Vasilis Niaros

Short bio

Vasilis (Billy) Niaros is the Project Manager of the P2P Foundation and a Research Fellow at the P2P Lab. His research work is related to commons-oriented urban and regional development with an emphasis on the use of ICT and desktop manufacturing technologies.

Contact: vasilis.niaros at gmail.com

Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

• Niaros, V. (2016). Introducing a taxonomy of the “smart city”: Towards a commons-oriented approach? tripleC: Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 14(1), 51-61.

• 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.

• 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.

Book Chapters

• 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.

Reports

• Bauwens, M., & Niaros, V. (2017). Value in the commons economy: Developments in open and contributory value accounting. Berlin: Heinrich Böll Foundation.

• Bauwens, M., & Niaros, V. (2017, forthcoming). The Emergence of peer production: Challenges and opportunities for labor and unions. Brussels: European Trade Union Institute.

• De Filippi, P., Loveluck, B., Niaros, V., Pantazis, A., & Fuster, M. (2016). Best practices for CBPP communities & policy recommendations. P2P Value.

• Pazaitis, A., Niaros, V., Dittus, M., & Fuster, M. (2016). Validation experiments: Research reports on validation experiments description and analysis. P2P Value.

Working papers

• Niaros, V., Kostakis, V., & Drechsler, W. (2017). Making and sharing (in) the smart city: The emergence of makerspaces. Telematics & Informatics, xx(xx), xx-xx.

• Niaros, V., & Bauwens, M. (2017). Re-dynamising local economies in the age of Trumpism. Journal of Future Studies, xx(xx), xx-xx.

See Greece.