Niger cooperative project

Core77 Design Blog

via Core77

Downloading Designs: Our Home Becomes Our Factory (TreeHugger)

Downloading Designs: Our Home Becomes Our Factory (TreeHugger)

Treehugger have a post with a few links to open source cardboard toys.

Also via Treehugger and Boingboing, have you seen the desktop CNC machine?

Or you could always just build your own... We're getting ever closer to an open source world.

Turf

Have recently come into possession of this book, a source code for simple household furniture

John Thackara: Global place - or is it a hat?

Doors of Perception weblog: Global place - or is it a hat?: "Design schools should relocate en masse to favelas and slums. These informal economies are sites of intense social and business innovation."

Another punchy, interesting post from John Thackara, linking design for sustainability, appropriate technology, service design and co-design.