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]
