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 […]
Category Archives: Digital fabrication
New working paper: social innovation, democracy and makerspaces
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 […]
Grassroots Innovation Movements
You can get a twenty per cent discount on buying our new book, Grassroots Innovation Movements, published by Routledge and available in Paperback as well as Hardcover. The discount code […]
Makerspaces making sustainable developments …
Back in October we organised a workshop at the Machines Room makerspace in London, where participants addressed the question, how can makerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments. The results of the […]
Event: How can makerspaces, fablabs and hackerspaces help cultivate sustainable developments?
The aim of this event on Monday 26 October at the Machines Room in London is to bring together people involved or interested in sustainability activities to share, discuss, and […]
Tooling up: civic visions, fablabs and grassroots activism
What happens when public authorities take an interest in makerspaces? Who gets empowered by initiatives to give tools to the people, and what kinds of citizenship are envisaged? In this […]
New: case study reports on FabLabs and Hackerspaces
As part of the TRANSIT research project, Sabine Hielscher, Mariano Fressoli and Adrian Smith produced two case study reports on Fab Labs and Hackerspaces respectively. Each report documents the development of FabLab […]
