Popular search query: “Making Millions with NFTs!” Empowerment or Trap? Jackpot or pocket money? You be the judge. Time to auction off our criticality. In a single year, NFTs have gone from obscurity to superstardom. Are NFTs, DeFi and gamified
New Common Sense: Forging a European Ecosystem of Platform Coops
Discussion „Forging the European Ecosystem“ by Ela Kagel (Platform Cooperatives Germany), Luca Pastorelli (DIESIS), Jan Zygmuntowski (CoopTechHub Poland), Ana Agirre (TAZEBAEZ) and Jose Mari Luzarraga (Mondragon) Facilitated by Jonas Pentzien (IÖW) as part of the #NewCommonSense conference, the 6th edition
Demokratie, Kunst und Kapital – Podcast von Ela Kagel
Auf dem Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz vor dem Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus wurden im Rahmen des Projekts „Skulpturale Demokratie„, organisiert von der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf wegweisende radikaldemokratische Modelle, die auf Beuys‘ Idee der sozialen Plastik zurückgehen, erkundet und verglichen: Formen des ‚Wir’“ von Anfang Juni bis
Building Communities and Networks for Commons-Based Economies
A public learning journey and exchange between commons practitioners from Instituto Procomum / Santos, Brazil and SUPERMARKT in Berlin. SUPERMARKT Berlin and Instituto Procomum in Santos, São Paolo/ Brazil, have been doing extensive work in the field of the commons,
MoneyLab Berlin video documentation
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
Data Coops Call, Friday January 22nd, 2021
This community call was dedicated to cooperative structures that enable their members to create open data, track their data and help pooling data. Data coops might become a key factor in leveraging the power dynamics between people producing data and
MoneyLab: Disaster Capitalism will come to Berlin in March 2021!
Disaster Capitalism In Momenten katastrophaler Veränderungen wird das zuvor Undenkbare plötzlich Wirklichkeit. Die Covid-19-Krise weckt nicht nur unsere tiefsten Ängste, sondern gleichzeitig auch unseren Sinn für das Mögliche. Das MoneyLab Berlin will Platz schaffen für Utopien, Experimente und radikale Vorstellungen
Platform Coop Netzwerk für Deutschland: Ankündigung des Starts unseres IGP-Projekts
Platform Cooperativism ist die Idee einer Neustrukturierung der globalen Plattform-Ökonomie. Zu den Plattform-Kooperativen, kurz “Platform Coops”, zählen Genossenschaften mit einem digitalen Geschäftsmodell, aber auch andere Unternehmensformen, die Eigentum und Mitbestimmung neu denken. Vor diesem Hintergrund fördert das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft