Summary
Felipe Fonseca is an interdisciplinary researcher and strategist based in Berlin with 13 years of focused experience designing circular-economy programs, policy and participatory research that center material reuse, repair culture and digital commons. He leads international initiatives—currently at Global Innovation Gathering and as founder of Reuse City Studio—where he combines applied research, service design and tech development (ThingData, Reuse Commons, Reuse Academy) to operationalize community-rooted reuse infrastructures. An award-winning Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow and long-time practitioner, he has built transnational collaborations across academia, government and grassroots movements, including projects with the University of Bristol, Mozilla and COP-linked symposia. Known for blending culture and tech, he brings a rare mix of policy advising, curriculum development and hands-on tool creation to make regenerative systems legible and scalable.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
English, Spanish, Portuguese, German