The Madrid P2P Commune
Here’s our translation of Bernardo Gutiérrez’s love letter to his home city, a place that’s still surprisingly alive and vibrant in the midst of the austerity meltdown affecting southern Europe.
Bernardo Gutiérrez
Bernardo Gutiérrez (Madrid, 1975) is a journalist, photographer, writer and media consultant. He studied Information Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal). As a contributor, editor, reporter, photographer or editor, he’s worked for publications such as National Geographic, GEO, El País, Interviú, El Mundo, 20 Minutes, La Vanguardia, Public, That Leer, Tiempo, La Repubblica (Rome), Expresso (Lisbon ), Esquire, Playboy, Vogue, Esquire, Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), Clarin (Buenos Aires) or Milenio (Mexico City), among others.
He has participated in more than ten journalistic consulting projects in different Latin American countries and in Spain. In 2010 he published the book “Bernardo Calle Amazonas” (Altaïr, Barcelona) on the Brazilian Amazon. He is also author of the Open-Source novel “#24H” (dpr-barcelona).
He researches, writes and lectures frequently about hacker culture, cities open source, transmedia city, networks, free culture, digital activism and the P2P world.
Links
Prehispanic 2.0 – Latin America’s P2P Roots
“The native peoples anticipated the much-touted sharing economy by a few centuries. While the current global crisis pushes capitalism towards an irreversible mutation, our vision of a post-capitalist future is remarkably similar to the pre-capitalist origins of indigenous America.”
Medialab Prado: 10 Years of Social Innovation
The following article, written by our good friend Bernardo Gutiérrez, looks at MediaLab Prado, a very special hybrid space in
#GlobalP2P, The Wind that Shook the Net
Bernardo Gutiérrez Collaboration, networking, transversality, openness, free licenses, remixing, transnationality. On March 20, the hashtag #GlobalP2P suddenly vaulted up among
Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes
Image: Voces con Futura Bernardo Gutiérrez Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel “The old protests, so dull
Net Parties: Who they are and how they’re different
Image by Joachim S. Müller Bernardo Gutiérrez The emergence of Partido X (Spain), Partido de la Red (Argentina), Red Sustentável (Brasil)
Bernardo Gutiérrez (Madrid, 1975) is a journalist, photographer, writer and media consultant. He studied Information Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal). As a contributor, editor, reporter, photographer or editor, he’s worked for publications such as National Geographic, GEO, El País, Interviú, El Mundo, 20 Minutes, La Vanguardia, Public, That Leer, Tiempo, La Repubblica (Rome), Expresso (Lisbon ), Esquire, Playboy, Vogue, Esquire, Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), Clarin (Buenos Aires) or Milenio (Mexico City), among others.
He has participated in more than ten journalistic consulting projects in different Latin American countries and in Spain. In 2010 he published the book “Bernardo Calle Amazonas” (Altaïr, Barcelona) on the Brazilian Amazon. He is also author of the Open-Source novel “#24H” (dpr-barcelona).
He researches, writes and lectures frequently about hacker culture, cities open source, transmedia city, networks, free culture, digital activism and the P2P world.
Links
Prehispanic 2.0 – Latin America’s P2P Roots
“The native peoples anticipated the much-touted sharing economy by a few centuries. While the current global crisis pushes capitalism towards an irreversible mutation, our vision of a post-capitalist future is remarkably similar to the pre-capitalist origins of indigenous America.”
Medialab Prado: 10 Years of Social Innovation
The following article, written by our good friend Bernardo Gutiérrez, looks at MediaLab Prado, a very special hybrid space in
#GlobalP2P, The Wind that Shook the Net
Bernardo Gutiérrez Collaboration, networking, transversality, openness, free licenses, remixing, transnationality. On March 20, the hashtag #GlobalP2P suddenly vaulted up among
Spain’s Micro-Utopias: The 15M Movement and its Prototypes
Image: Voces con Futura Bernardo Gutiérrez Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Ann Marie Utratel “The old protests, so dull
Net Parties: Who they are and how they’re different
Image by Joachim S. Müller Bernardo Gutiérrez The emergence of Partido X (Spain), Partido de la Red (Argentina), Red Sustentável (Brasil)