Community resources news/2013-2021

Cities should be for experiment - Hamburg putting digitality at the service of citizens, Oct 4, 2021...The Daily Alternative

• Tomorrow Today Streets, Creating essential micro-infrastructure for post Covid 19 neighbourhoods, TessyBritton, May 30, 2021...medium.com
• Who can be trusted to develop us? Yes, we the people. But local Trusts have been strengthening communities for decades. Covid-19 shows it's their time, May 10, 2021...thealternative.org.uk
• Canada’s libraries step up to help vulnerable people during pandemic, Apr 22, 2021...@shareable
• We don’t need institutes, we need constitutes… and they should live in a Makar House, Pat Kane, Mar 16, 2021...thealternative.org.uk

• Library of Things is helping UK go zero waste, Nov 29^[1]
• Cross-sector ‘third spaces’ incubate social, climate solutions, Oct 9^[2]

"Play Out Til Tea" is a great Birmingham Impact Hub idea - but their "neighbourhood of the future" is even better, Jul 21^[3]

• The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money? Apr 24^[4]

References

• Empowering Canada's Indigenous communities through coworking, Nov 12, 2018^[1]
• Strengthening and protecting what matters most by @CassieRobinson, Nov 2, 2018^[2]
• Creating the everyday commons: The need to consider space in sharing initiatives, Nov 1, 2018^[3]
• If our every click boosts the profits of Big Tech, how should the people and communities benefit? UBI? UBA? Small Tech? Oct 19, 2018^[4]
• The Common Room — designing a future for all ages, Oct 2, 2018^[5]

Why 'Social Infrastructure' Is the Key to Renewing Civil Society, Sep 11^[6]

• To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library, Sep 8^[7]
• Britain’s shared spaces are vanishing, leaving us a nation of cliques, John Harris, Sep 4^[8]
• Fab Labs supports local entrepreneurship with open-source and peer-to-peer production, Feb 8^[9]
• Why Smart City London should be a #NetworkedCity: participatory, sharing, inclusive and accessible, Feb 9^[10]
• In Vancouver, Shipping Containers are the New Tool Libraries, Jan 10^[11]

References

Inside Fab Lab Barcelona and the IAAC: 3D printing for the people, Oct 5^[1]

• 8 Lessons from the Second Annual International Lending Library Symposium, Jun 27^[2]
• Craftsman donates his tools - and himself, Apr 23 Minnesota
• 5 reasons why there's more to coworking spaces than just work, Apr 5^[3]

Cities Are Driving a Public Library Boom in Australia, Apr 4^[4]

• 5 Coworking Spaces and Business Incubators in Libraries That Support Local Workers, Apr 3^[5]
• Quebec's Vacant Church Buildings Resurrected as Community Spaces, Mar 14^[6]

Little Free Library Launches 'Action Book Club' to Inspire Community Service, Mar 2^[7]

• Why Nonpartisan PAC EveryLibrary Defends the Future of Libraries, Feb 30^[8]
• The original heart of Memphis, Feb 17^[9]
• How to Welcome and Engage People in Community Spaces, Jan 10^[10]

References

• Patterns of Commoning: A Journey Through Time to the Irrigation System in Valais, Switzerland, Dec 16, 2016...^[1]
• How Libraries are Boldly Innovating to Meet the Needs of Changing Communities, Nov 16, 2016...^[2]
• Building Community Resilience from the Ground Up, Nov 10, 2016...^[3]
• Habibi.Works is a FabLab equipped with all the tools for people to unfold their potential and hone their abilities, Oct 31^[4]
• “Introducing the Global Atlas of Innovation Spaces” by Ananse Group, Oct 7^[5]
• Creative Commons' Radical Plan to Bring Joy to the Commons, Mar 23^[6]

References

• “Makerspace: Towards a New Civic Infrastructure,” Will Holman, November, 2015...^[1]
• Doing more together, together: seeding a Collaborative Technology Alliance, November 24, 2015...^[2]
• Imagining the (R)Urban Commons in 2040, November 12, 2015, von Silke Helfrich...^[3]
• Why hardware needs to go open source, October 17, 2015...^[4]
• How a New Dutch Library Smashed Attendance Records, Jul 21, 2014...^[5]
  
• Libraries and community engagement, Jan 25, 2013...^[6]

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