No longer from the furniture store, but with a download from a website, design goods take the form of a digital blueprint that the consumer takes to the local manufacturer for customizable on-demand production.
In collaboration with Waag Society, Droog is working with a network of designers, digital distributors, manufacturers and material suppliers to develop new business models and product designs for Downloadable design. Through a world wide platform for design distribution two pilots will be implemented to test the developed models and designs.
Possible benefits include lower product costs, less transport and less waste, new design concepts, more variation, possibility of co-creation, lower investment due to no warehousing, more responsive production chains, and involvement of the consumer in the design outcome. Not only for day-to-day goods, Downloadable design can play a role in global urgencies.
Currently we are in the design and development phase, look out for further announcements soon.
anja c. wagner on 08 Apr 11NExt SSE is a project committed to bringing capital to social ventures - organisations with a social, ethical or ecological focus and a sound business model. Investors in those ventures will in return receive increased transparency about the impact their money is making - both positive as well as negative. In this way, we hope to reconnect investors to the organisations they are funding, both parties responsible for their part of the deal: delivering impact, and chosing wisely.
