Abstract Emerged at the intersection of open-source, do-it-yourself and maker movements, and blurring of the lines among users, designers and producers, open design suggests a continuous process of co-designing open to everyone and demonstrates opportunities for repair, reuse and upgrading through transparent processes and design sharing. While such opportunities are conceptualized in literature, how they can (or should) be reflected in design is an open question worth exploring. This paper presents an exploratory study on product/part longevity, personalization and reuse to find out the implications of open design for transforming an already established product category like small kitchen appliances. For this purpose, research through co-designing methodology was developed and utilized through two design workshops on practices shaped around small kitchen appliances. The study revealed sustainable design considerations for idea-generation, open part properties that respond to them, the strategies for iterating open designs and their implications for product/part longevity, personalization and reuse.

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在小型厨房电器的开放式设计中探索产品/零件寿命

摘要开放设计源于开源，自己动手和制造商运动的交集，并且模糊了用户，设计师和生产者之间的界限，它暗示着一个持续的共同设计过程，向所有人开放，并展示了维修的机会，通过透明的流程和设计共享进行重用和升级。尽管此类机会在文献中已得到概念化，但如何（或应该）将其反映在设计中是一个值得探讨的开放问题。本文对产品/零件的寿命，个性化和重复使用进行了探索性研究，以了解开放设计对改造已经确定的产品类别（如小型厨房电器）的意义。以此目的，通过两个针对小型厨房电器的实践设计研讨会，开发并利用了通过协同设计方法进行的研究。该研究揭示了可持续的设计考虑因素，包括产生想法，响应这些想法的开放零件特性，迭代开放设计的策略及其对产品/零件寿命，个性化和重复使用的影响。