Collaborative Fashion Design: Nov 4

Networked Design #2
BurdaStyle.com: The Road to Collaborative Fashion Design
Wednesday, November 4, 6:30pm
Parsons School of Design
2 W. 13th St., Orientation room lobby

The second event in Parsons' Networked Design series, curated by Eyebeam honorary resident Mushon Zer-Aviv, is a talk by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta Karaisl, founders of Burdastyle.com. They will share their experience of the past three years building an active creative community based on open source sewing. The BurdaStyle community consisting of over 260,000 registered members that uploaded almost 25,000 designs. BurdaStyle is a collaborative DIY fashion platform inspired by the open source philosophy: the sharing of intellectual property and allowing the public to adapt it to their specific needs. BurdaStyle encourages its members to remove copyright restrictions from their designs. These open source sewing patterns are free to be used as the basis for a new design that can later be sewed and even sold by other community members. Nora and Benedikta will share their attempts to balance between open collaboration and authorship—maintaining the relations and connections of each work and its modifications to the members who created it. They will share their stories, successes and failures attempting to enable a true networked design process by building a platform for sharing instructions and techniques for a creative community.

http://eyebeam.org/this-week/09-10-28/november-4-networked-design-2-with-burdastylecom-the-road-to-collaborative