Open Source Circular Economy Days in Barcelona
Here are Wouter’s slides for the 2016 OSCE days in Barcelona.
FKI assembles Legal Advisory Board to support the DiDIY Project
One of the research tracks of the Digital DIY (DiDIY) Project is the one (Work Package 6) on DiDIY Legal Issues, Rights and Responsibilities. We are happy to announce that, in order to assist us in that activity, the DiDIY … Continued
Open Source Circular Economy Days
The OSCE Days have evolved in a powerful worldwide event, this year taking polace in more than 70 cities on all continents. The concept is powerful in that it reaches out to various different communities, strengthening relationships, understanding and forstering … Continued
Digital 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 CONNECTIONS AND LOCAL RESPONSES”, an adequate theme for many … Continued
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 focused on sustainable and social fabrication, citizen … Continued
Commons Collaborative Economy
The last days we celebrated the Commons Collaborative Economies conference in Barcelona, from 11-13 March 2016. An intense and fruitful experience, which the FKI helped co-organise as part of the Barcelona Col·labora working group with the City Council. Let’s review … Continued
Now is LoRa: Building the Smart City bottom up
On Monday 16 November a panel discussion about The Things Network (TTN) and LoRaWAN was organised in FabLab Barcelona. The aim was to look at TTN from a commons perspective, a standpoint often missed in the Internet of Things industry, … Continued
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 consists of electronic devices with sensors and actuators … Continued
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 Commons, I thought … Continued
The 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 general, repairing is good for … Continued