Published in the Geneva Forum Proceedings, Volume 1, 2025 Edition.
By Regina Sipos, Barbara Kieslinger, Melanie Stilz
This paper introduces the Critical Making Consortium, a Europe-based consortium that aims to study responsible research and innovation principles in offline and online maker communities. It introduces the concept of Grassroots Innovation Movements (GIM), which include hacker and maker communities, and outlines their potential for societal impact, which can be analyzed through the lens of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). The paper then offers a brief outline of the term critical making and how it relates to and can be grounded in grassroots innovation practices. Against this background, the paper portrays the project itself. First, the project’s overarching research questions and goals are described. Second, a framework for analysis combining GIM, RRI and responsible making principles is proposed. Third, participatory case actions on gender, youth and openness are outlined and finally, the consortium members are presented.
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Authorship:
Corresponding author:
Regina Sipos, Technical University of Berlin, sipos@tu-berlin.de
Barbara Kieslinger, Centre for Social Innovation – ZSI, Vienna, Austria
Melanie Stilz, Technical University of Berlin, melanie.stilz@tu-berlin.de
Introduction
Academic attention on Grassroots Innovation Movements (GIM) has been increasing in recent years, fuelled by the “era of participation” (Smith et al., 2016). Interest in makerspaces as spaces of bottom-up innovation has been growing, together with imaginaries around the possibilities of the maker movement. Bringing about a new industrial revolution (Anderson, 2012), democratizing innovation and technology by empowering the consumer (Tanenbaum et al., 2013) to make their own products through prosumerism (Paltrinieri and Esposti 2013). Maker communities have been celebrated for potential and far-reaching impacts, be those social (Unterfrauner et al., 2020, Bosse et al., 2019), politic
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