In this online seminar Stacco Troncoso gives an overview of the DisCO (Distributed Cooperative) model, which he alternately describes as a brand, an economic LARP, and an open source conspiracy to take over the world. This presentation was part of Metagov's Groundwork...
“People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. . . . We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and...
Look out, honey, 'cause I'm using technology Ain't got time to make no apology Soul radiation in the dead of night Love in the middle of a firefight. Iggy and the Stooges. Search and Destroy. (Listen here) Has 2022 been a weird year for you? That's OK, things are...
As part of the Regens Unite Conference (September 16-17, 2022) in Berlin, Ela Kagel (SUPERMARKT Berlin & Platform Cooperatives Germany) and Irene Lopez de Vallejo (DisCO.Coop), offered a workshop on decentralised governance to the Regens community. The main...
The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Topics of the seminar include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and...
The Platform Coops NOW! course, now on its second edition, is a hands on program mixing theory and practice to introduce people to Platform Cooperativism. DisCOs are a very specific and future-minded iteration of Platform Coops so, for the second year running, we were...
Stacco Troncoso teaches and writes on the Commons, P2P politics and economics, open culture, post-growth futures, Platform and Open Cooperativism, decentralized governance, blockchain and more as part of the P2P Foundation, Commons Transition, and Guerrilla Media...
Radical Practice Studio 2020/21 Reimagining future built environment models for 21st century regenerative practice In the midst of building “recovery plans”, we argue we need to design “long emergency” development models - where buildings, roads, sewers and parks, are...
Uninspired by bullshit jobs? Tired of working for absentee shareholders and investors? While some of us are leaving our workplaces to create better models and methods of governance and value distribution, the devil is in the details....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcm77AAagTM&feature=youtu.be Introduction What if your community had a way to organize itself, so that it better represented ALL the work that was happening? Not just which is deemed “economic value” but inclusive of commons care...