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A talk by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl, founders of Burdastyle.com, will share their experiences building an active, creative community based on open-source sewing over the past three years. The BurdaStyle community consists of more than 260,000 registered members who have uploaded almost 25,000 designs. BurdaStyle is a collaborative DIY fashion platform inspired by open-source philosophy, which advocates sharing intellectual property and allowing the members of the public to adapt it to their specific needs. BurdaStyle encourages its members to remove copyright restrictions from their designs. These open-source sewing patterns are then free to be used as the basis for new designs that can be sewn and even sold by other community members. Nora and Benedikta will discuss their successes and failures in building a platform for a creative community to share instructions and techniques, creating a balance between open collaboration and authorship, and enabling a true networked design process. About the Networked Design Talks:
The rise of the Internet over the past few decades has led to the growth of networked culture. The effects of this phenomenon extend far beyond the use of tools: It has changed how people communicate and how they manage, construct, and perceive individual and group identities. This cultural shift requires the creative industry to reexamine its use of messages, symbols, and aesthetics and to study their function within a constantly changing networked environment. The Networked Design Talks represent the first step of an academic research initiative in this area undertaken by Parsons AAS Graphic Design faculty members and led by the Graphic Design program’s director, Katarzyna Gruda. Sponsored by the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design
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