Alternative futures “in the making”: Insights from three makerspaces in peripheral Greece

Alternative features “in the making”: Insights from three makerspaces in peripheral Greece Danai Liodaki Abstract: The great environmental and social challenges of recent decades have questioned the hegemony of growth-oriented development and its objectives. Those critiques reexamined growth-based policies and strategies, leading to ‘alternative development’ pathways, the most prominent being sustainable development. Nevertheless, critical scholars […]

Is making alternative? Rethinking development in Germany’s makerspaces.

Is making alternative? Rethinking development in Germany’s makerspaces. Danai Liodaki Abstract: This paper explores the ideological backgrounds, normative motivations, and the degrees of alterity among makerspaces in Germany. It does so by connecting the question of alterity to discussions on development, and exploring to what extent and in which ways makerspaces aim to challenge the […]

Theorizing Multiple Geographies: Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research

Theorizing Multiple Geographies: Interrelations of Space and Multiplicity in Geographical Research Danai Liodaki Abstract: Starting from the observation that the notion of “multiple geographies” has gained considerable traction in geographical research in the past years while its theoretical foundations have often remained abstract, in this paper we contribute toward elaboration of multiple geographies as a research […]

CORAL-ITN Podcasts Series

Episode 1. Labour, precariousness and gender imbalances in collaborative workspaces in rural Greece and Austria.

Valuation in Rural Social Innovation Processes—Analysing Micro-Impact of a Collaborative Community in Southern Italy

Valuation in Rural Social Innovation Processes – Analysing Micro-Impact of a Collaborative Community in Southern Italy Federica Ammaturo & Suntje Schmidt Abstract: Social innovation has been associated with contributing to ‘valuable’ rural development; however, usually, the impact of social innovation has been identified in the aftermath of its development or implementation. This might be too […]

Transforming the Creative and Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: The Broker Roles of Rural Collaborative Workspaces

Transforming the Creative and Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: The Broker Roles of Rural Collaborative Workspaces Chen Gao  & Eleonora Psenner Abstract: Creative social enterprises are increasingly emerging in rural regions, motivated by a desire to take social responsibility through creative approaches. These enterprises integrate entrepreneurial activities with creative social attributes and are sometimes set in rural […]