User:Leemos

Lucas Lemos is a Spanish expat residing in Estonia since 2009. Entrepreneurial, inquisitive, and creative, they work at the intersection of technology, governance systems, and community empowerment. They envision a future where technology empowers communities and builds resilient, collaborative systems on our planet and beyond. Their research explores collaborative technology and institutional innovation, focusing on grassroots organisations and outer space commons.

Driven by their vision, they co-founded Commons Kernel Lab (2024) to advance research and initiatives in collaborative technology and community-driven innovation. They have also collaborated with grassroots space technology communities like ESTCube from Estonia and Libre Space from Greece, aiming to start a space commons research lab in the near future.

Lucas holds an MA in Technology Governance from TalTech (2019) and is currently completing their PhD research on grassroots technology initiatives in outer space. They served as Board Member and Administrative Director at Fab City Foundation (2018-2024), research fellow at TalTech’s Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance (2019-2023), visiting lecturer at MSc Design & Technology Futures (2022-2025), and fellow at the P2P Lab (2019-2025).

They invite researchers and practitioners to connect regarding potential collaborations in technology governance, space commons, and community empowerment.

Contact: lucasb.lemos[at]proton.me

Publications:

• Kostakis, V., Lemos, L., & Kouvara, A. (2024). Another Scalability is Possible! From Non-Scalability to Cosmolocal Scalability. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 22(2), 620–629. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v22i2.1535

• Lemos, L., & Ainse, D. (2023). Open-sourcing a makerspace community: A small wind turbine workshop at Kopli 93. Fab City Foundation. https://distributeddesign.eu/resources/open-sourcing-a-makerspace-community/

• Lemos, L., Ainse, D., & Faras, A. (2022). DAO meets the Estonian e-residency program: A stance from Synergy’s blockchain-based open-source toolkit. Conference Proceedings of the STS Conference Graz 2022, 175–193. https://doi.org/10.3217/978-3-85125-932-2-11

• Lemos, L., & Giotitsas, C. (2021). Can Communities Produce Complex Technology? Looking Into Space for Insight. Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 41(2–3), 35–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/02704676211041900

• Schismenos, A., Niaros, V., & Lemos, L. (2020). Cosmolocalism: Understanding the Transitional Dynamics Towards Post-Capitalism. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 670–684. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v18i2.1188

• Lemos, L. (2019). Commons-based technology in the digital era: The case of Estcube [Master, Tallinn University of Technology]. https://digikogu.taltech.ee/et/item/871ffbe6-e476-467a-bfc2-f9d575e20684