Post-automation: grassroots innovation democratizing the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

A new open access article in the journal Futures by Adrian Smith and Mariano Fressoli contrasts grassroots subversion of some of the technologies of automation with the way automation is […]

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Book chapter: the knowledge politics of smart urbanism and technopolitics in Barcelona

Drawing upon Adrian Smith’s fieldwork in Barcelona under the Knowledge Politics of Smart Urbanism project, a team of researchers from the project have co-authored a chapter about shifts in digital […]

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New article: Making the most of community energies – three perspectives on grassroots innovation

The final, synthesis article from the CISE research project is published in the journal Environment & Planning A. The Open Access article (pdf) argues for a refocusing around the critical edges that […]

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