OpenDoTT (Open Design of Trusted Things) was "a PhD programme to explore how to build a more open, secure, and trustworthy Internet of Things". I have moved in 2019 to Dundee to work at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, and relocated later to Berlin to work at the Mozilla Foundation. The academic side of the project has migrated from the University of Dundee to Northumbria University in June 2020.
The title of my thesis is Generous cities – weaving commons-oriented systems for the reuse of excess materials in urban contexts.
I am gradually moving relevant documentation to a public wiki. I maintain a list of links with the tag opendott in my infinite bookmark collection.
I have used this blog to document what I read, learnt and discovered as I went deeper into my research. Earlier outputs can be seen in this set of concept ideas(2020) and this repository with second year deliverables (2021).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 813508.
Generous Cities - a summary
Posted on
12th Aug 2024
Felipe Schmidt Fonseca
Berlin, July 2024
Keywords: #generosity #urban #conviviality #reuse #repair #circularity
Initial comment
After the Viva Voce, the examination board required me to apply modifications to the thesis as a condition to awarding the doctoral degree. I agreed with all th...
Abundance and repair
Posted on
17th Feb 2021
Public Abundance is the Secret to the Green New Deal
The same principle need not be limited to food. “Repair cafés” could be places to meet and relax in every neighbourhood, and where you can also learn how to fix appliances and gadgets, mend clothes, or maintain bicycles. Community tool librari...
On repair
Posted on
17th Apr 2020
I'm not a fan of using dictionary entries to define terms, as I believe meaning is built on interaction rather than prescribed by a fixed rule book. That said, I do love etymology, as a sort of social history of words and concepts. And I figured that might come to rescue at this point of my research...
Reparatur Festival 2019
Posted on
7th Oct 2019
After attending the Beyond Smart Cities Today conference in Rotterdam, I boarded a train
to Berlin. I would be participating in the Reparatur Festival, German edition of Fixfest - the festival
originated around the Restart Project originally from London. Coincidentally, the first
day of the ev...
Richard Sennett
Posted on
6th Sep 2019
Sennett's The Craftsman was first recommended to me during the times of TransforMatéria, by at least three different people. I read parts of it then, and eventually got back to it with different lenses trying to define the research questions for my PhD. I found Building and Dwelling while immersin...