Felipe  Schmidt Fonseca
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Reuse City

Felipe Schmidt Fonseca

  • Berlin Science Week
  • 2024
  • Speaker

Felipe Schmidt Fonseca is an experienced Berlin-based Brazilian advocate for social-environmental innovation and free/open-source technologies turned researcher. He is the founder of Reuse City studio and a co-creator of semente, a toolkit for community projects; as well as the co-founder and lead articulator of the Tropixel network; and an active member of organisations such as GIG and Circular Berlin. Between 2019 and 2022, Felipe was a Marie Curie Early Stage Research Fellow (University of Dundee / Northumbria University / Mozilla Foundation). He has recently engaged in collaborations such as ID21, fonte.wiki, ALGO-BR, and CODE. He has a PhD in Design from Northumbria University (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK). The title of the thesis successfully defended in September 2023 is "Generous cities – weaving commons-oriented systems for the reuse of excess materials in urban contexts".