Grassroots Innovation Movements

Read the book Buy the book About the book This book, in the STEPS Centre’s Pathways to Sustainability series, looks at how six grassroots innovation movements around the world have…

How to cultivate sustainable developments in makerspaces

This report provides an overview of a workshop on Makerspaces held in London, which involved around 80 participants from the UK and Europe.

Co-design with aligned and non-aligned knowledge partners: implications for research and coproduction of sustainable food systems

An article by Anabel Marin, Adrian Ely & Patrick van Zwanenberg about the benefits and challenges involved in co-designing research projects on agriculture & food with partners who are ‘aligned’ or ‘non-aligned’ in their aims and values, published in the journal ‘Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’.

Technology for Autonomy and Resistance: The Appropriate Technology Movement in South America

STEPS Centre Working Paper 87 Download this paper (PDF 1 MB) Between the 1970s and 1980s appropriate technology (AT) become a worldwide grassroots innovation movement that sought to redefine technology as a…

3D Printing in Latin America – A new technological revolution?

This article by Mariano Fressoli (STEPS América Latina) and Adrian Smith (SPRU/STEPS) considers whether 3D printing signals a technological revolution for Latin America. Published in the 50th Anniversary issue of…

ISSC concept note: The future of seeds (and agriculture) in Argentina

Download (PDF) The dominant agricultural production system in Argentina and other parts of Latin America is based on high external input, intensive, large scale commodity crop production for export (e.g….

The Social Technology Network: A hybrid experiment in grassroots innovation

Download this paper (PDF) Created in 2004 with the arrival of the new center-left government of the Workers Party in Brazil, the Social Technology Network (STN) aimed at fostering a…

When grassroots innovation movements encounter mainstream institutions: implications for models of inclusive innovation (Submitted version)

by Mariano Fressoli, Elisa Arond, Dinesh Abrol, Adrian Smith, Adrian Ely and Rafael Dias Submitted to Innovation & Development in 2014 Grassroots Innovation Movements (GIMs) can be regarded as initiators…

Re-significando el fuego: gobernabilidad reflexiva y transformación de conflictos en territorios indígenas culturalmente frágiles

English Version can be found here: https://steps-centre.org/publication/fire-conflic/ STEPS Working Paper June 2013 A pesar del hecho de que hoy día existe una mayor aceptación del uso del fuego en ecosistemas de…

‘Opening up’ fire conflicts: Reflexive governance and transformative knowledge networks in culturally fragile indigenous landscapes

Original Spanish version can be accessed here: https://steps-centre.org/publication/re-significando-el-fuego-gobernabilidad-reflexiva-y-transformacion-de-conflictos-en-territorios-indigenas-culturalmente-fragiles/ Despite the fact that there is much more acceptance today to the use of fire by indigenous people in forests and savannas ecosystems…