The course aims to foster:
- Understanding of openness in design, in terms of open-to-participate processes and openly shared design knowledge,
- Recognition of the potentials of open design in espousing alternative modes of production and consumption, alternative forms of collaboration and doing business,
- Skills and experience for distributed creative processes, their horizontal management and its iterative nature,
- Critical reflection on the novel roles and responsibilities of designers in such creative processes in an increasingly de-centralised and connected world.