Has anyone come across any information design research project/group/community which makes infographics of supply chains of the making/manufacturing behind really complex biomedical devices like MRI and drug manufacturing, testing equipments like spectrometers, chromatographs?
With the aim of documenting everything necessary in order to make #openhardware, #opensource alternatives to them?
We asked around and as it happens there is a new initiative from one of our Assoziation members in partnership with the founding #OpenSourceHardware design from #PTB you might want to check this out
Any resource which has infographics on supply chain of each part needed for manufacturing scientific instruments?
Think of everything that an org like ThermoFisher Scientific makes & has monoply on & creating an infographic of their entire supply for each part for each device
and alongside the making of each part of the supply chain for each product, imagine if there was open source online lexicon of 100 most recurring activities, concepts, terminology of 100 most imp roles of 100 most imp orgs in each of these industry sectors; done over a year
An interactive site which has a catalogue of product category from every industry, sector but which is organised according to it's need and usage for production and consumption in different areas, places and stages of life for individuals and groups
& Each product is reverse engineered and deconstructed, given an STS critique and proposes designs for making alternative open source appropriate tech and all that is stitched together as a syllabus.
Online glossary of all these 👇 in all these industry sectors
industry lingo
breakdowns & concerns
belief systems
Set of attitudes, resources, mental models, narratives of social practices repeatedly relied upon across common events & processes in different org contexts
& combining the above with daily mundane social practices and needs and common life events
Basically supply chain information and trade statistics, industry lingo of each product category from each industry/sector organized visualized around daily mundane social practices & needs and common life events instead of HS codes
With open source schematics, blueprints & documentation, open educational resources for manufacturing every device, appliance, machine, raw material, parts, industrial machinery for every appliance people use in different areas of life
along with sts critiques and stitched it together as a series of workbooks. Think of everything inside your house, every appliance, furniture, tool, utensil was lego-like and provided with instructions, blueprint on how to tweak, deconstruct, modify repair & build it from scratch
Imagine if there was open source lexicon of 100 most recurring activities, concepts, terminology of 100 most imp roles of 100 most imp orgs in each of these industry sectors; done over a year, related to their domain expertise, skills, capacities
Completely open on the web, imagine the number of startups that could then bloom!
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