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 […]
Category Archives: Projects
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 […]
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 […]
Smart cities need thick data not big data
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 […]
Article: Community energy initiatives to alleviate fuel poverty: the material politics of Energy Cafés
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 […]
