Vasilis Niaros

Vasilis Niaros is an engineer/urbanist and a PhD student at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. His research interests include open source technologies, interactive urban spaces and do-it-yourself culture. He is a research fellow at the P2P Lab and the co-ordinator of the project "Revitalizing urban public space using open source technologies". Contact: vasilis.niaros at gmail.com

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Kostakis, V., Niaros, V., and Giotitsas, C. (2014). Production and governance in hackerspaces: A manifestation of Commons-based peer production in the physical realm?. International Journal of Cultural Studies. doi: 10.1177/1367877913519310.

• Kostakis, V.; Niaros, V., and Giotitsas, C. (2014). Open source 3D printing as a means of learning: Two cases from Greece. Telematics & Informatics 32 (1): 118–128. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2014.05.001.

• Kostakis, V., Bauwens, M. and Niaros, V. (forthcoming). “Urban reconfiguration after the emergence of peer-to-peer infrastructures: Four future scenarios with an impact on smart cities”. In Araya, D. (Ed.). Smart cities as democratic ecologies. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Working papers

• Niaros, V. and Drechsler, W. (2015). Commoning the "smart city".

• Kostakis, V., Niaros, V. and Bauwens, M. (2015). A techno-economic contribution to the resilient communities and the degrowth movements: Design global, manufacture local.

See Greece.