OPEN CALL
A network of designers,
co-creating resources for open source, CiRCULAR products to be made nearly anywhere, by anyone.
THE COMPETITION
Do you have a design for an everyday product that is fit for the future?
Would you like to see it scaled, manufactured and brought to life as part of an exciting new programme?
If you have a design, product or process for the circular economy and want to see it developed in partnership with the largest, most innovative Participation Platform in the world, join the Open Making Society competition.
Selected designs will become test products for the Essential Works, a regenerative inclusive growth project that makes circular making part of the everyday.
We invite you to submit your product ideas, designs and manufacturing process to be part of the consideration for Essential Works manufacturing opportunity, by 1st March 2021 - we encourage multiple submissions.
The material and processes to manufacture are completely up to you, but your product submission should align to as many of the Essential Principles as possible, should be planet positive and easy to learn how to make.
Applications can be made from anywhere in the world.
DEADLINE: 1sT March 2021
Please download the design brief below for full details.
DROP-IN INFORMATION SESSION
We welcome anyone interested in taking part, or simply just has a question about the submission, please drop into an online Open Info session.
New dates tbc
To sign up to a session and be sent a link to find out more fill in this simple form.
The Open Making Society
The Open Making Society is a collective of designers building the future that we want to see, and is enabling communities across the globe with the open source tools to create it.
Open Making Society will assemble designs that can be manufactured anywhere, with a collection of essential products and designs to bring concepts out of the classroom and into neighbourhoods. We invite you to submit your design, product or process.
Selected designs will be prototyped, manufactured and scaled as part of the Essential Works programme in the Every One Every Day Warehouse.
Essential Works
The goal of Essential Works is to create inclusive growth, co-creating businesses with the local community that embody solutions to the multiple crises that we face. Working with 20 to 30 young people, the programme will develop and test trade a range of products and create new co-operative businesses fit for the future.
Essential Works will build a replicable model for incubating neighbourhood scale worker co-operatives, with designs that ensure that everything made is circular and builds thriving, resilient communities with space for participation for people from all walks of life.
Regenerative Resources
Rather than building a post Covid-19 economic recovery based on reverting to production methods which hurt the environment, the Open Making Society will incorporate a set of design principles which draw on Doughnut Economics and the Circular Economy to create socially and environmentally sustainable products which are genuinely essential to our lives. In partnership with Essential Works, these will become a blueprint for creating regenerative economies that value the equilibrium of people and the planet.
What YOU WIN
This competition will see selected designs going through a six month programme with young people to bring them to life. Selected ideas will become part of something big, and submitting your idea will get you in at the best possible time, right at the beginning!
You will become a project partner, with your name attributed to the final design and manufacturing process that will be shared open source with communities across the world.
A share of profits for each unit sold once the Barking and Dagenham Co-operative Businesses are established and trading.
Your design will be prototyped, manufactured and test traded as part of an innovative Covid-19 response project.
Knowledge and developments from the six month programme of manufacture and scaling will be shared with you for your own use.
Your design will form the backbone of an open source toolkit for communities, creating neighbourhood level manufacture for inclusive and resilient local economies.
Your name and a link to your website will be included in future communications relating to the products.
Your information and bio will be included in a design library of Open Making Society products.
You will be contributing to a tangible, real world programme bringing the open source circular economy to life and putting it in the hands of local people
Every One Every Day
Every One Every Day is the world’s largest Participation Platform, run and operated by The Participatory City Foundation in Barking & Dagenham. It allows residents to co-create and participate in projects that make the neighbourhoods that we all want to live in. Neighbourhoods that are inclusive, vibrant and where everyone has the tools at their fingertips to make amazing things happen.
Every One Every Day operates in five neighbourhood spaces including the Warehouse, the largest open access makerspace in the UK, which acts as a free resource for any local resident that wants to learn, make, create or join a collaborative business. Based over 3,300m2, the Warehouse will become the home of Essential Works, a new post-Covid incubator programme that models an economy that works for everyone and produces the products that the world needs.
For full understanding of the participatory ecosystem and the Every One Every Day project, please see our Year 2 Report - Tools To Act and visit our websites.