Contemporary Production, Innovative Workplaces, and Urban Space: Projects and Policies

Armondi, Simonetta; Vita, S. Di

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“…Some authors mobilize the framework of commons-based peer production and open innovation to look at the experience of the first Makerspaces (Arvidsson et al 2015;Smith et al 2013), eventually stressing their role to act as alternatives to the capitalist economy (Chiappini & Törnberg 2018). Others emphasize the capacity of these spaces to create new urban and regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (Doussard et al 2017;Fiorentino 2018) and to contribute to the rise of new urban economies in the era of digital capitalism (Armondi & Di Vita 2017). These double, contradictory frameworks resonate with the apparent paradox that characterizes the so-called sharing economy, defined either as an alternative to capitalism or as part of a digitalized form of it .…”

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“…On the contrary, scholars in both economic geography and urban studies have recently drawn attention to the spatial dimension of the phenomenon, claiming that the rise of Makers represents an innovation in the production system that entails important socio-spatial transformations too. However, these works generally assume that the most relevant spatial dimension of the phenomenon is constituted by the city, considering Makers as part of a univocal shift in contemporary urban economies in the era of digital capitalism (Armondi & Bruzzese 2017;Armondi & Di Vita 2017;Capdevila 2018). In so doing, they also take for granted the relevance of the phenomenon in terms of its capacity to constitute a shift in contemporary urban economies, usually drawing on a mainstream discourse that portrays Makers as examples of democratization of production and a new way of organizing the innovation process (cf.…”

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Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe: Understanding Sharing and Caring

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“Sharing economy” and “collaborative economy” refer to a proliferation of initiatives, business models, digital platforms and forms of work that characterise contemporary life: from community-led initiatives and activist campaigns, to the impact of global sharing platforms in contexts such as network hospitality, transportation, etc. Sharing the common lens of ethnographic methods, this book presents in-depth examinations of collaborative economy phenomena. The book combines qualitative research and ethnographic methodology with a range of different collaborative economy case studies and topics across Europe. It uniquely offers a truly interdisciplinary approach. It emerges from a unique, long-term, multinational, cross-European collaboration between researchers from various disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, geography, business studies, law, computing, information systems), career stages, and epistemological backgrounds, brought together by a shared research interest in the collaborative economy. This book is a further contribution to the in-depth qualitative understanding of the complexities of the collaborative economy phenomenon. These rich accounts contribute to the painting of a complex landscape that spans several countries and regions, and diverse political, cultural, and organisational backdrops. This book also offers important reflections on the role of ethnographic researchers, and on their stance and outlook, that are of paramount interest across the disciplines involved in collaborative economy research.

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Making Space for the Sharing Economy: Fablab Torino and the Performativity of Democratized Production

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2022

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The spreading of collaborative practices in the production and consumption of goods and services constitutes an unavoidable challenge to researchers aiming at understanding the sociospatial dynamics of economic life. Fablabs in particular are identified as expressions of a new form of material production pivoting on collaboration and democratised innovation. Embracing a recent claim in economic geography for an appreciation of the relevant role of spatial dynamics in organizations (Müller 2015), I argue for an investigation of collaborative workplaces through an ethnographic research of the situated practices involved in the process of organising a Fablab. Drawing on Actor-Network Theory and the ‘performativity programme’ launched by Michel Callon (1998), the chapter argues that collaborative economies could be analysed as the emergent outcome of the interaction between economic theories and heterogeneous socio-technical arrangements through which they are brought into being, showing how economics performs the economy. In order to unpack the contingent, situated, and fragile nature of this process with regards to Fablabs and Makers, the chapter discusses the data from an ethnographic investigation of a Fablab in Turin, Italy, working on two levels. Firstly, it identifies the economic theories involved in the process of performing Fablabs as collaborative and open spaces within contemporary urban economies. Secondly, it shows how sociospatial processes of organizing participate in the enactment of an economy where production and innovation have been ‘democratised’ and where collaboration and sharing are at the core of value production. However, the chapter highlights also how the process of actualization is never stable, resulting sometimes in failures and ‘misfires’ (Callon 2010).

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Contemporary Production, Innovative Workplaces, and Urban Space: Projects and Policies

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Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe: Understanding Sharing and Caring

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