Juan Freire has become perhaps one of the most recognized analysts and defenders of the tools and philosophy of “open source” or, rather, “open spectrum”, as he himself calls them in the conference that we pass you here. This is largely due to his work as editor of the blog Nómada, where we also find an interesting and documented analysis of the social, political and economic transformations implied by the use(s) of information and communication technologies (including the Internet).
In the conference, which was part of the conference The commons or new perspectives on the public organized last November by MediaLab-Prado and the magazine Archipiélago, addresses some issues that we find particularly interesting because they are close, and that revolve around the decline of public space, while pointing out or suggesting alternative management models: hybrid spaces (between public and private), self-organized, in whose design the users themselves can participate and to which a virtual stratum is superimposed capable of “increasing” their possibilities of use (a proposal very much in line with the work of Hackitectura, to which Freire himself refers). Anyway, he explains it much better and much more extensively in the video, which, to be honest, is a bit long (it lasts two hours between the conference and the question and answer session) although you can always listen to it in the background while performing some mechanical and repetitive task that does not prevent you from paying attention…