A delegation of five platform coops from Belgium – namely Usitoo, FitMyNest, Cobea, Coop It Easy and Wibee – accompanied and financed by Smart Belgium and Hub Brussels / EU-GIVE visited Berlin on the 16. and 17.05.2019 for a two-day
Learnings from Social Permaculture
On May 26th, 2019, the Permaculture educator and practitioner Alfred Decker held a Social Permaculture workshop at SUPERMARKT. This workshop was part of the Facilitate Change! – series, which introduces various methodologies and frameworks to facilitate change processes within communities
Platform Coops Germany: Latest Update
What’s new at Platform Coops Germany: When Ela Kagel & Thomas Dönnebrink started off the #platformcoop meetups at SUPERMARKT three years ago, the initial group of participants was not only smaller, but also more consistent. Today, it turns out that
MORE WORLD | Communal Tools for Planetary Challenges: Talk by Avery F. Gordon
This is the recording of Avery F. Gordon’s talk MORE WORLD | Communal Tools for Planetary Challenges, held at January 24th, 2019 at SUPERMARKT Berlin. This event was produced by our partners from Berliner Gazette. Avery F. Gordon is one
A Distributed Governance Learning Journey // Documentation of Nov 23, 2018
This is the video documentation of the public talks of our RChain Europe community meetup of Nov 23, 2018 at SUPERMARKT Berlin. Thanks to our speakers: Ela Kagel, Andreas Arnold, Anna Blume, Stacco Tronsocco, Peter Harris, Ann Marie Utratel, Francesca
Working towards MoneyLab in times of Corona
Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization
This is a report of the workshop Art After Money, Money After Art: Creative Strategies Against Financialization, that was held at SUPERMARKT Berlin on Nov 3rd, 2018 together with Max Haiven, Tatiana Bazzichelli, Elena Veljanovska and Lenara Verle. This workshop
Guest Article by Kibbs Fortilus: Doubting Dreamers
Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom (George Iles) When I first explained my research question to a close friend of mine, she doubted it. My research question, concerning how hybrid organizations are transforming capitalism, was one that
The Money is the Message: Turning Credit Creation into a Force for Good, by Ludwig Schuster
In our third Money Talk-edition Ludwig Schuster was giving a lecture on credit as capitalism’s core feature. He mapped out in detailed how credit creation through banks counteracts our efforts for sustainable change. In a capitalist economy, institutions known as
Building structured support for platform coops
During our previous Platformcoop Berlin-meetups we collaboratively established a Trello board in order to capture resources, links and action items that we found helpful for building structured support for platform coops. This board was introduced and set up by Alexandre