-based forum and a wiki page also offer the opportunity to exchange experiences. The Happylab is an interdisciplinary entry point for all who have creative and/or technological project ideas. It is embedded within a framework of universities, business incubators, specialised SMEs, industries to provide the lab users with services when their idea grows beyond the scope of the lab.
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IAAC
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a center for research, education, production and outreach, with the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our society and building it in the present. IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC hosts Fab Lab Barcelona, the first and most advanced digital production laboratory in EU.
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Knowledge Center Vestmannaeyjar
Innovation Center Iceland encourages innovation and promotes the advancement of new ideas in Icelandic economy by providing active participation and support to entrepreneurs and businesses. Innovation is a prerequisite for diversity in the Icelandic economy and the basis of a strong competitive position of the economy. Innovation Center Iceland belongs to the Ministry of Industry and Innovation and operates according to the Act on Government Support for Technology, Research, Innovation and Industry (no. 75/2007).
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P2P Lab
The P2P Lab is a new generation of communities that help to build communities. It is dedicated to advocacy and research of peer to peer dynamics in society. Established ten years ago, it evolved into one of the main drivers of the‚ commons transition‘. The P2P Lab works for the development and maintenance of a global knowledge commons, encompassing a global community of researchers, makers, artists, designers and others, that advocates and monitors models of peer production, peer governance and peer property in every field of human activity.
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Pakhuis de Zwijger
Pakhuis de Zwijger is a platform for urban development and the creative industry, located in a redeveloped warehouse in the city centre of Amsterdam. What started out as a ‘clubhouse for creatives’ ten years ago has now grown into a platform that on a daily basis organizes cross-disciplinary discussions, workshops, festivals and more on urging temporary urban issues with relevant stakeholders.
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Re:publica
Re:publica is one of the largest and most exciting conferences about digital culture in the world where representatives of digital culture share their knowledge and decision-making tools, and discuss the future of the information society. Since its foundation in 2007, it has grown from a cozy blogger meeting with 700 participants into a wide-ranging “society conference”, with 8.000 visitors at the anniversary edition re:publica TEN.
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Polifactory
Polifactory is a multidisciplinary research infrastructure and the makerspace-fablab of Politecnico di Milano, which aims to explore and investigate the relation between design and new scenarios of manufacturing. Polifactory supports pre-incubation of young talents. Doctoral and graduating students are selected by Open Calls and hosted for three months in the makerspace as talents in residence working to materialize their own projects and collaborating (peer-to-peer) to other makerspace activities.
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Ars Longa
Ars Longa is a structure of production, diffusion, mediation of all forms of art at the intersection of art, research and society, both in public and private space. It favors innovative approaches and focuses on the educational or civic appropriation of projects. Together with their partner Fab City Grand Paris, Ars Longa is working on the Fab City Store to showcase distributed design.
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Fablab Budapest
FabLab’s Budapest is an individual Fab Lab in the downtown of Budapest, Hungary. In cooperation of the Asimov Foundation we host the first BioHack space in the country. Tiny but growing and open for everybody from kids to crazy scientists.
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Fab City Foundation
Established in 2018, the Fab City Foundation supports the global initiative through the development of projects and educational programs that are focused on building the capacity of cities and their communities. Based in e-Estonia, the Foundation is location independent and supports distributed programs as well as projects in both hemispheres.
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MAO
The national Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) is one of the oldest museum for architecture and design in Europe, established in 1972. The museum collects, stores, studies and presents material from these creative areas at temporary and permanent exhibitions.
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Global Innovation Gathering
A vibrant, diverse community of innovation hubs, makerspaces, hackerspaces and other grassroots innovation community spaces alongside individual innovators, makers, technologists and changemakers.
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Design & Crafts Council Ireland
The national agency for the commercial development of Irish designers and makers, stimulating innovation, championing design thinking and informing Government policy.
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