Vasilis Niaros

Vasilis Niaros is an urbanist, regional planner and engineer as well as PhD candidate (expected in early 2016) at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. His research interests include open source technologies, "smart city", makerspaces and do-it-yourself culture. He is also research fellow and project manager at the P2P Lab, a community-­driven research hub and makerspace interested in interdisciplinary research on free/open source technologies and practice. Contact: vasilis.niaros at gmail.com

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Kostakis, V., Niaros, V., & Giotitsas, C. (2015). Production and governance in hackerspaces: A manifestation of commons-based peer production in the physical realm?. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(5), 555-573.

• Niaros, V. (2015). Introducing a taxonomy of the “smart city”: Towards a commons-oriented approach? TripleC (forthcoming).

• Kostakis, V., Niaros, V., Dafermos, G. & Bauwens, M. (2015). Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model. Futures, 73, 126-135.

• Kostakis, V., Niaros, V., & Giotitsas, C. (2015). Open source 3D printing as a means of learning: An educational experiment in two high schools in Greece. Telematics & Informatics, 32 (1), 118–128.

• Kostakis, V., Bauwens, M., & Niaros, V. (2015). Urban reconfiguration after the emergence of peer-to-peer infrastructures: Four future scenarios with an impact on smart cities. In D. Araya (Ed.), Smart cities as democratic ecologies(pp. 116-124). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Working paper

• Making (in) the smart city: Urban makerspaces for commons-based peer production in innovation, education, and community-building.

See Greece.