Schmidt, Florian Alexander
Crowd Design
From Tools for Empowerment to Platform Capitalism
Series:Board of International Research in Design

- eBook (PDF)
- Publication Date:
- July 2017
- Copyright year:
- 2017
- ISBN
- 978-3-0356-1067-3
Overview
- Examines the crowdsourcing of design as well as the design of crowdsourcing
- Uncovers the underlying mechanisms
Aims and Scope
The digital revolution is interwoven with the promise to empower the user. Yet, the rise of centralized, commercial platforms for crowdsourced work questions the validity of this narrative. In Crowd-Design, Florian Alexander Schmidt analyses the workings and the rhetoric of crowdsourced work platforms by comparing the way they address the masses today with historic notions of the crowd. The utopian concepts of early online collaboration are taken as a vantage point from which to view and critique current and, at times, dystopian applications of crowdsourced work. The study is focused on the crowdsourcing of design tasks, but these specific applications are used to examine the design of the more general mechanisms employed by the platform providers to motivate and control the crowds.
Crowd-Design is as much about the crowdsourcing of design as it is about the design of crowdsourcing.
Supplementary Information
Details
- 256 pages
- BIRKHÄUSER
- Language:
- English
- Type of Publication:
- Monograph
- Subjects
- Architecture and Design > Design > Designers
- Architecture and Design > Design > Graphics, Communication
- Architecture and Design > Design > Studies, Professional Practice
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