Lucas Pretti

Lucas Pretti (b. 1983, São Paulo) is a journalist, art worker, activist and researcher. For the last 15 years, he has been a free culture advocate and part of a wide range of commons-based initiatives fighting for power distribution and people’s participation in decision-making. His current practice lies in the intersections of socially engaged communities and art institutions, with particular attention to horizontal governance models and emerging organisational aesthetics from the Global South. He is a PhD candidate in Arts, Literature and Cultural Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).