Design Research | Participatory Action Research | Community Building | Open Source | Green Tech
Reuse City is a studio dedicated to applied research, service design and technology development in the fields of circular economy, right to repair, and zero waste policy. Led by Dr Felipe Schmidt Fonseca, Reuse City is based on decades of experience creating community-oriented initiatives of material reuse.
Reuse City can help your organisation or locality progress towards circular practices, reducing the impact of waste and generating socio-economic opportunities. It combines years of experience on material reuse and research-based solutions. Reuse City can design bespoke projects to your particular necessities.
Some of our research-backed solutions to promote the reuse of materials through repairs, upcycling, adaptations and recirculation.
Learn more about them here.
Openly governed database about goods and materials, providing data to help reuse and reṕair.
Toolkit to enable communities to create local and collaborative circular reuse systems.
Education on the fundamental skills to promote the reuse of materials in cities and regions.
Felipe Schmidt Fonseca, PhD, is an experienced consultant and advocate for social-environmental innovation and free/open-source technologies.
In the last two decades, Felipe was a co-founder and leader of diverse initiatives dedicated to critical thinking (and making) at the intersections between culture, science, technology and society. Some examples are semente, Tropixel, MetaReciclagem, CulturaDigital.BR, Bricolabs, Rede//Labs, Lixo Eletrônico, Ciência Aberta Ubatuba, UbaLab. He is a frequent speaker on circularity, socio-environmental innovation, and repair culture.
It is a consensus that recycling won't be enough to cope with the growing volume of materials being discarded everyday. The Reuse City studio has the mission of creating knowledge, technology and methodologies to increase the reuse of materials through systems-based approaches. It is borne out of a doctoral investigation titled "Generous cities – weaving commons-oriented systems for the reuse of excess materials in urban contexts".
