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Ricardo Lafuente is a designer, coder, hacker culture enthusiast, and digital rights activist. Together with Ana Isabel Carvalho, he runs the data journalism agency J++ Porto and the design studio Manufactura Independente. He has taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, developing curricula focused on design, the web, digital interfaces, hardware hacking, and copyright theory. He has been involved in the founding and nurturing (and, in some cases, the decline) of several communities that helped create much-needed spaces and movements: the Hacklaviva hackerspace (2009–2012), Transparência Hackday Portugal / Date With Data meetups (2010–2020), Open Knowledge Portugal (2015–2020), D3 (2017–), Tilde.pt (2020–), and Ciberlândia (2022–). In all of these, he has worked both in facilitation and technical infrastructure, always relying on free and open-source software tools. As co-founder and current president of D3, he has coordinated the association’s public engagement on issues such as metadata, COVID apps, communications privacy, net neutrality, copyright, and, more recently, the Worldcoin controversy.
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