Felipe Schmidt Fonseca

Last month I had a public conversation with Ed King (University of Bristol) at the Knowle West Media Centre. It was part of an event titled “What if...? Seeds of tomorrow growing today”. (photo by Ibi Feher) The session was streamed live. More: buff.ly/4hKRvF2

It's been over a year since I defended my thesis, or as it's called there, had my 'viva voce'. Some months later I would submit a final version, with great improvements suggested by the examiners. And on May 1st this year, I received by email confirmation of the PhD degree.

After my Viva Voce, the examination board required me to apply modifications to my thesis as a condition to awarding the doctoral degree. I agreed with all the recommendations, as they would make the thesis more robust and clear.

My trip to New York City in early July was truly inspiring. Since then, I tried a few times to write a short post about it. I failed on the "short" part. There is simply so much to say about open source and society that I wrote a longer text: buff.ly/4bX5DqM

I'm in Campinas this week for #ESOCITE, a conference on STS in Latin America. Yesterday I presented the reuse.city co-design lab, part of my PhD research. It's gratifying to be back at UNICAMP, where I got my Master's Degree ten years ago.

This week I received my hard copy of the book Driving Design Volume 2, edited by the @distributeddesign platform. I'm honoured to have a version of my text about the semente toolkit, “Seeds of Digital Reforestation”, included as a chapter.

My thesis will eventually be posted online. Honestly, though, I'm still making my peace with it and not rushing to have more people reading that long text that took cost me so much to research and write.

Next month I'll be in NY to attend the "OSPOS For Good" Symposium at the UN Headquarters: buff.ly/3XnHdD1

Recording of the panel during re-publica 24. In the first 30 min or so there is an interview (in German) with the Minister of Environment. The second half is our panel. buff.ly/3z1PFhl

13. – at Berlin, Germany

Tropixel Sementes essa semana... sementes.tropixel.org

Tropixel Sementes, 28-31 de Julho na sede do coletivo Neos, em Ubatuba. Bora?

is.efeefe.me/opendott/antico… (sorry for reposting - I had a minor situation with hosting and certs, some people couldn't read it yesterday)

This evening in Berlin: my first non-screen-mediated talk since 2020! urbanhosts.org/when-where/ Cc @TeresaHacks

O meu tá na fila. Cc @DavidNemer