Back in 2005, Clay Shirky presented, among other interesting points, a good reflection on the values of contribution between people part of a institution and a group of collaborators. Anyone concerned in understanding more of where we are going should take some minutes to watch it.
Posted by: Henrique On: July 17th, 2008
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This is what you get when you export green thunders in a box from Rhinoceros as a .3dxml file and import into 3DVIA platform.
Navigate through the thunder storm I built by going to the Model`s page.
Posted by: Henrique On: July 9th, 2008
under Tools, Lets Evo Projects.
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If it looks as awesome as the amazingly crafted C-Thru Bike from BME, I am afraid it does.
The C-thru road frame is made from solid carbon rods carefully bonded together into its geometry. BME is the effort of the Slovakian engineer Brano Meres who has been experimenting among other things, with bamboo/carbon fiber constructions.
Now what would happen if we added a little bit of biology’s intelligence to Brano Meres’ construction?
Lets say, some adaptive design strategies regarding the spacing and dimension of the carbon rods….what do you think?
Nature puts material only where its needed… so there is a variation in the density of structures, always. Are the forces equal along the top tube of a Road Bike? If not…There could be some generative design patterns being applied to the construction defining its shape in relationship to the forces acting upon it…
Steffen R? What do you think? Ansys meets Generative Components meets Bike frame?
Give it up for Brano Meres. Amazing work, congratulations!
Posted by: Henrique On: June 12th, 2008
under Design, Bionics, Design for Sport.
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In an attempt to promote the exchange of knowledge between users and companies I am proud to put here at Letsevo the first post about two designers from Rio de Janeiro who are doing academic research at the TU Delft in the Netherlands.
Fabricio Astua and Richard Verdoorn (Estereo Design) are participating in the Master Course of Strategic Product Design in the TU Delft and are currently working on a project about co-branding and its influence on value perception.
Until the 11th of June, they are receiving the thoughts of users in a Net Questionnaire they prepared.
Further information about the research can be provided afterwards by the two of them in order to avoid biased responses. Thanks everyone in advance for participating in their survey.
I just put my inputs there and I am leaving the link here to all of you wanting to collaborate and leave your mark in their work.
Posted by: Henrique On: June 2nd, 2008
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Numa iniciativa de envolver artistas e de reunir desenhos para futuras artes dos shapes do projeto ecosk8 estou colocando disponível aqui no site um arquivo .PSD (photoshop) para servir de base para futuros gráficos dos decks ecosk8.
Se vc é um artista e quer participar:Leia mais
Posted by: Henrique On: April 14th, 2008
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The Letsevo Foundation has just sponsored the implementation of Basecamp application on the backend of the Letsevo network. The idea is to improve the communication between Innovators of the group in order to speed up the development process of each project.
Posted by: Henrique On: March 14th, 2008
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Surf’s up when the two rivers, Rio Negro and Rio Solimões meet each other. Most Def a Letsevo Destination. Enjoy the images.
Posted by: Henrique On: March 12th, 2008
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Charles Leadbeater just finished his book We-Think. And for it’s start, he put out this video in youtube questioning the crowd about the challenges of today’s sharing culture.
well, I think that the days of the lonely scientist are gone. Today, initiating conversations and sharing ideas is the a fundamental task in order to solve the complex problems that we face today.
Letsevo was started with the philosophy that there is a great power in open collaboration, and that great products can be achieved through an open interaction between people with different backgrounds. As a product designer, I have the power to visualize products and new uses of technologies. Designers can even go a little bit further and build rough prototypes of them. But in product Design, most of the times you need a lot of help implementing ideas, testing, taking them to production and finally market insertion. I think that sharing ideas and experiences on all of the development stages provide a chance for people who know better to influence and to collaborate in the design of products.
That is one of the very first ideas behind Letsevo, finding people with similar dreams to help bringing them to reality.
Now, how do you earn a living when everybody is sharing their ideas?
Letsevo thinks there has to be a balance on what you share and what sell. For example: Participating on the development of the open source operational system Linux, gives programmers the possibility to show off their skills and gain recognition in their field. Linux was created by a crowd of collaborators and it is free to download and to use it. But if you want to have support on implementing Linux in your company, you pay companies like Redhat to help you setting up everything right.
Sharing ideas in communities like Linux is a way of most people to start their professional life nowadays, gather experience, gain reputation in their field. Often, a lot of the people ho collaborate in projects like Linux are offered great jobs at companies like Microsoft, IBM or Google.
I really don’t know yet if something like that could be applied in product design, everything here at Letsevo is still really experimental. All we know is that sharing is fun and help ourselves achieve higher dreams.
The conversation has started, what do you think?
Posted by: Henrique On: March 10th, 2008
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Long before the term “User Generated” became popular, Eric von Hippel, an MIT Professor, has been spreading his thoughts about the role of “Lead users” in product innovation.
He has written a “Must Read” book for everyone interested in the way innovations come about. In Democratizing Innovation he dismantles the myth that most of Innovations come from a couple of top secret research centers inside the headquarters of big companies. The book shows us many examples of innovative products, born at the heart of user communities that are than later adopted by the companies and brought to the market.
The book can be downloaded for free in .PDF format and for those who prefer watching a video than to read a book, MIT World website has a great video of a lecture from Professor von Hippel at MIT. Reading or Watching, Democratizing Innovation is a Lets Evo top 5!
If you want to know more about user driven innovation, I definetely suggest taking a look at this lecture by Charles Leadbeater given at the TED Conference.
Posted by: Henrique On: March 7th, 2008
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e.Moped Project
