Collaborative and Crowdsourced Design

If the classic top-down model of design is being replaced by something more collaborative and horizontal, we want to know about it. Essentially, we want to find examples of crowdsourced design, discuss the process, try to decipher how effective it is. What are the advantages and disadvantages of designing this way? What stories can you gather?

To start with, who's practicing crowdsourced design? Collective urban planning at Burning Man? Architecture for Humanity's Open Architecture Network? Who else? We've started a preliminary list of collaborative design groups, but WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR SUGGESTIONS. This is a collaborative investigation, after all. If you'd like to report on one of these specifically, click the link and you'll be brought to that specific reporting page.

Design Break
Open Design Alliance
Think Cycle
Architecture for Humanity

If we zoom in and report on these, or other, groups individually, we can knit them together to create a big feature--and that's our goal. The big feature, if you're interested in writing it, should zoom out and ask the Big Questions. And you can help with those, too.