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Ignore the futuristic visions of governments and developers, it’s humble urban communities who lead the way in showing how networked technologies can strengthen a city’s social fabric

How General Electric, Local Motors, and an army of DIY inventors are rebuilding American manufacturing

"Knowledge as a common good: communities of production and sharing in Greece” is a low-budget, but high-insight survey of innovative projects.

The IKEA hackers have been busy. Those creative DIY souls take love of all things IKEA to another level, and now, even one step further with the inclusion of 3D printing into a number of projects...

The world of industrial design or, at least, increasingly larger sectors of it, is falling more and more in line with the green imperative these days.

Floating Ecosystems and project management for waterway restoration & wastewater treatment. View the range of Floating Islands & Floating Riverbanks.

In this interview, guest editor Adam Werbach talks with Eric Lowitt, author of the forthcoming book, The Collaboration Economy. As Lowitt explains, the collaboration economy describes a situation in...

In the future, the economy and society will re-orient itself around collaborative commons, with a more peripheric role for the market dynamics.

for ljubljana's biennial, BIO 50, the 'hacking households' design team has developed a unitized and cyclical system for electronic domestic appliances.

Using a DIY management strategy pulled from the open-source world, GitHub has built a product that coders everywhere love. But can it actually work...

Piped water may be the greatest convenience ever known, but Lloyd Alter argues that our sewage systems and bathrooms are a disaster

Mr Beam is an open source DIY laser cutter and engraver kit for paper, wood, plastic and other materials. It’s fun and easy to use.

Teacher Appreciation Week snuck up on me a little this year. But that's ok! We are making do. Today is a DIY for a lavender body sugar scrub, but depending on what essential oils you have on hand, it...

This instructable is for making an electric coffee maker. Nearly all components are from readymade diy parts & materials, so if any part ever breaks, you can repair or replace it. The parts from the...

Magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will.