Science
The ISSS and Mars Exploration Research in the Southeast Asian Context
Venzha Christ
An alternative viewpoint on science and space exploration in equatorial and tropical island nations.
Commons
Science
Citizen Science and the Arts
OpenSystems
Science and art may find common ground in the drive to conduct serious scientific research through shared experiences.
Commons
Citizen Science for Social Change
OpenSystems
Citizen science can be a tool for community change by collecting data and applying the scientific method with the help of citizens.
Culture
Flexible Institutions for a Fast-Changing World
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
The time has come to convert the public administrations into flexible, distributed spaces with a shared purpose and meaning.
Culture
Is Lab All There Is?
Ramon Sangüesa
The “lab” concept has been a great success. It had the good fortune to be appropriated by all kinds of actors: public, semi-public, private, and any combination.
Commons
A New Economy: Social, Commons, Feminist, and Environmental
Mayo Fuster Morell
Airbnb, Uber or eBay have popularized the collaborative economy, but where cooperativism is? The concentration of wealth continues in corporations.
Commons
Culture
Putting Diversity into Cultural Heritage
Cira Pérez
Can cultural institutions help to redefine our heritage from a multicultural perspective?
Technology
The Keys of Bitcoin and Blockchain
Alan Lazalde
Bitcoin and Blockchain are a new generation of internet systems that eliminates middlemen, financial services that are fairer, transparent and accessible.
Commons
Public Innovation: Open, Social, Cultural
Alberto Ortiz de Zárate
The key to public innovation: it adds value to legitimate recipients.
Technology
The Internet in Latin America
Alan Lazalde
Latin Americans make up 10% of the world's internet users. What do they use the internet for?
Culture
Lab Phenomena: From the long march to the agil sprint
Adam Price
Are we poised on the cusp of a new golden age of experimentalism, or rapidly approaching Peak Lab?
Commons
Dossier
Laboratories
In recent years we have lived through an explosion of different models in cultural, artistic, technological and social laboratories.