Conventional models for digital technological developments tend to prioritise a linear approach around individual leaders (“founder worship”), a Venture Capital-based investment model, a high financial valuation, and market dominance through […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have a new working paper from our project Grassroots innovations in historical and comparative perspective. Mariano Fressoli from Fundación Cenit and Rafael Dias from UNICAMP have just published a […]
The Community Innovation for Sustainable Energy (CISE) project team has contributed to the latest Zero Carbon Britain (ZCB) research compiled by the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT). The latest report, Zero […]
The UK Department of Energy and Climate Change is currently consulting the public on its plans to develop a Strategy for community energy. The consultation is framed as call for […]
The Transition Movement is growing across the UK and the rest of the world, and has garnered a reputation as a vibrant grassroots movement for addressing climate change and preparing […]
This report presents new empirical findings from the first survey of UK Transition Initiatives. The Transition movement aims to mobilise community action and foster public empowerment and engagement around climate change, […]
Grassroots Innovations 