Lectures Program

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Common trunk of knowledge

Regardless which minor is chosen by the student, they will follow together a common lectures series that provide the theoretical foundation of the domain. A particular attention is given to the following topics:

Free Culture

  • Historical elements of free and open source software culture
  • from free software to open source
  • from FLOSS to free culture and free knowledge
  • Free cultural works

You would not download a car

  • Impact of standard copyright and contract laws on networked media
  • Piracy
  • Subculture and copyright

Appropriation and plagiarism in art and design

  • Proto-copyleft art and design practices;

The art of prototyping

  • Ready made tools are for ready made solutions


Choose your own license

  • free culture and free knowledge licenses
  • fragmentation
  • license as manifesto
  • free market

Sustainability and commercial strategies

Community and sustainability

  • sharing is caring
  • activism and social awareness
  • DIY, DIWO and DITO
  • crowdfunding and the commons

The ethics of design

  • open data
  • credits
  • manipulation
  • defcad