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 […]
A number of grassroots appropriations of ‘smart’ technologies in urban settings are being studied as part of the KNOWING project (the knowledge politics of smart urbanism). Adrian Smith is studying […]
Mari Martiskainen has published a new article (open access) with colleagues that builds on her work with the CISE project, and now looks at Energy Cafés. Community action has an […]
This citizen science project studies repair and making activities within community-based workshops in Germany, and is led by Melanie Jaeger-Erben and Sabine Hielscher, ZTG, TU Berlin, Germany Around the world, […]
Last summer, Andy Stirling and Adrian Smith were invited to contribute a ‘thinkpiece’ about grassroots innovation to Friends of the Earth’s Big Ideas series. We explored how grassroots innovation initiatives, […]
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 […]
This article focuses on the role of community leadership in the development of grass- roots innovations. It asks: When community leaders initiate energy projects, what types of skills and knowledge […]
