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 […]
Grassroots innovations in the development and use of digital technologies are generating important alternatives to the latest wave of automation in societies. A report explains more based on insights emerging […]
The relationship between technology and human capabilities is ambivalent and complex. A new article by Cian O’Donovan and Adrian Smith reports analysis of how users experience enhanced (or diminished) capabilities […]
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 […]
A new briefing from the STEPS Centre, called Making Futures, includes a summary of some activities we’ve initiated in recent years to help spread the word about grassroots innovation. More […]
Adrian Smith from SPRU recently published a new working paper that draws upon research in makerspaces in order to explore and illustrate some of the politics of social innovation, and […]
You can get a twenty per cent discount on buying our new book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, published by Routledge and available in Paperback as well as Hardcover. The discount code […]
Back in October we organised a workshop at the Machines Room makerspace in London, where participants addressed the question, how can makerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments. The results of the […]
The aim of this event on Monday 26 October at the Machines Room in London is to bring together people involved or interested in sustainability activities to share, discuss, and […]
What happens when public authorities take an interest in makerspaces? Who gets empowered by initiatives to give tools to the people, and what kinds of citizenship are envisaged? In this […]
As part of the TRANSIT research project, Sabine Hielscher, Mariano Fressoli and Adrian Smith produced two case study reports on Fab Labs and Hackerspaces respectively. Each report documents the development of FabLab […]
Adrian Smith was in Edinburgh on Monday 9th February to give a seminar about grassroots digital fabrication to the Institute for Studies of Science, Technology and Innovation. The seminar, Liberatory […]
“Throughout the history of both modern environmentalism and development there has existed an insistent undercurrent of practical, grassroots initiatives seeking socially just and environmentally sustainable forms of production and consumption”. […]
Newly posted (pdf) to the site is a literature review on grassroots digital fabrication by Sabine Hielscher and Adrian Smith at SPRU (Science & Technology Policy Research). Community-based digital fabrication workshops (such […]
In Research Briefing 24 Sabine Hielscher (SPRU) outlines initial impressions gained from an analysis of selected web-based materials on FabLabs and Hackerspaces in the UK to find out what type of […]
On Thursday 10th April 2014 we organised a half-day World Café workshop in Copenhagen on the topic of grassroots fabrication in makerspaces. It formed one session within a wider conference […]
On 3rd June 2014 the Centre for Sustainable Design will be hosting a workshop that explores Makers & Fixers: circular economy and grassroots innovation. The event will explore activities ‘within hacklabs […]
Sabine Hielscher and Adrian Smith have written a blog reflecting on some of the more affective issues arising from World Café discussions about grassroots digital fabrication: Building and nurturing a […]
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