Making futures : marginal notes on innovation, design, and democracy / edited by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M. Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue / by Laura Watts, Pelle Ehn, and Lucy Suchman -- Introduction / Pelle Ehn, Elisabet M. Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard -- Designing conditions for the social -- Designing conditions for the social / Anders Emilson -- Designing in the neighborhood: beyond (and in the shadow of) creative communities / Anders Emilson, Per-Anders Hillgren, and Anna Seravalli -- Connecting with the powerful strangers: from governance to agonistic design things / Anders Emilson and Per-Anders Hillgren -- Opening production: design and commons / Sanna Marttila, Elisabet M. Nilsson, and Anna Seravalli -- While waiting for the third industrial revolution: attempts at commoning production / Anna Seravalli -- Playing with fire: collaborating through digital sketching in a creative community / Mads Hobye -- How deep is your love? On open-source hardware / David Cuartielles -- Creative class struggles / Er

This book describes experiments in innovation, design, and democracy, undertaken largely by grassroots organizations, non-governmental organizations, and multi-ethnic working-class neighborhoods. These stories challenge the dominant perception of what constitutes successful innovations. They recount efforts at social innovation, opening the production process, challenging the creative class, and expanding the public sphere. The cases considered include a collective of immigrant women who perform collaborative services, the development of an open-hardware movement, grassroots journalism, and hip-hop performances on city buses. They point to the possibility of democratized innovation that goes beyond solo entrepreneurship and crowdsourcing in the service of corporations to include multiple futures imagined and made locally by often-marginalized publics.