On October 5, 6, and 7, the “Allied Grounds” conference brought together scholars, activists, and cultural workers from more than 25 countries at the House of Democracy and Human Rights in Berlin. It was the culmination of Berliner Gazette’s annual
Video documentation of MoneyLab Berlin
MoneyLab Berlin, which took place as a three-days online marathon from march 26-28, 2021, was a blast: More than 20 speakers from all walks of money activism, platform cooperativism, commons-oriented economies, collaborative finance, crypto art & NFTs and other interestig
Update on MoneyLab Berlin
Update on MoneyLab Berlin (March 26-28, 2021) When we started to plan for MoneyLab Berlin it was quite clear that we would not be able to organize a big, real-world conference with people joining from all parts of Europe and
MoneyLab call-in show on #GameStop / Feb 1st, 2021
Over the past weeks the swarm of small-time, amateur investors “revenge buying” stock in GameStop, AMC and other firms has sent shivers down the spine of Wall Street and led to unprecedented reactions from establishment experts, regulators and corporations. Is
MoneyLab: Disaster Capitalism will come to Berlin in March 2021!
MoneyLab #11: Disaster Capitalism This first edition of MoneyLab Berlin is inspired by Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism from 2007. Klein’s work centers on the exploitation of different crises to establish controversial policies while
Documentation of Funding Strategies for the Cooperative Digital Economy from April 9th, 2020
On Thursday, April 9th, 2020, we have hosted the third edition of our online series on platform coops: “Funding Strategies for the Cooperative Digital Economy”. Thanks to Karim Chabrak for presenting Coinsence as a great example for a P2P funding
Platform Coops Berlin: Building a Local Food Delivery Network
This is a brief report of an event we held on October 24th, 2019 at SUPERMARKT: Building a Local Food Delivery Network. This event was collectively organized by Ela Kagel, Andreas Arnold, Thomas Dönnebrink, Jonas Pentzien, Dominik Piétron and Stefano
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