Paolo Do is an activist and researcher at the self-managed ESC Atelier and
founder-member of LUM (Free Metropolitan University) in Rome. He is also a
founder-member of Edufactory
and Uninomade, and a collaborator of Dinamopress and Roars. Do holds a PhD in
Critical Management and Political Economy from Queen Mary University of London,
London and has written on the critique of the political economy of knowledge, organization
and strategy of transnational social movements, and new international division
of labor. He is author of Il tallone del drago: capitale globale e conflitti in
Cina (2010), and co-editor of Lessico
Marxiano. Dieci concetti per ripensare il presente (2009), and Towards a Global Autonomous University (2009). Currently Do is working on the relationship of
knowledge, art, and politics within art institutions. He is also working at the
concept and organization of the transdisciplinary research program on the
contemporary, Studio Roma; the art program Openings Out to Reality; and the artistic projects Draftsman
Congress and Cattedrale, among others, based at the Swiss Institute of Rome.
Do is based in Rome. [Last updated 2015]