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=Short bio=
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Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab.


Vasilis Kostakis is Senior Researcher at the [https://www.ttu.ee/institutes/ragnar-nurkse-department-of-innovation-and-governance/department-11/senior/ Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance], Tallinn University of Technology, and a [https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/vkostakis Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society] Affiliate, Harvard University. He is also the founder of the [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/ P2P Lab].
*contact: vkostakis at cyber.harvard.edu  
 
*personal webpage: https://vkostakis.org/
*contact: kostakis.b at gmail.com OR vkostakis at cyber.harvard.edu  
*[http://fractalart.gr/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kostakis.jpg face]
*google scholar [https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=GhIZ-iEAAAAJ&hl=en page]
 
=Long bio=
 
Vasilis Kostakis is Senior Research Fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, and a Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Affiliate, Harvard University.
 
He is also Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Autonomous University of Barcelona; Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, VU University Amsterdam; and Fellow at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
 
Kostakis founded and coordinates the interdisciplinary research hub P2P Lab that investigates the socio-economic and political impact of free and open-source technologies. Moreover, he was the Research Coordinator (till February 2017) and now is a core member of the P2P Foundation, winner of the 2016 Golden Nica for Digital Communities. Further, he sits on the boards of commons-oriented start-ups and open access refereed journals journals.
 
Kostakis publishes, lectures, and consults governments and organizations on knowledge/information economy; political ecology and technology; urban and regional development with an emphasis on the use of distributed manufacturing; blockchain-based organization; and constructionist learning.
 
His work has appeared in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Korean, Romanian, Estonian, Finnish, Bosnian and Latvian as well as featured in several popular international media.
 
Vasilis is also an artist.
 
=Recent research projects=
 
*Currently Vasilis is coordinating [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/archives/1119 the PHYGITAL project].
*See the [http://p2plab.gr/en/archives/category/projects/completed completed], [http://p2plab.gr/en/archives/category/projects/ongoing ongoing] and [http://p2plab.gr/en/archives/category/projects/future future] projects of the P2P Lab.
 
=Ten selected academic publications=
*Peer-to-Peer: The Commons Manifesto (book). [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MC9ocKoHNgwZv2PdvvC3ijmGPkzM9ryIcB6ytp5HEUA/edit?usp=sharing draft]
*The Convergence of Digital Commons with Local Manufacturing from a Degrowth Perspective: Two Illustrative Cases. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652616314184 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Journal-of-Cleaner-Production.pdf text]
*Digital Economy and the Rise of Open Cooperativism: The Case of the Enspiral Network. [http://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/cQtJrUauKHrIGGYmMZtq/full site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Pazaitis_et_al_2017.pdf text]
*Blockchain and Value Systems in the Sharing Economy: The Illustrative Case of Backfeed. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162517307084 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Pazaitis_et_al_2017_TFSC.pdf text]
*Towards a Political Ecology of the Digital Economy: Socio-environmental Implications of Two Value Models. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422415300150 site] [http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Env-Innov-and-Soc-Trans.pdf text]
*Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy (book). [https://www.dropbox.com/s/1b0qewo850zupn8/Network%20Society%20%26%20Future%20Scenarios%20for%20a%20Collaborative%20Economy.epub?dl=0 ebook] [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/network-society-and-future-scenarios-for-a-collaborative-economy-vasilis-kostakis/?k=9781137415066 site] [http://p2pfoundation.net/Network_Society_and_Future_Scenarios_for_a_Collaborative_Economy wiki]
*Open Source 3D Printing as a Means of Learning: An Educational Experiment in Two High Schools in Greece. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585314000343 site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Telematics-Informatics-2.pdf text]
*Commons-Based Peer Production and Artistic Expression: Two Cases from Greece. [http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/14/1461444813511929.abstract site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NMS.pdf text]
*Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing: The Case of the Helix_T Wind Turbine Project. [http://sth.sagepub.com/content/38/6/773 site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/STHV.pdf text]
*Commons-Based Peer Production and Digital Fabrication: The Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585313000609 site] [http://p2plab.gr/el/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TI.pdf text]
 
=Five plus one selected op-eds=
*Why a post-capitalist utopian society is something real? @[Aeon (forthcoming)]
*Design global, manufacture local: a new industrial revolution? @[https://theconversation.com/design-global-manufacture-local-a-new-industrial-revolution-82591 TheConversation]
*Peer-to-peer production and the partner state @[http://www.redpepper.org.uk/peer-to-peer-production-and-the-partner-state/ RedPepper]
*Can blockchain, a swiftly evolving technology, be controlled? @[https://theconversation.com/can-blockchain-a-swiftly-evolving-technology-be-controlled-73471 TheConversation]
*Cooperativism in the digital era, or how to form a global counter-power @[https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/michel-bauwens-vasilis-kostakis/cooperativism-in-digital-era-or-how-to-form-global-counter-economy OpenDemocracy]
*Peer-to-peer: a new opportunity for the left @[https://roarmag.org/essays/peer-to-peer-bauwens-kostakis/ ROAR]


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Latest revision as of 18:04, 20 November 2025

Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard University. Vasilis is the founder of the P2P Lab.