Resources

Emerging at the intersection of the Maker Movement and design sensibility, Distributed Design provides a framework for designers, makers and creatives to innovate the field of design towards more sustainable, inclusive and collaborative practices.

As the final of four publications developed by the Distributed Design Platform, ‘This is Distributed Design’ presents a state of-the-art, in an effort to inspire makers, designers and scholars alike. Within these pages you will hear from a non-exhaustive list of experts, hobbyists and educators whose work is advancing Distributed Design, clarifying through practice, its standing as the framework for collaborative, open, inclusive, sustainable design.

The 2020 Distributed Design Academy concept was based around up-skilling designers and makers working in digital fabrication and empowering them with a set of tools to help them meet new and emerging markets.

The Academy resources from the fully online distributed course are now free to use by upcoming designers and makers who want to deepen their entrepreneurial knowledge and provide inspiration and guidance on how to access new markets. These resources can also be used by instructors and schools to help them bring perspectives on what distributed design means in different contexts.

The book collects observations and reflections from the Distributed Design Platform and extended community. It aims to give shape to the experiences of designers and makers across Europe and throughout the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Build a modular exhibition, designed by Anders Dahl at Underbroen.

Create your own DDMP stamp! Download the open files, ready to custom and manufacture with laser cutter.

Have a look at our Playbook where we introduce you to the Distributed Design project and the strategy for the European project’s second year.

A book that explores how distributed design is changing the way makers and designers approach collaboration, tools and the market.

How to communicate yourself and your project as a maker and designer? Discover tips and tricks with solid examples and a short training that will help you to communicate globally!

Mission to Make is a distributed design challenge, which sees the same design manufactured in syndication across platform member locations in Europe.

As an extension, Fred&Co are partnering with Makernet to take one of the winning lamp designs and test the theory of distributed manufacture in labs in Nepal, Ghana and Kenya.

An exhibition system designed to be modular, able to be constructed from local materials, anywhere.

This book explores the theoretical and practical experiences of Distributed Design as a preferred urban model for the future.