Open Source Studio provides a space where we can share our work, exchange ideas as well as improve and build on each other’s concepts. It has the potential to provide a platform for collaboration of endless possibilities between any disciplinary. As I continue to read the essay linked to us, I realise the exchange of opinions and the weekly discussions I have in class (that helped me to improve my final outcome of my artwork) could happen in the OSS platform – and all of it would be documented and easily accessible.

OSS helps to break down the need to keep your ideas to oneself. It helps a person from feeling protective of their ideas, and by acknowledging it will benefit them and everyone else, to contribute them for the common good.

Creative inspiration comes from creative inspiration comes from social interaction, peer-to-peer methods of collaboration, collegial sharing, and collective research. (The way of open source, https://zakros.com/open-source-studio/)

It breaks down existing hierarchy and helps artists and designers put their guard down and help them grow together as a community.

Open source is a way of life and a philosophical commitment to breaking down existing hierarchies, promoting openness and fairness, encouraging experimentation, and insuring the freest and broadest possible distribution of knowledge, intellectual, and creative resources. (The way of open source, https://zakros.com/open-source-studio/)

ActionAppraisal Wallpaper, http://www.actionappraisal.us/bee-hive-com/

I chose this image because I feel that just like bees, artists/designers don’t flourish well alone. We need each other to function as a community, to be open and free with sharing knowledge and ideas.