Vasilis Niaros

Vasilis Niaros is an engineer/urbanist and a PhD candidate at the Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology. His research interests include open source technologies, "smart city", interactive urban spaces and do-it-yourself culture. Contact: vasilis.niaros at gmail.com

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Kostakis, V., Niaros, V. & Bauwens, M. (2015, forthcoming). Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model. Futures

• 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., & Giotitsas, C. (2015). Open source 3D printing as a means of learning: Two cases from 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 papers

• Niaros, V. Socio-environmental aspects of the “smart city”: Shedding light on a commons-oriented approach.

See Greece.