LAURA LOTTI
About me:
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Researcher, analyst and writer based in Lisbon, Portugal
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Investigating networked organizations and the cultural economy of web3
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Co-founder of Other Internet Research Institute, a non-profit applied research organization studying the social, political and economic effects of digitalization.
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2020-2023: co-maintainer of Black Swan DAO, a Berlin-based project exploring horizontal approaches to art making and developing consensus-building tools for collectives
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Recovering academic with a background in economics, media studies and philosophy
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2016: PhD from UNSW Sydney - Faculty of Arts Design and Architecture, with a thesis investigating money as a technology through the philosophy of proto-cybernetician Gilbert Simondon
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Methodological toolkit: token economics, governance design, ecosystem strategy, philosophy of technology, ethnographic methods
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Incipient interests: regenerative technocultures, mutualistic org structures, food sovereignty
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If you'd like to talk about any of these, feel free to reach out!
More info:
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For an almost-updated list of my writings (academic and non), public engagements, and projects + professional bios, see this page