Ronen Kadushin (b.1964) is an Israeli designer and design educator living in Berlin since 2005. He developed the Open Design concept, where the designs of his products can be downloaded, copied, modified and produced, much as in Open Source software. Based on this concept, he formed Open Design, a design and production company for furniture, lighting and accessories which are produced in Berlin and sold in Europe and the USA. Ronen Kadushin also designs furniture for international producers and teaches design at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.
Open Design flows with an essential cultural wave: towards free-er information, unrestricted expression, and open-source methods. In Open Design anyone can download and produce my designs for free. It encourages modification, redistribution, and direct contact with the designer. The presentation evolves around why and how I got into open design, what is it in terms of expressing creativity in IT context, its implications, and what could be helpful for an open design product development, production, and its business possibilities.
