Great presentation and discussion with Max Haiven about his new book at Supermarkt Berlin. We gathered in three workshop groups to explore creative strategies WITHIN, AGAINST and BEYOND financialization. It was a lively discussion...
Between thoughts on where humanity is heading and how could we possibly lead and guide its course, we played a short round of the Currency Lab game. There were no group introductions, but I...
Get the little fact book featuring 14 real world alternative currencies, several of which inspired the challenges in the Currency Lab board game. How did they solve those challenges? Many of their strategies were...
The publication from Economia: a festival about the economy without the economists is out and it includes a printed version of the Currency Lab. The game was tweaked to fit a limited number of...
The Economia Festival is publishing a magazine and it will feature a simplified (but not at all less fun) version of the board game. Despite its small size, almost all challenges and strategies fit in....
The workshop participants at Economia Festival helped define some “magic numbers” in the Warhols currency design, in this way influencing the three economies (Speculation, Creation and Gift) programmed into this experimental digital money. One...
The Money & Society MOOC gathered a group of participants IRL and, among other things, we ran around the room trading playing cards for other cards and – most important – for candy. It...
How can the Currency Lab game help people dealing with concrete tasks in deploying an alternative currency in a local economy? The members of Faircoop’s local node in Ubatuba, Brazil played the game and...
(abaixo versão em português) The rural station for art & technology nuvem.tk gathered this December a group to exchange “proposals, ideas, elucubrations – practical or theoretical, fictional or in progress – aiming to subvert...
This two-day event featured round tables, presentations and discussions about money and community. It was part of the series “Art, Money & Self Organization in Digital Capitalism” The participants included representatives from several community...
I got to visit the place where the art coins are brought to life with the help of a huge vintage manual metal press. As manager of the Berlin branch and enthusiast of the...
It was an inspiring night presenting Charles Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics video, the Spreeblüte local Berlin currency and neighborhood activity group Polly & Bob for the Parallel Crossings festival meeting, along with the CurrencyLab game....
(abaixo versão em português) Vila Flores is an independent cultural center plus creative space in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and they are developing their own currency, the “Tigrão”. It is named after the neighbor’s dog...
We played the CurrencyLab game at the Congress on Solidarity Economy and Transformation in Berlin this week. The discussions were great, we had many critical thinkers and we didn’t reach consensus in any of...
How can a currency be connected to obscurity & fame? This was one of the questions we discussed during the currency design workshop at ISEA 2015 in Vancouver, Canada. A small but very dedicated...
For the meeting of Transition Town Berlin & Brandenburg last May, we tried for the first time playing the CurrencyLab game entirely in German language. An official translation is in the plans, but for...
The “Warhols” are inspired by the iconic statement that in an ever-faster-paced world, anyone will have 15 minutes of fleeting fame. At the same time, in a society with increased surveillance and growing levels...
Thanks to the great folks from BerlinGameScene.com, the video of my presentation of the CurrencyLab board game is online. The Q&A afterwards was fun. Some keywords: #Wörgl and #chickens. Also #kisses and #bitcoin. Luckily...
Besides the PDF for the board game and pieces, we are planning to provide also a 3D file for CurrencyLab players to be able to print their own game pieces. The first prototypes for...
The dclass conference offered their tickets for purchase with either Euros or a special currency of “Karma”. All but 20 of the tickets were bought with Karma, which could take many forms – from...
