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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
