Funding the Commons Forum Berlin

I am an interdisciplinary nomad and explorer of the forefront of technology and culture. My life has led me through a vast diversity of environments; from playing in rock bands, to working in web3, all the way to an academic trajectory that led me to pursing PhD in philosophy of science, which I am currently on. The research involves "researching research environments" using social science methods to investigate complex cross-disciplinary coordination through a focus on situated cooperative work mediated by protocols. For these purposes, I have conducted participatory action-oriented fieldwork in local agricultural plant science institutes in Greece.

In parallel, I mostly find myself being an independent "scout" for emerging scenes of techno-cultural novelty exploring alternatives. This has led me through crypto, mostly focused on Ethereum, where I had been part of various DAOs and other orgs, mainly focused around organization and governance (Metagame, SCRF, MetaGov). I have since moved out of the web3 sphere to related countercultural movements in P2P, makerspaces commoning, being an associate to the Crypto Commons Association. I am also Vice President of the Society for Multidiscipinary and Foundamental Research (SEMF), a Spanish-based NGO experimenting with creating spaces for transdisicplinary intersection between science, humanities and art, beyond academia, mostly through event organizing.

My latest fascination has been the prefigurative potentials of fiction and worldbuilding. I have been rallying for establishing a stronger network of sci-fi writers focused on alternative economic and institutional imaginaries and this workshop is part of this effort.