After an initial introductory phase, in which the main news was the break in the professional relationship between the Maldini-Massara and AC Milan pair,
2020 will be remembered as a year of many challenges, but it will also seen perhaps as a turning point for the maker movement a series of conditions that helped crystallize and accelerate distinct processes, networks, and making into new forms; into a state the collaborators of this book have called, “a living laboratory.” The lasting impact of such changes remain to be seen, but it is clear that for the global community of makers, designers, technologists, scientists, and creative experimenters of all kinds there are new ways of going forward.
A new report out by the Distributed Design Platform
Viral Design captures the ingenuity, hard work, collaboration, and hope represented by the work of the past months. Supporting and connecting creatives, designers, makers, and innovators to participate in the creation of a new model of production and consumption, Distributed Design envisions a world in which “bits travel globally, while atoms stay local.” Viral Design asks the ques