Critical Technical Practice in Grassroots Innovation: Proposals of Change through Indonesian Collective...

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Regina Sipos

Critical Technical Practice in Grassroots Innovation

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Proposals of Change through Indonesian Collective Intrinsic Design

Regina Sipos

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English

Springer VS
31 October 2025

Development studies; Archaeology; Society & culture: general

This book extends the term Critical Making to the critical technical practices of grassroots innovation communities in the Global South, specifically in Indonesia. Recent socio-technical shifts in an era of participation have led to the rapid growth in the number of makerspaces and the revival of open-source movements. These promise to improve the technological capabilities of everyday citizens and democratize innovation. With academia's growing interest in grassroots approaches to democratic design experiments, the book explores how communities engage with intrinsic design and infrastructuring to address local, place-based challenges through technology development and appropriation. It records how innovation emerges from the ground up and results in self-directed, sustainable change and investigates critical technical practices and related sociotechnical imaginaries to uncover techno-solutionist promises and the ideological colonialism of technological development. It focuses on autonomous, intrinsic grassroots design processes, as this shift of perspective from participatory to intrinsic design allows researchers to better understand critical-material practices previously neglected by academia.

By: Regina Sipos
Imprint: Springer VS
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
ISBN: 9783658496944
ISBN 10: 3658496940
Pages: 283
Publication Date: 31 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction, Research Questions and Prospectus.- The State of Critical Making.- Methodological Tools and Theoretical Arguments.- Research Methodology and Analytical Framework.- In the Field: Grassroots Critical Making.- Cross-Case Analysis and Discussion.

Dr. Regina Sipos works at the Technical University of Munich, Chair of Design and Transdisciplinarity. Her research is at the intersection of technology and society, focusing on critical making, participatory practices, transition design, and transdisciplinary collaborations.