Antonio Lafuente

Antonio Lafuente

Spain-Granada

D. in physical sciences and works at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CSIC, Madrid). He has published two dozen books and more than a hundred articles or book chapters, many of them in international journals or publications. He has directed editorial collections on science and, among his most successful books are Los caballeros del punto fijo (1987), Mundialización de la ciencia y cultura nacional (1992), Ciencia colonial en América (1996), Guía del Madrid Científico: ciencia y corte (1998), El carnaval de la tecnociencia (2007), Las dos orillas de la ciencia (2012), ¡Todos sabios! (2013), slowU (2020) and Itinererios Comunes (2022). After many years exploring how science and empire co-produce or how science cannot survive without its publics, he is now more interested in the urban scale of science and, in particular, by the practices associated with the notions of commons, prototyping, citizen lab and open science. He was the coordinator of the Procomún Lab between 2007 and 2017 (MediaLab-Prado, Madrid). 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 education system.