Post-automation
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 […]
Author Archives: Adrian Smith
Technology and human capabilities in UK makerspaces
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 […]
Doing digital differently: four lessons from grassroots innovators
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 […]
Capitulo: Traduciendo sustentabilidades entre nichos ecológicos y regímenes socio-tecnicos
En los ultimos años Adrian Smith ha tenido la privilegia de colaboración con colegas y comunidades en America Latina e España en el desarrollo de innovación de base y sostentabilidad. […]
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 […]
Makerspaces and institutions – a special issue of Journal of Peer Production
Developing out of research into grassroots appropriations of digital farbictation, Kat Braybrooke and Adrian Smith recently guest edited the publication of the Journal of Peer Production dedicated to research articles […]
Post-automation, grassroots innovation and Corbyn
Adrian Smith was recently interviewed (May 20th) in the newsletter of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. He explained his ideas for post-automation and the importance for democracy of grassroots innovation and […]
