User:Jose pl

Jose Perez de Lama, aka osfa, these days i am one of the directors for the (new to the network) Fab Lab Sevilla, Spain [founded in 2009]. I work as professor and subdirector at the School of Architecture at the University of Sevilla that houses and supports the fablab [Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Universidad de Sevilla]. I have a PhD in Architecture.

Our main interest in fabrication is related to its social applications, within a frame of free culture and collective intelligence; - without forgetting creative, artistic dimensions.

I have worked for more than ten years with the group hackitectura.net involved with free software, urban space and social networks. One of the projects we have dedicated more time during these years is named WikiPlaza, a concept and a collection of urban scale prototypes focused on the application of free software and p2p production to the rethinking of the contemporary city. We just published a nice book about this project - with editions both in Spanish and English.

I read a lot; right now i am reading Gregory Bateson's Steps to an Ecology of Mind.

Everyone in our team is enthusiastic and happy to join the fab lab network!

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