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Category Archives: Crafting and coding with digital fabrication technologies

Crafting and coding experiences with digital fabrication technologies

Technology and human capabilities in UK makerspaces

February 11, 2020by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Academic papers, Crafting and coding with digital fabrication technologies, Digital fabrication, News, Uncategorized

Makerspaces and institutions – a special issue of Journal of Peer Production

August 7, 2018by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Academic papers, Crafting and coding with digital fabrication technologies, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Publications, Uncategorized

Post-automation, grassroots innovation and Corbyn

May 24, 2018by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Crafting and coding with digital fabrication technologies, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Uncategorized

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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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