My Stuff
A carrier bag filled with ideas, reflections, musings, and works. See also a list of my lectures, talks and presentations and an ever-growing link collection.
Posted on 29th Apr 2025
Future Beyond Repair ("FBR") is an independent research notebook 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 goi...
Posted on 13th Mar 2025
Paper submitted to the Livable Cities Conference and included in the ebook Resilient Cities in a Changing World (ISBN 978-1-0369-0933-8). It's basically a summary of the core points of my PhD research at Nortumbria. Author: FELIPE SCHMIDT FONSECA Affiliation: NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY, UK...
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...
Posted on 15th Oct 2019
Chapter of the book Contextualizing Openness: Situating Open Science, edited by Leslie Chan, Angela Okune, Rebecca Hillyer, Denisse Albornoz, and Alejandro Posada. The chapter is an outcome of the Ciencia Aberta Ubatuba project. Authors: Sarita Albagli, Henrique Parra, Felipe Fonseca, and Maria...
Posted on 25th Jul 2018
On a fine afternoon of June, I was interviewed for the Restart Podcast. The conversation covered a number of subjects - from my background in the MetaReciclagem project to the social meaning of Gambiarra, as well as brazilian politics now and fifteen years ago. I believe we talked for more than one...
Posted on 15th Jun 2018
The paper presents a critical analysis of the possibilities and limits of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, proposed by Elinor Ostrom and researchers from Indiana School, specially addressing the mutual relations between natural and knowledge commons. It is based on the r...
Posted on 19th Oct 2017
Walking. Headphones connected to the screenie. Not surpringly, I listen to Code 46's soundtrack. The heat is mild, the sun has set a few hours ago. I cross avenues of smooth tarmac and fast cars, exploring mentally the map that I avoid consulting in my pocket. Some families stroll through the park t...
Posted on 13th Jun 2017
REDE//LABS is the umbrella containing a series of projects I have developed between 2009 and 2017, with a focus on laboratories and experimental digital culture. Documentation about REDE//LABS can be found below: An open research blog (active until 2017) co-edited with Luciana Fleischman. A...