Mitch Altman and Vinay Gupta on open source design

Are a lot of the efforts of new networks of designers often in the form of hackers or open source communities - too focused on arguing about the need to break down existing structures? Or is there more happening beyond that? What can those networks be doing now to create real value? Do hackers and open source networks have an identity and meaning that can defined by what they are, rather than what they aren't?

Here Mark Charmer talks with San Francisco-based virtual reality and hacker god Mitch Altman, inventor of, amongst other things TV-B-Gone, and Vinay Gupta, open source hardware guru and inventor of the Hexayurt open source refugee shelter.

Design Museum, Butler's Wharf, London. 9 July 2009

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