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Imagine. a world where everything is made from open universal parts. We think it would be sustainable, fun & beautiful.

 
So we started to figure it out. Join us.

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An early set

The Marii

The Marii upgrades a classic open design chair to an open modular design built from multipurpose parts. By designer Audrey Burnard.

How it works

It’s “like LEGO meets IKEA“: We invent and use open multipurpose parts, creating a building system to make almost anything for a sustainable circular home from a small list of parts. 

Experiment with us: Use Ikego parts and create a sustainable circular products – as part of your professional design work or just for fun.

We aim to turn these solutions into products. Do you want to produce and sell parts of the system or entire products made from Ikego parts? Great!

Ikego enables different workshop formats, from hands-on to digital only, from university level to toddler friendly. Learn more about sustainable design. Book a workshop from us or offer Ikego workshops yourself.

Ikego is a strong approach to sustainable circular design. Let’s change design, collaboratively, forever!

Ikego is a collaborative circular design 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 distributed 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!

Ikego won the Distributed Design Award 2024
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