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The following is a list of Open Design Websites, in alphabetical order. Most of this information is drawn from the Wikipedia article on Open Design.

Advanced Civilisation is a website dealing with "post-scarcity" society
http://www.adciv.org

Anansi Spaceworks is applying the principles of open source to the colonisation of space.
http://www.anansispaceworks.com

Appropedia is a wiki project focused on the development of a database of appropriate technologies and related areas.
http://www.appropedia.org 

Architecture for Humanity is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need. They provide innovative, sustainable and collaborative design where resources and expertise are scarce. In addition to responding to recent natural disasters and systemic issues they are working with a number of high tech companies, including Sun Microsystems, AMD and Creative Commons to develop the 
Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_for_Humanity

Concentrated Solar Power Open Source Initiative (CSPOSI) - "Low cost solar energy through open source design". Umbrella website for multiple projects.
http://www.csposi.org

Designbreak is a new open design organization – a nonprofit organization with an elegant development interface including a system for displaying CAD files in context. Designbreak purports to actively seek out or fund the manufacture of designs that have an application for the social good.  Users may apply for both open design and research grants under this organization; paid employment is available where appropriate to leaders of funded projects.
http://www.designbreak.org

Free engineer
http://freeengineer.org

Instructables is a website where people can share how they construct something in a step-by-step format. It was started by the MIT spin-off 'Squid Labs' originally as a quick and easy way to document and collaborate on their many projects, but is now open for everyone to use and is growing fast. Full of fun, interesting and useful things to make.
http://www.instructables.com

O.Design - Italian Open Source Design community
http://www.autistici.org/o.design

Open Architecture Network allows for online collaborative design and project implementation. A beta version of this network launches March 8, 2007 at the annual TED conference.
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org

OpenDesignOrg seems to have been the first Open Design website
http://www.opendesign.org

Open source product design
http://opensourceproductdesign.org

Open Peer-to-Peer Design - a website dedicated to the relationships between Design, Open Source and Complexity. More precisely, it's about how to face complex problems as sustainability using design as a tool to enable Open and Peer-to-Peer self-organizing communities.
http://www.openp2pdesign.org/blog

Society for Sustainable Mobility is implementing a 3-part solutions to the environmental problem caused by modern transportation. One of the key elements is the Open Design Infrastructure that support Open Design in a mass-market automotive environment. The Open Design Infrastrucutre includes the licensing structure and an open PDM/PLM system. The licensing scheme, however, indirectly prohibits the intellectual properties from uses other than for improving environmental sustainability.
http://www.osgv.org

ThinkCycle is perhaps the oldest successful open design organization. ThinkCycle has a small, active community of participants.   Several ThinkCycle projects have won New product development and innovation awards.  Features limited message board type collaboration.  The primary focus of Thinkcycle is on challenges among underserved communities and the environment.
http://www.ThinkCycle.org

Village Earth is a wiki project focused on the development of a database of appropriate technologies and related areas.
http://wiki.villageearth.org


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