FREE CULTURE & THE CULTURE OF "FREE"

A 4th Quarter Project – 2nd Year Graphic Design Department, Willem de Kooning Academy, 2013

possible topics

• remix culture – rip mix burn
http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
• copy(paste)culture
http://www.tedxamsterdam.com/2011/close-up-on-culture-copy-paste-culture/
• creative commons/copyleft
• "amateur" culture vs "professional"
(democratization of tools and media > effects the role of the professional designer)
• open source tools and platforms (F/LOSS)
• template culture
• free content : archives – video, image, texts / data / essays, academic articles, news, literature,
• …

possible outcomes

• wiki containing documentation of process and outcomes various assignments, and including reflections on free culture and the culture of free (edited and maintained by Text)
• mapping of free culture tools, platforms and resources for the graphic designer – possibly in relation to the non-free culture designer tools (Design Research)
• x-amount of versions of visual identity for event, manifested in various media and channels : print, digital, audio-visual, spatial (Graphic Design, Typography)
• designing a value currency for "free" applying only free culture tools in the design process – and yes I get the irony of using a currency for "free" (Crosslab)
• remixes
• …