This is an extract from a Delicious set of bookmarks set up for the Emerging Sustainability Group.  Delicious allows group libraries and for people to add references.

The library can be found online here:

http://www.delicious.com/emerging_sustainability

• Self Made Urbanity

  Research on Contemporary Informal Settlements in Europe

• RHYZOM

  "RHYZOM will map emerging cultural productions related to local contexts (ie. eco-cultures, minorities’ skills and alternative economies, traditional practices and cultures of resilience, rural/urban exchanges), aiming to reinforcing them through an European interdisciplinary network which constitutes a cultural collaborative platform for reciprocal empowerment and trans-local dissemination."

• Open Architecture Network

  The Open Architecture Network is an online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.

• LA CASA INVISIBLE

  an experiment of self-organization in the cultural and cognitive production.

• FreeNetworks.org

• DIYcity

  "What is needed right now is a new type of city: a city that is like the Internet in its openness, participation, distributed nature and rapid, organic evolution - a city that is not centrally operated, but that is created, operated and improved upon by all - a DIY City."

• autonomous construction - metropolitan stories and narratives SAVE

  "Under the title of Autonomous Construction and as a working, we have launched an Internet site which brings together various stories of the Barcelona metropolis in the form of an open mapping. They constitute tales that are under construction that span from the personal to the collective, from the historic to the singular. It concerns research in progress that puts itself forward as a common setting for different initiatives, documents, communities and collaborative projects."

• Actions: What you can do with the city

  "Actions: What You Can Do With the City presents 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world."

• networked cultures

  "Networked Cultures investigates the cultural transformations under way in Europe through examining the potentials and effects of networked spatial practices. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London, the project collaborates with art, architectural and urban practices across Europe and beyond to look at ways in which contested spaces allow for a multi- inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographic boundaries. Sites of alternative urban engagement are collected on a database and will be presented in a variety of formats, including exhibitions, films and books."

• The Emergence Project

  The Emergence Project is a software art installation exhibited at Hyde Park Art Center’s digital facade gallery from October 11 until December 31, 2008. The piece investigates how complex patterns arise out of a series of simple interactions, without apparent direction or plan.

• Emerging Sustainability Collaborative Portal

  complexity and emergence, emerging sustainability, the built environment, health, learning and education, transition towns, regeneration, urban water systems, the open source research methodology.