Studies of Commons

Tomislav Medak leads the theoretical program and publishing activities of the Multimedia Institute / MAMA in Zagreb. He is a defender of free software and free culture, and in recent years through the work on the project Memory of the World / Public Library deals with the issues regarding knowledge accessibility, the limited role of public libraries in the digital environment and "libraries in the shadows”.He is also author and performer with the Zagreb theater collective BADco.

http://www.mi2.hr/

Panayotis Antoniadis is co-founder of non for profit organizations nethood.org. His professional experience includes a combination of design and development of distributed systems (Computer Science Department, University of Crete), as well as a Ph.D on the subject of economics peer-to-peer networks (Athens University of Economics and Business), and post-doc on the subject of politics for the federalisation of shared virtual infrastructure (UPMC Sorbonne Universites), and interdisciplinary research of the IC + technologies role in bridging the virtual and physical spaces in cities (ETH Zurich). Currently he is active in organization of various interdisciplinary event which aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and activists from various fields over the participatory design issue of hybrid urban spaces with a focus on wireless and peer-to-peer technology.

www.nethood.org

Ileana Apostol (PhD in Urban Planning, University of Southern California) is a spacious production researcher in the information age, and co-founder of the non-profit organization nethood.org based in Zurich. With the aim to give citizens the right of a hybrid city, she collaborates with interdisciplinary teams, proposing different forms of urban research and design pedagogy inspired by the spatial production theory of Lefebvre. Before fully dedicating to research, Ileana has taught urban planning and design at the Polytechnic University in California, the University of Southern California and the University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest.

www.nethood.org

Theodoros Karyotis is an independent researcher, translator and social activist. He is a sociologist and social anthropologist, and is active in grassroot movements that are related to direct democracy, solidarity economics and self-management of the commons. He translated a large number of relevant books and articles, and regularly publishes at roarmag.org in English and diagonalperiodico.net in Spanish. He is a coordinator at workerscontrol.net multilingual portal for workers' self-management, and a member of the organizing committee of Euro-Mediterranean Forum "Labour Economics" and the advisory Council of the Transnational Institute for Social Ecology.

http://trise.org/

Felipe Duarte is a multilateral creator, with experience in the fields of art, activism and entrepreneurship. While rejecting formal education, grants, and all the institutional relationships early in his career, Felipe devoted to his interests with passion. Some of his achievements include the methodology development of painting as a teaching, participatory project that involved thousands of people, as well as design business that constantly works on development of new forms of own organization. Currently he identifies himself as a process facilitator,  and courage and curiosity navigate him through the world. He believes in abundance, collaboration and the power of collective intelligence.