FLOSS

Free, Libre, Open Source Software, FLOSS, is software that is liberally licensed to grant the right of users to use, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code. The Free Software Definition states that the free software contains the following freedoms:
-The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0)
-The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
-The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2)
-The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Why is this relevant to my diploma? If we look at the rules of FLOSS and transfer them to abstract architectural principles, we see that a number of attempts have been made since the 70s to transfer such principles to the making of objects. In architecture the drawings and ether data is to be considered the "source" and therefore its important to open up the idea of the design process. The design will then reflect on the idea that; we want to see what happens if we work otherwise. The design will arise from the participation and configuration of those create and implement it. The aesthetics will be organization and not of form. An arisng problem with this thinking is the fact that it enables anyone to be a co-designer, but this does not mean that everyone will undertake to participate in this process. But, the system encourages people themselves to create their own spaces and collaboratively build a social space. It becomes an architecture that is produced through an open process that is never finished, there is no difference between the process, the design and the inhabitation.