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Antonio Lafuente García holds a PhD in physical sciences and works as a research scientist at the Center for Human and Social Sciences (CSIC).

He researches the relationship between technology and the commons, as well as the links between new and old heritages. His interest in the commons has led him to study the challenges posed by the expansion of intellectual property rights in science and to analyze the implications of concepts such as governance, open knowledge, participation, technical democracy, biz science and scientific culture.

He was the coordinator of the Commons Lab at MediaLab-Prado in Madrid from its beginnings in 2007 until 2017, where he shared his theoretical contributions in the study on the commons among and formalized the theory of its four environments consisting of the body, nature, the city and the digital environment.

He has published two dozen books and more than a hundred articles (many of them in international journals or publications) and has also directed editorial collections on science.

He currently coordinates the website La Aventura de Aprender, a platform where he argues that social movements and citizen collectives, understood as learning communities that articulate local demands, should be part of the educational system.