D*signweek 2025
How do your practice and projects relate to the design week motto, “For who(m) is the making?”
The design week motto asks about the inter-dependent relationships between designers, audiences and design itself. This inter-dependency is also expressed in OSP’s circular motto “Tools shape practice shape tools...”. It’s not a huge stretch of the imagination to make the same connection between those who develop or host tools and those who use them.
CC is (currently) a server for design and publishing experiments. CC is also currently two people (hardly a crowd). We have practices based around making tools, making layouts and making public and we want to find others with whom we share common ground and needs. While the CC server hosts F/LOSS tools that are offered for public use, we want to form a convivial (rather than purely commercial) relationship with them.
Do you have any examples of specific self-developed practices or tools you use in your work?
We struggle with the term “self-developed” when describing our practices or tools, as it is easy to think that they are independent. And nothing could be further from the truth!
The tools and practices of CC are situated within our experiences as part of collectives such as OSP (Open Source Publishing) and Varia, as well as within the ethics and culture of organisations we relate to, such as lurk.org, riseup.net, and indeed, servus.at (among many others, too many to list here).
However, CC is becoming known for these tools on the CC server, which are configured in certain ways and pipelines:
- octomode
- wiki-to-print