Design studio expanding on my PhD research and my background on repair, reuse and material transformation.
Open-ended research and experimentation on materiality, regeneration, tactics, openness, and futures.
Free mentoring for community-based projects (since 2023).
Interactive toolkit for community-based initiatives (2022-). Project supported by the University of Bristol.
Brazil-based network on arts, science, technology and society (since 2013 as a festival, reactivated as ongoing online group in 2020).
Posted on 10th Dec 2024
Future Beyond Repair ("FBR") is an independent research journal about materiality, regeneration, tactics, openness, and futures. I set up FBR in November 2024 as a subsection of my website, with an initial collection of recent texts. It was created to hold space for reconnecting with and goin...
Posted on 18th Nov 2024
During two weeks in 2014, I was a Designer in Residence at the Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar, in Doha. The invitation came in the context of a "Brazil-Qatar Culture year" connected to the FIFA Football World Cups. And that was not the weirdest part. It was a relatively short immersion that...
Posted on 23rd Sep 2024
A short note (September 2024): I started writing this text around June 2024 as I prepared to participate on an event about open source. Since time is not always linear, it took me longer to finish this one than to write a narrower report of the event and my reflections about it. If you read that...
Posted on 29th Aug 2024
Berlin, August 2024 Felipe Schmidt Fonseca https://reuse.city | https://efeefe.me The world is full of things. Many of those things were made by humans, using materials sourced ultimately from nature. But such materials won’t always return gracefully to where they came from. The process...
Posted on 28th Jul 2024
I was recently in New York City, for two combined events about “open source”. Even typing these words right now makes me quite conscious of how this may sound somehow anachronistic these days. Not that (free and) open source software is not present in virtually everyone's lives in one way or the oth...
Posted on 2nd Nov 2023
Update: the current version of this text was included as a chapter of Driving Design II, published by the Distributed Design Plaform. That version is available as a free PDF from their website, but there are some minor errors. I corrected them and made an edited PDF available here (13,4 Mb...
Posted on 11th Jul 2023
As part of the CODE programme led by Impakt, I have collaborated with Rebekka Jochem to conduct research and create artworks investigating the impact of maps in contemporary life, labour and cities. The collaboration generated a mobile audioguide and a physical installation. This piece d...
Posted on 18th Apr 2023
I collaborated with a group of brilliant researchers and practitioners conducting a "deep dive" study about the expansion of distributed manufacturing in the Global South commissioned by the UK's Frontier Tech Hub. This endeavor generated valuable insights into this crucial domain and allowed us t...
Posted on 13th Sep 2021
Para boa parte das iniciativas brasileiras de referência sobre o uso de tecnologias digitais em comunidades, a expressão inclusão digital é incompleta e pode levar a distorções. Ainda assim, é um campo que possui relevância institucional e social, como espaço importante de engajamento e visibilida...