Blog Series and Articles

Floods Kenya

Nairobi’s Double Disaster: Floods and Forced Evictions

Experiencing the Evictions: A First-Hand Account of Displacement in Mathare Article by...

Fire Nairobi

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

Article by Beatrice Hati Gitundu and Francis Mukiri You might gaze at this image and think...

Norm life cycle

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

By Hubert Schmitz and Peter Knorringa Introduction There is a strong case for making...

Women's hands in a circle

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

On March 8th, International Women’s Day, the world commemorates the embodiment...

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

Article by Geertje Dingemanse-de Wit In classical international economics, there is a...

Photo by Andreas Gücklhorn on Unsplash

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

By Hubert Schmitz and Peter Knorringa Making economic progress sustainable has become the...

Mural from Singapore

A Common AI Future: Perspectives from the Islamic World?

Text by Hans Wetzels What I am mainly interested in, is what technology does to human...

Digital tracing

The Power of Data and Traceability in Informal Waste Management

Solid waste management remains a pervasive challenge within urban spaces worldwide...

Protests DWE Berlin senate

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

Text by Hans Wetzels As in many cities around the world, rents in Berlin have risen...

La Paz cable car

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

Fátima Delgado is an Ecuadorian with an economic/business and sustainable sciences...

Devissues Autumn 2023

Our cities have failed … decolonizing urban planning in the Afrocentric

DEVISSUES; October 2023 Vol. 25 No. 2 Africa is urbanizing at an unprecedented rate...

Brussels Skyline

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

Text by Hans Wetzels Mayors are often lost within the complex institutional universe that...

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?

Recent polls show that trust in government in the Netherlands is at an all-time low, a...

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

This article was written by Malika Ouacha - Lecturer & Researcher, Rotterdam School of...

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Historicising Cities: Unravelling the Threads of Urban Transformation

The first article in the urban series outlined some of the barriers and opportunities...

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?

Most of us feel that the prospects for our future are very uncertain because we are facing...

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Urban heatwaves and senior citizens: Frugal solutions in The Hague

As The Netherlands is currently suffering from extreme heat this summer, it is worth...

Electric stove, by Maciej Toporowicz, NYC

Opportunities For Electric Cooking in Mini-Grids

By Beryl Onjala for Water-Energy Blogs Among the many efforts to establish sustainable and...

Blogpost - Frugal Innovation x Development

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

The third edition of the Minor Frugal Innovation for Sustainable Global Development...

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

COVID-19: Should Europe embrace frugality?

In CFIA's GoFrugal blog series affiliated researchers reflect on the role of frugality and...

Ecosave - cleaning water

An Innovative way to break down waste into a useful resource

In this GoFrugal Research Insights edition, we spotlight a fourth case study of bottom-up...

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

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

In this blog series staff members, students and affiliated researchers of the...

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

How can ICT innovations, in combination with mobile phone ownership, open up new...