Blog Series and Articles

Floods Kenya

Nairobi’s Double Disaster: Floods and Forced Evictions

Fire Nairobi

Fueling the fire or preventing it? How fire ontologies shape (fire) disaster governance in Kenya’s ghettos

Norm life cycle

What can the frugal innovation debate learn from the Norm Life Cycle debate?

Women's hands in a circle

Women's Day Spotlight: A Gender Lens for Frugal Innovation (Chapter)

Device

A Glimpse into How Frugal Innovations could Facilitate Import Substitution in Arba Minch (Ethiopia)

Photo by Andreas Gücklhorn on Unsplash

What can the frugal innovation debate learn from the renewable energy debate?

Mural from Singapore

A Common AI Future: Perspectives from the Islamic World?

Digital tracing

The Power of Data and Traceability in Informal Waste Management

Protests DWE Berlin senate

Building a Tenant Movement: ‘Focus on Goals, not Demonstrations.’

La Paz cable car

Decolonising Urban Futures: Reflections on Right to Reyeroord from the Global South

Devissues Autumn 2023

Our cities have failed … decolonizing urban planning in the Afrocentric

Brussels Skyline

Power Struggle: Are European Mayors Teaming Up to Challenge Their own Governments?

Illustration depicting a group of people collectively declaring "Jongeren aan zet" - it's up to the young people

How Can Local Government Support Citizens’ Right to the City?

Street after the earthquake

Belonging to and longing for the village: how the earthquake in Morocco reveals the importance of the homeland in shaping diaspora identity

Animated abstract cityscape

Historicising Cities: Unravelling the Threads of Urban Transformation

Crises are lurking on several fronts. We have just come through a mega crisis – the Corona pandemic – which disrupted our lives in ways which were unimaginable in 2019. In the course of 2020 and 2021, Governments intervened in drastic ways which we would have thought unacceptable beforehand.

When did it all go wrong?

bron ANP / NOS

Urban heatwaves and senior citizens: Frugal solutions in The Hague

Electric stove, by Maciej Toporowicz, NYC

Opportunities For Electric Cooking in Mini-Grids

Blogpost - Frugal Innovation x Development

Frugal Innovation and Development: insights and experiences from the minor FI4SGD

COVID-19: Should Europe embrace frugality? Saradindu Bhaduri and Peter Knorringa

COVID-19: Should Europe embrace frugality?

Ecosave - cleaning water

An Innovative way to break down waste into a useful resource

ICFI- Frugal Innovation - Elsie Onsongo - Gofrugal Blog covid-19

Frugal Innovation during the COVID-19 crisis: Examples from East Africa

Picture made out of car

Blog: Connectivity, profit and what else? Women entrepreneurs benefiting from ICT innovations