Alexandre Freire is a Brazilian hacker currently constructing a House of Happiness in an isolated beach fishing community in Ilha Bela. This place will act as one of the bases for an emerging global culture of media practitioners, activists, artists, researchers and hackers to re-discover their lost sensibility while sharing knowledge and dwelling into the sciences of living and recycling renewable resources like food, energy, water and time using low-tech and free software. Having worked for many multinational corporations as a computer programmer years ago in many countries like USA, Portugal, Italy and Brasil, he left show business about 5 years ago. He joined a network of Brazilian collectives including DesCentro, submidialogia, metareciclagem, estúdio livre, midia tática, rádio livre, Arca, contraTV and mimoSa. With these he co-developed concepts of Digital Culture that he later helped implement as a coordinator of the Cultural Hotspots project at the Brazilian Ministry of Culture.