Open Education at fOSSa conference
Last week I had the pleasure to participate in the free/open source software in academia (fOSSa) conference organised by the French INRIA. The topics of the conference covered from Open Education to...
View ArticleThe Right to Repair
I have always thought that repairing a broken product is better than throwing it away, even though quite a few products are designed in ways that don't help or directly encourage not to repair. In...
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The Commons Law Perspective, Open Hardware and Digital DIY
On October 1st I had an interview with David Bollier. Given his decade long work on the commons, as researcher and activist, author of books like Viral Spiral and in particular his work on Laws and the...
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The Things Network: 4x Commons for the Internet of Things
The Things Network is an initiative to build a distributed wireless data network for connecting "things" to the net, fully owned and controlled by its users. The Internet of Things (IoT) typically...
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Now is LoRa: Building the Smart City bottom up
On Monday 16 November we organised a panel discussion about The Things Network and LoRaWAN in FabLab Barcelona (in Catalan, in English). We aimed to look at this from a commons perspective, which is...
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Sustainable Fabrication
On March 7th I was invited to present my vision on sustainable fabrication in a course cycle organised by the cooperative Tarpuna and the Ateneus de Fabricació in Barcelona. The course cycle was...
View ArticleDigital Commons at the IASC Regional European Conference in Bern
last week I had the pleasure to participate in the Regional European Conference in Bern, Switzerland, organised by the International Association of the Commons, the IASC. The main theme was "GLOBAL...
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An accidental millionaire by BitCoin
About cryptocurrencies and the evolution to a global social means of exchangeBitcoin Bonanza: Cyprus Crisis Boosts Digital Dollars (CNBC) and other news items would suggest the Cypriotic bank crisis...
View ArticleDigital Do It Yourself (DiDIY)
The FKI helped co-develop a research project on the impact of “Digital DIY”, which was selected for funding by the EC. In January 2015 we started the project lead by Luca Mari from Università Carlo...
View ArticleSelected Readings on Digital DIY
General introductions about digital fabrication technologies and how our societies are changing right now and in the foreseeable future:Neil Gershenfeld (2005). FAB. The Coming Revolution On Your...
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