Lectures Program

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

You would not download a car

• Impact of standard copyright and contract laws on networked media
• Piracy, remix, memes

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

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