Matt Ratto is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto and director of the Critical Making lab (http://www.criticalmaking.com). His research examines how information technologies are involved in the processes by which cultures, societies, and institutions make sense of the world and simultaneously work to construct and organize it.
Re-hacking your World examines issues of crisis and possibility by intervening in the relationships between environment, industry and culture. Has our cultural hardware and software become useless and unserviceable faced with the complex challenges that confront us? In order to prevent a complete takeover of commercial interests in the development of digital cultures in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it becomes essential to promote and strengthen the vocabulary of open source systems and develop fair use mechanisms.