Investigate the impact of the current democratization of innovation that is occuring through the growing interest and shared knowledge of how to make almost anything.

As the global economy heavily relies on the conceptualisation, creation, production, distribution and marketing of goods and objects from large companies and organisation all over the world, what happens when more and more individuall are just doing-it-themselves. They have an idea, a need, they build something to answer it, no distribution required and no marketing needed. [–if anything some marketing is done online through alternative medias and distribution is usually local only].

Is this the signs of possible new economic models based around ideas of local/global, sustainability and/or personalisation? How can this be applied towards a new model that challenges established norms of consumerism? How can this answer some social/economic issues in developping countries?

The research will involve two production phases.
First, take currently existing do-it-yourself projects. Try them. Contribute to them, propose improvement.
Minty MP3 / very simple MP3
One girly, wearable project
One sustainability project, build your own solar power style thing[attempt to make them look and feel more designed, more finished maybe, less geeky so that they could apeal to more people]
[give them to people to try in exchange for what they have already. are they willing to adopt, do they get ideas of how they could do this themselves]
And conclude.

== Can we create an open source model for hardware, for products. Can we apply a model like this to ITP projects. We are always doing the same thing over and over, can we build on each other’s knowledge really and exchange together.

Second part:
Propose my own DIY project and publish it online as an open-source project. Try to focus on something that would be an electronic art and craft. See if people pick it up.