{"code":"8M8EQL","name":"Lucas Pretti","biography":"Lucas Pretti is a Brazilian journalist, art worker, activist and researcher. He has been a free culture advocate for over twenty years and has been involved in a wide range of commons-based initiatives fighting for power distribution and people's participation in decision-making. \r\n\r\nHe is currently the Communications & Advocacy Director at the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), from where he co-leads Open Goes COP, a coalition advocating for openness at the UN Climate Change Conferences. \r\n\r\nHe is also a PhD candidate in Arts, Literature and Cultural Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). His academic focus is on tracking and promoting commons-based practices among socially engaged communities, with a particular attention to horizontal governance models and emerging organisational aesthetics from the Global South.","submissions":["3NMMXA"],"avatar":"https://app.eventyay.com/talk/media/avatars/pretti-squared-700-low_V8wbdCv.png","avatar_source":null,"avatar_license":null,"answers":[]}