RFRodrigo Argenton Freire

Rodrigo Argenton Freire

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Rodrigo Argenton Freire has a total of 6 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:


Latest Publications

  • Challenges of open design in low-income communities: a case study of residential rainwater harvesting systems

    by Rodrigo Argenton Freire, Jarkko Levänen, Jérémy Bonvoisin

    Open design (OD) is a promising approach to address global sustainability challenges. At the same time, however, the increased use of OD brings new challenges. To understand the potential of OD in a specific context, we adopted the concept of a residential rainwater harvesting system (RWHS) as a case study. We first identified the critical design features of the RWHS. After that, we analysed the potential for local reproduction of these features at the grassroots level of low-income communities in developing countries. This analysis revealed that varying limitations related to materials, skills, and manufacturing tools may hamper the adoption of OD by local communities when trying to improve their water management. In the light of our findings, we argue that OD processes are likely to face challenges if replicability, substitutability and adaptability are not successfully integrated into the design. We suggest a design-for-frugality mindset and adoption of parametric design processes and design parameters as key strategies to boost OD processes in low-income communities. We also stress the importance of safety and liability aspects in the studied context.


  • Open Access

    The impact of sharing platforms on collaborative design development during emergencies: the case of COVID-19

    by Rodrigo Argenton Freire, Evandro Ziggiatti Monteiro

    The COVID-19 outbreak resulted in an emergency of projects developed, shared and produced by makers, fablabs and open source enthusiasts. These projects are often released in design sharing platforms, e.g. Thingiverse, Github and Instructables, under open source licenses. It is often argued that the release of such projects holds potential for enhancing collaboration, continuous development and design dissemination. These arguments have been subject of recent studies on the structure of maker/Open Design communities and sharing platforms. This study aims to contribute to the on-going debate on the potentialities of such communities. We adopt an explorative approach to (i) identify the influence of the COVID-19 outbreak on the activity volume of Thingiverse, the object of our study, (ii) analyze the designs metadata and its network patterns, and (iii) identify interaction patterns based on real-world localities. Based on our findings we comment on the importance of the maker/Open Design communities to tackle critical situations and highlight the current limitations for a wider dissemination of open source designs. Our findings may contribute to build better tools for designers and enthusiasts of the maker/open culture as well as to studies on collaborative development.


  • Open Access

    An axiomatic approach to forcing and generic extensions

    by Rodrigo A. Freire

    This paper provides a conceptual analysis of forcing and generic extensions. Our goal is to give general axioms for the concept of standard forcing-generic extension and to show that the usual (poset) constructions are unified and explained as realizations of this concept. According to our approach, the basic idea behind forcing and generic extensions is that the latter are uniform adjunctions which are ground-controlled by forcing, and forcing is nothing more than that ground-control. As a result of our axiomatization of this idea, the usual definitions of forcing and genericity are derived.


  • Open Access

    O estudo da morfologia urbana na Região Metropolitana de Campinas

    by Evandro Ziggiatti Monteiro, Silvia Aparecida Mikami Gonçalves Pina, Rodrigo Argenton Freire, Daniel Teixeira Turczyn

    Resumo O presente estudo tem como objetivo apresentar uma revisão atualizada das recentes pesquisas de morfologia urbana para um recorte específico do território brasileiro, a região metropolitana de Campinas (RMC). Como objetivo secundário, este trabalho também se propõe a identificar a influência da morfologia urbana como corrente internacional sobre os trabalhos da RMC, notadamente por meio das suas três principais escolas. O método consiste numa revisão da produção acadêmica realizada na RMC sobre morfologia urbana nos últimos dez anos, por meio da qual se buscam identificar os pesquisadores e grupos de pesquisa relacionados a essa ciência. Numa primeira fase, é utilizada a expressão de busca “Forma Urbana” E “Campinas” OU “Região Metropolitana de Campinas”, nas bases de dados Google Scholar. Numa segunda fase, os currículos dos autores encontrados são escrutinados com um leque maior de palavras-chave. Na parte final do artigo, é exposto, como exemplo dessa produção da RMC, uma pesquisa com foco na morfologia urbana contemporânea. Os resultados apontam para certo descolamento de abordagens e métodos nos trabalhos da RMC em relação à corrente principal de morfologia urbana internacional, mas indicam, sobretudo, o crescimento desse diálogo, principalmente na esteira recente dos ISUFs e PNUMs.


  • Open Access

    Desafios do Open Design

    by Rodrigo Argenton Freire, Evandro Ziggiatti Monteiro, Claudio Lima Ferreira

    Recentemente, uma grande variedade de projetos, comunidades e negócios têm adotado o conceito de Open Design (OD). Seus benefícios são associados à democratização dos processos de projeto, maior capacidade de inovação, customização e também à possibilidade de se tornar uma alternativa aos modelos de negócios tradicionais. Três exemplos, ligados à arquitetura e desenho urbano, foram selecionados para explorar sua aplicabilidade. Quatro princípios foram considerados: transparência, acessibilidade, replicabilidade e modularidade. Nossos resultados mostram que a democratização, considerada um componente chave do OD, ainda é dependente de tecnologias nem sempre disponíveis para comunidades em países em desenvolvimento