This event aims at gathering key players of the platform cooperativism movement to explore shared values, common goals and a joint political agenda. Over the course of two days, participants get introduced into cooperative structures – from learning how to start off and run cooperative businesses to exploring visionary ideas about platform coop design and its impact on politics, markets and society at large.

This #platformcoop-event is all about shared ownership, democratic control and self-organization, with an extra focus on blockchain technologies to enable bootstrapping of decentralized organizations.

Please find more infos about platform coops and the programme here!

REGISTRATION: Please send us a mail to rsvp@supermarkt-berlin.net and tell us a bit about yourself and why this event is of interest to you. Thanks! Entry free of charge.

LANGUAGE: Both the local and the international perspective is important for the platform coop movement. We therefore strive at being as inclusive as possible when it comes to languages. Some of our sessions are in German only, most are in English. The program below clearly flags the language of each session. Regardless of the language of presentation, we welcome feedback, questions and comments in any language and try our best to support with translations.

09.00  Check in. Get a coffee. Meet the people.
09.30  Welcome and summary of yesterday’s event. (E)

10.00  PANEL DISCUSSION 1: Fighting Fire with Fire? (English)
Death Star platforms vs locally governed, decentralized nodes that share infrastructures. How can we build better structures for collaboration and co-production between platforms? What do we need to interoperate and grow stronger together?
Moderation: Ela Kagel (SUPERMARKT Berlin), Speakers: Daniel Corral (Coliga), Dominika Wruk (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung), Juho Makkonen (Sharetribe), Magdalena Ziomek (SMART), Christian Hildebrand (Jolocom).

11.00  PANEL DISCUSSION 2: Platform coops for neighbourhood economies (English)
How can we scale the platform coop concept to the micro levels of economy? How can local economies benefit from platform coops and what kind of infrastructures do they need?
Moderation: Thomas Dönnebrink (OuiShare), Speakers: Laura Colini & Lorenzo Tripodi (Tesserae Urban Social Research),  Joy Lohmann (Open Island), Gabriela Masfarré Pintó & Georgina Campins (Ideas for Change), Volker Siems, (neighbourhood network Polly & Bob).

12.00  Combine to Innovate: Introduction into the Pentagrowth Methodology (English), by Gabriela Masfarré Pintó

13.00  Lunch Break

14.00  Start of worksession 1: “From Business Modelling to Platform Design” (English), by Eugenio Battaglia, Platform Design Toolkit): Eugenio will open the session with a 30-minutes introduction into the concept of platform design, which will be followed straight by the platform design workshop.
14.00  Start of parallel worksession 2: “Modell für eine wordpressbasierte, flexible, und open source-basierte Coop-Plattform” von Joy Lohmann (Open Island) (German).

14.00  Start of URLab #2 – Platform City – workshop, organized by Tesserae Urban Social Research group, PLEASE NOTE: this workshop takes place at SUPERMARKT  (English).

16.00  Break / Individual talks

16.30  Reports from the workshops (English)

17:00  Wrap up of of the last two days (English)
Compilation of needs, ideas, and concrete steps towards building a platform coop-ecosystem in the region.

18:00  Dinner – let’s cook together or bring food! We’ll celebrate the results of the last two days.

21.00 End

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Supprted by Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin, Senatskanzlei, Kulturelle Angelegenheiten/City Tax

Produced by  SUPERMARKT Berlin, in cooperation with Streampark Gmbh & Co. KG , AGORA, Tesserae Urban Social Research .
Directed & organized by Ela Kagel and Thomas Dönnebrink
Event visual: Joy Lohmann, artlab4