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Category Archives: Events

Makerspaces making sustainable developments …

June 21, 2016by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Digital fabrication, Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Publications, Report

CfP:Digital fabrications amongst hackers, makers and manufacturers: whose ‘industrial revolution’?

December 14, 2015by Adrian Smith

We invite abstracts for a track we are organising on the theme of digital fabrications amongst hackers, makers and manufacturers, and which will take place in Barcelona over August 31 to September […]

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Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Uncategorized

Event: How can makerspaces, fablabs and hackerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments?

August 26, 2015by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Alternative Technology, Digital fabrication, Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News

Liberatory technologies? Grassroots digital fabrication

February 12, 2015by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Digital fabrication, Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), Publications

How can citizen laboratories and maker culture contribute to sustainable development?

November 21, 2014by Adrian Smith

On Tuesday 18th November I participated in a debate organised by the Centro de Innovación y Tecnología para Desarrollo Humano at MediaLab-Prado on the topic, How can citizen laboratories and […]

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Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Projects

Blog: Recordando el Plan de Lucas y el movimiento para producción socialmente util

August 14, 2014by Adrian Smith

An edited Spanish version is now online of Adrian Smith’s blog about the Lucas Plan and movement for socially useful production originally posted in English on the Guardian newspaper site. […]

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Alternative Technology, Events, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), GIHCP (Historical and Comparative Perspectives), News

Our community energy research becomes part of an interactive exhibition in London and Cardiff

June 12, 2014by Adrian Smith

With the initiative and support of Cardiff University, the Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy project is participating in an exhibition in London and Cardiff. Information about dates and venues is […]

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CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Events

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Grassroots Innovations

Grassroots innovations are community-led solutions for sustainability. Here we present news and updates from a series of research projects on grassroots innovations, based at the University of East Anglia and University of Sussex. Our research aims to better understand how these innovations develop and grow, and how they can be harnessed to meet sustainability policy objectives.

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  • PhD: Transforming Sustainabilities: Grassroots Narratives in an Age of Transition. An Ethnography of the Dark Mountain Project (Jeppe Graugaard)
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