Felipe Schmidt Fonseca

Felipe Schmidt Fonseca
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GIG

I am an experienced Berlin-based Brazilian advocate for social-environmental innovation and free/open-source technologies. I'm finishing a PhD (Northumbria University /  Mozilla Foundation). The title of my thesis successfully defended in September 2023 is "Generous cities – weaving commons-oriented systems for the reuse of excess materials in urban contexts".

I am a co-founder and lead articulator of the Tropixel network and a member of GIG and Circular Berlin. I was a Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow between 2019 and 2022. More recently, I co-created and led other collaborations such as ID21, fonte.wiki, and Semente.

In the last twenty+ years, I was a co-founder and leader of diverse initiatives dedicated to critical thinking (and making) at the intersections between culture, science, technology and society. Some examples are MetaReciclagem, CulturaDigital.BR, Bricolabs, Rede//Labs, Lixo Eletrônico, Ciência Aberta Ubatuba, UbaLab. I was the user community manager of the Subutai Platform and occasional lecturer/panelist/workshop facilitator/teacher/instructor/ on diverse topics.