Ikego is an evolving circular design system to make almost anything for your life.
Ikego is an evolving circular design system to build almost anything for your sustainable life
It’s “like IKEA met LEGO”
but free and open
but open
and built by you and me. Join:
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Find sets that are sold as products or order them locally from a workshop near you.
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Become a set designer
Use and evolve the open system with us to create sustainable circular products – as part of your professional design work or just for fun.
Make and sell Ikego sets
Do you want to produce and sell parts of the system or entire products made from Ikego parts? Great!
Learn and experiment
Ikego offers various workshop formats, from hands-on to purely digital, from university-level to toddler-friendly. Book a workshop or offer Ikego workshops yourself.
Make an impact!
Ikego’s approach to design is a strong example of sustainable and collaborative circular design. Let’s change design, forever! Together!
Build and remix your sustainable home
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Ikego won the Distributed Design Award 2024!
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Ikego is a circular design platform experiment. The core idea is to build products from open multipurpose parts – parts that can be creatively reused like LEGO® bricks – to create products that can be creatively transformed in infinite ways, enabling all imaginable sustainable circular practices. The system is collaborative: We invite designers to contribute new parts and sets – as part of their professional work or just for fun! The parts are open source and mostly easy to make. And we encourage manufacturers to make products using the Ikego System and to sell them on the market. Small local workshops can also make Ikego products and sell them to individual customers as a ”local make”. This is called decentralised manufacturing. The Ikego approach works also great for education about design and sustainability. We run workshops ourselves and support others to do the same. Ikego is in open beta. Let’s create a collaborative circular design revolution, together!
Featured set
The Marii
The Marii upgrades a classic open design chair to an open modular design built from multipurpose parts. By designer Audrey Burnard.
Highlighted part
095.3 ‘Elephant rod’
Introduced by designer Parker Haynes via the Elephant Shelf, this 120mm bar with two M6 insert nuts has already been re-used by 3 other designers and is now part of 14 models to date.
