It started as a thread from Christopher Doering - a couple of suggestions a prompt:
"Hello.
I was wondering what "ODC" is all about. And how to describe it in two or three words. Clear, unmistakeable and unique. It order to communicate to the outside and the inside world. Something like a brand name and a tagline.
Proposals include:
Open Design City - Creative Workshop
Open Design City - a space to create and share
ODC - Produktionswerkstatt
ODC- Make something happen
etc.
What else can we come up with?
Please make suggestions and send it back to me!"
I tentatively offered:
Open Community Space
Open Source Community Space
Open Maker Space
Community Maker Space
Then Christophe Valliant drops in:
Open Design City - merging minds
Open Design City - tangible learning
Open Design City - sharing knowledge
Open Design City - meet your peer
Open Design City - experience diversity
Open Design City - shaping future
Open Design City - Makerzone
Open Design City - Make your Goods
Open Design City - share your vision
DIY? DIT!
Open Design City - experimental zone for physical literacy
Open Design City - space for collaborative knowledge production
Open Design City - leave your computers
Open Design City - peer-to-peer workshop
Open Design City - Join the Berlin Maker Community
Open Design City - the world is physical!
Open Design City - physical thinking
Open Design City - thinking with hands
Open Design City - tangible inspiration
Open Design City - communicate by working with your hands
Open Design City - manufacturing ideas
How would you define Open Design City?

ODC
- a space to make free culture happen
- free culture workshop
- free culture community
- physical hacklab (or material hacklab)
- physical literacy laboratory
- playing, making & sharing
- taste, touch and play, make and share
- ...
ODC - Original.dirty. creative.
ODC - get your hands dirty
ODC - make stuff, make community