Spreading the word about grassroots innovation
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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3S launch Key Insights to Making Sustainability Social
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 […]
GI briefing 25: Unleashing Grassroots Innovations
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 […]
Research Briefing 24: FabLab and Hackerspace websites
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 […]
Postcards from Community Energy
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 […]
Research Briefing 23: Grassroots fabrication in makerspaces – report from a world café
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 […]
GI briefing 21: Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability
Constructing grassroots innovations for sustainability: New research in the field Adrian Smith and Gill Seyfang introduce a new collection of academic papers on grassroots innovations, and discuss the origins and […]
