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Tomorrow Today Streets, Creating essential micro-infrastructure for post Covid 19 neighbourhoods, TessyBritton, May 30 [1] ... Barking and Dagenham

2020

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 [2] ...Community resources UK

Canada’s libraries step up to help vulnerable people during pandemic, Apr 22 [3]

We don’t need institutes, we need constitutes… and they should live in a Makar House, Pat Kane, Mar 16 [4] ...Scotland news

2019

Library of Things is helping UK go zero waste, Nov 29 [5] ...Community resources UK

Cross-sector ‘third spaces’ incubate social, climate solutions, Oct 9 [6]

"Play Out Til Tea" is a great Birmingham Impact Hub idea - but their "neighbourhood of the future" is even better, Jul 21 [7]

The library of things: could borrowing everything from drills to disco balls cut waste and save money? Apr 24 [8] ...Oxfordshire

2018

Empowering Canada's Indigenous communities through coworking, Nov 12 [9]

Strengthening and protecting what matters most by @CassieRobinson, Nov 2 [10] ...Commons

Creating the everyday commons: The need to consider space in sharing initiatives, Nov 1 [11]

If our every click boosts the profits of Big Tech, how should the people and communities benefit? UBI? UBA? Small Tech? Oct 19 [12] ...Towards sustainable economies news

The Common Room — designing a future for all ages, Oct 2 [13] ...Social inclusion UK

Why 'Social Infrastructure' Is the Key to Renewing Civil Society, Sep 11 [14] ...United States

To Restore Civil Society, Start With the Library, Sep 8 [15]

Britain’s shared spaces are vanishing, leaving us a nation of cliques, John Harris, Sep 4 [16] ...Community resources UK

Fab Labs supports local entrepreneurship with open-source and peer-to-peer production, Feb 8 [17]

Why Smart City London should be a #NetworkedCity: participatory, sharing, inclusive and accessible, Feb 9 [18]

In Vancouver, Shipping Containers are the New Tool Libraries, Jan 10 [19]

2017

Inside Fab Lab Barcelona and the IAAC: 3D printing for the people, Oct 5 [20]

8 Lessons from the Second Annual International Lending Library Symposium, Jun 27 [21]

Craftsman donates his tools - and himself, Apr 23 [22] ...Minnesota

5 reasons why there's more to coworking spaces than just work, Apr 5 [23]

Cities Are Driving a Public Library Boom in Australia, Apr 4 [24]

5 Coworking Spaces and Business Incubators in Libraries That Support Local Workers, Apr 3 [25]

Quebec's Vacant Church Buildings Resurrected as Community Spaces, Mar 14 [26]

Little Free Library Launches 'Action Book Club' to Inspire Community Service, Mar 2 [27]

Why Nonpartisan PAC EveryLibrary Defends the Future of Libraries, Feb 30 [28] ...US news

The original heart of Memphis, Feb 17 [29] ...Tennessee

How to Welcome and Engage People in Community Spaces, Jan 10 [30]

2016

Patterns of Commoning: A Journey Through Time to the Irrigation System in Valais, Switzerland, Dec 16 [31]

How Libraries are Boldly Innovating to Meet the Needs of Changing Communities, Nov 16 [32]

Habibi.Works is a FabLab equipped with all the tools for people to unfold their potential and hone their abilities, Oct 31 [33]

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Building Community Resilience from the Ground Up, Nov 10 [34]

“Introducing the Global Atlas of Innovation Spaces” by Ananse Group, Oct 7 [35]

Creative Commons' Radical Plan to Bring Joy to the Commons, Mar 23 [36]

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2015

“Makerspace: Towards a New Civic Infrastructure,” Will Holman, November [37]

Doing more together, together: seeding a Collaborative Technology Alliance, November 24 [38]

Imagining the (R)Urban Commons in 2040, November 12, von Silke Helfrich [39]

Why hardware needs to go open source, October 17 [40]

2014

How a New Dutch Library Smashed Attendance Records, Jul 21 [41]

2013

Libraries and community engagement, Jan 25 [42]

See also

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References

  1. ↑ medium.com
  2. ↑ thealternative.org.uk
  3. ↑ @shareable
  4. ↑ thealternative.org.uk
  5. ↑ Library of Things press release, Nov 28, 2019
  6. ↑ Shareable
  7. ↑ The Alternative UK
  8. ↑ The Guardian
  9. ↑ Shareable
  10. ↑ Medium
  11. ↑ Shareable
  12. ↑ The Alternative UK
  13. ↑ @agenoretirement
  14. ↑ citylab.com
  15. ↑ The New York Times
  16. ↑ The Guardian
  17. ↑ @Shareable
  18. ↑ connectinglondoners.blog
  19. ↑ resilience.org
  20. ↑ 3dprintingindustry.com
  21. ↑ @Shareable
  22. ↑ kare11.com
  23. ↑ treehugger.com
  24. ↑ nextcity.org
  25. ↑ @Shareable
  26. ↑ Shareable
  27. ↑ @Shareable
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  29. ↑ civiccommons.us
  30. ↑ @Shareable
  31. ↑ blog.p2pfoundation.net
  32. ↑ @Shareable
  33. ↑ blog.p2pfoundation.net
  34. ↑ sustainablecitiescollective.com
  35. ↑ medium.com
  36. ↑ Shareable
  37. ↑ Places Journal
  38. ↑ blog.p2pfoundation.net
  39. ↑ CommonsBlog
  40. ↑ Wired UK
  41. ↑ @Shareable
  42. ↑ sustainingcommunity.wordpress.com
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