The books in this series explore the relations, in human social and cultural life, between perception, creativity and skill. Their common aim is to move beyond established …
A Kouvara - Journal of Futures Studies, 2024 - jfsdigital.org
This paper explores how the commons foster the construction of an alternative technological pathway premised on a shared vision for a sustainable future. First, I delineate the …
This paper explores the transformative relations of unknowable possibility in three urban communities which upcycle human waste. Working with communities–human and …
A Klemichen, I Peters, R Stark - Frontiers in Sustainability, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The steady growth of makerspaces to decentralized production enables access to new and previously unknown technologies for diverse users and thus equally promotes the social …
Digital maker culture is increasingly studied for its impact on production and consumption patterns, technological innovation, educational potential and citizen engagement in design …
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with pattern, finding coherence within …
E Berglund, C Kohtala - In search of lost futures: Anthropological …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Materialist Activist Communities (MACs) concern themselves with material flows in a politically engaged form of maker culture. They speculate, design and make collectively …
E Schmitt, M Macias, D Karwat - Science & …, 2024 - sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi
What happens when academics, who “conceptualise research questions”, and community groups, which aim to be “doing things”, collaborate? Building on STS research about …
P Hector, C Kohtala - Local Environment, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Experiments are deemed not only useful, but necessary in sustainability transformation to enhance local decision-making. This is especially apparent in Finland where national …