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Category Archives: Post-automaiton

Going beyond the smart city? Implementing technopolitical platforms for urban democracy in Madrid and Barcelona

June 12, 2020by Adrian Smith

This post reports research into the situated development over time of two digital platforms for democratic deliberation and decision. There has been renewed interest recently in techniques for facilitated citizen […]

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Academic papers, Knowledge politics of smart urbanism, Post-automaiton, Uncategorized

Post-automation

Featuredby Adrian Smith

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 […]

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Briefings, Digital fabrication, News, Post-automaiton, post-automation, Projects

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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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