Leonardo Amico

Programming Objects

What if objects were produced the way open source software is developed?

Creating software has become a flexible, collaborative, and adaptable process: projects develop as code is openly shared, reviewed, adapted, and distributed. Simultaneously, home appliances are increasingly dependent on inflexible standards of production leading to a lack of reparability, less adaptability, and more waste. With affordable technologies of digital manufacturing and electronic platforms, translating code into matter is becoming possible for everyone.

Programming object thus seek to bring open source software practices into the world of (open hardware) appliances. Moving away from a top-down approach from corporation to consumer, to one where objects are designed, developed, and produced democratically within open communities.

Selected Press - DesigboomGizmodo


Role / Responsabilities

Concept/Interaction Design - Project realized as part of BIO50, 24th Biennial of Design Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Photos by Tilen Sepič

© 2014 Hacking Households (Tilen Sepič, Jesse Howard, Thibault Brevet, Leonardo Amico, Jure Martinec, Nataša Muševič, Coralie Gourguechon)