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Barcelona, July 2012 From open source branding to collaborative clothing Zoe Romano @zoescope @openwear_cc

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"Openwear.org: from open source branding to collaborative clothing" - Open Design / Shared Creativity Conference. Barcelona, 2012

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Barcelona, July 2012

From open source branding to collaborative clothing

Zoe Romano@zoescope

@openwear_cc

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In 2005 San Precario collective based in Milan organized an action to highlight the exploitation of workers in the fashion system

★ We created a fake fashion designer and managed to insert it in the official calendar of Milan Fashion Week

★ We presented a brand identity and the immaterial reality of her existence.

★ A collection of allegoric outfits expressing our experiences of work and, at the same time, showing our skills

★The action involved 200 workers and creatives living and working in Milan

Precarity in the Fashion System

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What to do next

After the Fashion Week and the successful action we decided to create a no-profit association to

★ keep reflecting on work in the creative industries - over-production

★ being active on experimenting self-production and craft - understanding quality

★ start a reflection on intellectual property, open-source and branding - value Fashion garments are not protected by copyright, only the brand is protected by trademark

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Oh! We have a Trademark

Brand built to appeal

Values Cultural mix - Controversy -

Elitistic

Brand as symbolic apparatus to gather relations toward

consumer culture

Brand expressing who is nurturing it

ValuesSharing - Social innovation - Flexicurity not precarity - Alternative economies

Brand as tool to promote new values in society

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The Fashion System: a polarization

Big Brands Fast Fashion

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A new trend: the rise of DIY

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The values, the imageries and the desires expressed by our brand are not manufactured to foster consumerism and based on exploitation but

to empower a network of small producers and promote a different kind of fashion based on collaboration, sharing, short supply chain and else.

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A Metabrand is not a Certification

A Metabrand is a bottom-up brand created buy a peer-reviewed network of small creators and

consumers who produce value for the brand and benefit from it at the same time

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EDUfashion network was formed by: Poper (Slovenia), Ethical Economy (UK), Università Statale Milano (IT), Copenhagen Business School (DM), Fashion University (Slovenia)

★ Research on the Open Design and p2p fashion

★ Prototyping the community in 2010

2009 Let’s go EU application

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Key point of experimentation

• Define the networked artisan as a new worker

fashion designer ------->networked artisan<------------ crafter/artisan

(highly immaterial) (highly material)

• Brand Open Source Copyright (Creative Commons License, GPL, etc.),

• Manufacturing becomes a distributed process (makers/manufacturers)

• Copy as a legitimate resource Fashion doesn’t protect the technical specification of the garments.

• The online community as a new Public Space

• Enterprise goes social: Social goals are primary, business is a way to achieve them

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The new role of the freelance designer: she inhabits the global spaces of online communities and shares locally projects and infrastructures

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NETWORKED ARTISANS/STUDENTS/CONSUMERS

LOCAL HUBS(social enterprises)

EDU INSTITUTIONS(universities, schools,

learning centers)Suppliers

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★ Building and online and offline community to share knowledge, find support and collaborators to define a new model for crafts.

3 shared resources

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★ A series of Collaborative collection with an open-source brand

★ Prototypes freely downloadable which members can produce and sell, benefiting from the social innovation created within the community.

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Openwear is open-source

★ A collective brand made open-source by a license

★ The pattern and the logo become a common of the community

http://vimeo.com/16541497

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- Download

- Produce

- Customize

- Label with Openwear

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Peer-reviewed Network

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WORKSHOP - Make it with the laser!

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Making it together is better than making yourself