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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 197, Issue -, Pages 1684-1693Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.09.077
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Commons; Open source; Degrowth; Open hardware; Localization
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- IUT grant of the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research [19-13]
- Estonian Ministry of Education and Research
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The emerging discussion about the sustainability potential of distributed production is the starting point for this paper. The focus is on the design global, manufacture local model. This model builds on the conjunction of the digital commons of knowledge and design with desktop and benchtop manufacturing technologies (from three-dimensional printers and laser cutters to low-tech tools and crafts). Two case studies are presented to illustrate three interlocked practices of this model for degrowth. It is argued that a design global, manufacture local model, as exemplified by these case studies, seems to arise in a significantly different political economy from that of the conventional industrial model of mass production. Design global, manufacture local may be seen as a platform to bridge digital and knowledge commons with existing physical infrastructures and degrowth communities, in order to achieve distributed modes of collaborative production. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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