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.

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.

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.