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Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners from respective communities to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.

Solidarity Infrastructures

Solidarity Infrastructures is a class that brings together creative practitioners to investigate, strategize, upskill, and dream toward alternative socio-technological systems.

Urban problems: nature-based solutions and a Green New Deal everywhere

Nature-based Solutions with localised Green New Deals could save our settlements, and provide a just transition to a low-carbon society

CityNerd — Is It An Actual Thing? And Can Cities Fix It?

If you're like a lot of people, the whole idea of the "male loneliness epidemic" elicits a huge eye roll more than anything. Well, today we're digging into the research on why this is an emerging issue, and whether urban planning is part of the solution.

Commoning as Relational Provisioning & Governance | David Bollier

This is the second section of an essay, "Relationalized Finance for Generative Living Systems and Bioregions," by David Bollier and Natasha Hulst. The remaining three sections of the essay will be published in the remaining days of this week. The full essay can be downloaded as a PDF here.

Liberating work - workers.coop

Worker cooperatives enable workers to unite and collectively advance their economic, social, and cultural interests.

Radical Interoperability is a Political Agenda

Model the world you want to live in.

Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm | David Bollier

Every so often I am invited to write a piece that in effect answers the question, “Why the commons?”  I invariably find new answers to that question each time that I re-engage with it.  My latest attempt is an essay, “Commoning as a Transformative Social Paradigm,” which I wrote for the Next System Project as part of its series of proposals for systemic alternatives.

Supermodular — The Collective Intelligence Project

There are many situations where it is cheaper to provide a benefit to many people all at once, rather than providing them to one person at a time. Examples range from shipping networks to public health to digital infrastructure to scientific research. As technological development accelerates, more and more goods fall into this category, incentivizing economic actors to provide goods in a massively “wholesale”, rather than retail way. This points toward greater efficiency, but also deeper economic and social vulnerabilities. It results in more and more vital infrastructure that is open to private capture and monopoly. And AI accelerates these dynamics to an unprecedented degree.

Grassroots Economics — Community-Powered Economies

Empowering communities across the World with community currencies, ecosystem restoration, and commitment pooling since 2010.

Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power

[This document serves as a memo for investors]

What does a sustainable open source project look like?

Over the past couple years, thanks in part to Nadia Eghbal’s Roads and Bridges report, the world is starting to see the need for long-term…