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Category Archives: Briefings

Smart cities need thick data not big data

May 24, 2018by Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Briefings, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News, Publications, Uncategorized

Spreading the word about grassroots innovation

September 22, 2017by Adrian Smith

A new briefing from the STEPS Centre, called Making Futures, includes a summary of some activities we’ve initiated in recent years to help spread the word about grassroots innovation. More […]

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Alternative Technology, Briefings, Digital fabrication, News, Uncategorized

3S launch Key Insights to Making Sustainability Social

April 27, 2017by Gill Seyfang

This week the 3S research group are launching our seven key insights resulting from our work on societal engagement with sustainability over the last five years. We believe these insights […]

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Briefings, News

GI briefing 25: Unleashing Grassroots Innovations

July 24, 2015by Gill Seyfang

  Unleashing Grassroots Innovations: A Quest For Community Currency Growth How can grassroots innovations grow, achieve their potential, and increase their influence? Gill Seyfang presents findings of a 3-year quest to […]

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Briefings, Complementary Currencies, GICC (Grassroots Innovations: Complementary Currencies), Publications

Research Briefing 24: FabLab and Hackerspace websites

August 1, 2014by Adrian Smith

In Research Briefing 24 Sabine Hielscher (SPRU) outlines initial impressions gained from an analysis of selected web-based materials on FabLabs and Hackerspaces in the UK to find out what type of […]

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Briefings, Digital fabrication, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication)

Postcards from Community Energy

May 14, 2014by Gill Seyfang

Community energy is growing and making a difference. All around the country, more and more people are getting involved in projects that develop sustainable energy in their communities. Through awareness-raising […]

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Briefings, CISE (Community Innovation in Sustainable Energy), Community Energy, News, Publications

Research Briefing 23: Grassroots fabrication in makerspaces – report from a world café

May 11, 2014by Adrian Smith

On Thursday 10th April 2014 we organised a half-day World Café workshop in Copenhagen on the topic of grassroots fabrication in makerspaces. It formed one session within a wider conference […]

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Briefings, Digital fabrication, GDF (Grassroots Digital Fabrication), News

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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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