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
Bericht vom letzten Platformcoop-Meetup im SUPERMARKT
Danke an Markus Kollotzek und Peter Hartmann, die diesen Report verfasst haben. Der Text ist im Original hier erschienen: Bericht vom vierten Platform Coops Berlin Meetup Demokratisch organisierte „Plattform-Kooperativen“ bieten zukunftsgerichteten Menschen und Organisationen erstmals die Möglichkeit, sich unabhängig von
Video documentation of “Token Economy – The Future of Currencies?”
Shermin Voshmgir, director of the Research Institute for Crypto Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and founder of BlockchainHub, was our guest at the second Money Talk on Februrary 20, 2018. In her amazing lecture “Token Economy – The
Platform Coop Meetup / Sept. 20, 2017
Summary of the Platform Coop meetup on September 20th, 2017 at SUPERMARKT: When we invited people for our latest #platformcoop meetup we didn’t have a particular agenda in mind. Our main interest was to call everyone who is currently in
Why Platform Coops?
Platform coops respond to the market failures of the online economy – the following info graphics, published by the Platform Coop Consortium, shows you how: https://platform.coop/about/why-platform-co-ops
An Economy for Culture
This is the documentation of our workshop “Culture as Commons – from the Creative Industries to Collaborative Economies” from May 24.-26., 2017 in Madrid. Hosted by the Goethe Institut Madrid and Medialab Prado, this workshop was part of the larger
Discussing challenges of learning in the digital age
While the Supermarkt-team is working on collaborative learning models since its very beginnings, we are happy to constantly finding new partners who develop their own approaches to learning in the digital age. Today, Sascha Bardua, initiator of the project “The
Kultur als Commons: Von den kreativen Industrien zu den kollaborativen Ökonomien
Auf Einladung des Goethe-Instituts Madrid wird Ela Kagel im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe Das Kulturkabinett – Neue Perspektiven für die Kulturlandschaft am 25. Mai einen Workshop im Medialab Prado halten: Kultur als Commons: Von den kreativen Industrien zu den kollaborativen Ökonomien