Lectures Program
Contents
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
