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What are we doing when we DO open science and inclusive innovation?

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Adrian Smith, Research Fellow at the Sussex Energy Group and Convenor of Grassroots Innovation Project at the STEPS Centre, wrote a blog post on 12th November 2015 on ‘What are we doing when we do open science and inclusive innovation?’…

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Moving beyond products to material culture

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BLOG 2 Prototyping or debating sustainable developments in makerspaces? Adrian Smith, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex September 2015 In the previous blog I introduced some of the diverse ways that makerspaces are helping cultivate sustainable developments. Admittedly, these…

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Why should we seek sustainable developments in makerspaces?

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BLOG 1 Why should we seek sustainable developments in makerspaces? Adrian Smith, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Community-based workshops like hackerspaces, fablabs and makerspaces, equipped with design, prototyping and fabrication tools have spread rapidly in recent years. Interest…

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Makers, fixers and circular economies

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The connection between grassroots making and fixing movements and innovation for low energy demand may not be immediately obvious. When thinking about energy demand and resource use it is reasonable to focus attention on immediate and intensive activities, such as…

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Building and nurturing a community: the importance of material and emotional dimensions in grassroots innovation

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As part of our CIED activities and with support from Ellen van Oost (University of Twente), Johan Soderberg (IFRIS) and Sascha Dickel (Technical University Munich), we recently ran a session for practitioners and academics involved and interested in grassroots digital…

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