The first-ever MoneyLab Crowdfunding Campaign is still going strong!

We’re getting closer to our goal, but we still need your support to make it happen – printing the MoneyLab Reader #2 so it can travel the world. For the first time, we ask you to help us fund this new project. Through it, we wish to sustain and spread the critical reflection on digital technologies and society that the MoneyLab has been contributing to since 2013. We have already reached more than €1600 or 33% of our goal!

As a moment of reflection in this campaign, let’s take a moment to look back to 2013. In this year, MoneyLab developed a practical and informative Crowdfunding Toolkit, in order to help artists & designers take matters in their own hands and be better accustomed to funding their projects through crowdfunding. The toolkit is still available here. You can find it here.

It is now 2016. Crowdfunding has begun to crystallize as a symptom of a larger issue: that of precarity in the cultural sector, it is also important to reflect critically on societal changes and technological developments that facilitate the current financial state of public institutions and creatives alike.

The INC is not immune to the consistent shrinking of cultural sector budgets. As a sign of the times and equipped with a healthy dose of irony (such as the crowdfunding jars used at MoneyLab #3 conference), we have resorted to entrepreneurial spirit and launched the first-ever INC Crowdfunding Campaign to fund the printing of the second MoneyLab Reader.

Money donated in this particular jar will go towards an INC team-building trip to the Cayman Islands…

If you think that the cultural sector shouldn’t need to resort to crowdfunding in order to encourage, produce and spread important critical knowledge, this first-ever INC crowdfunding campaign is for you!

At this point, discussions and debates about universal basic income, blockchain, platform cooperativism, cryptocurrencies, peer2peer distribution, copyright, platform monopolies and the financial struggle of both the creative class and of cultural institutions are seeping into the mainstream. It is important to continue to reflect on their social and political ramifications.

From January 2017, we are going to start working on this next MoneyLab reader in order to explore these themes critically. The reader will be released around December 2017.

Help us make it happen and don’t forget to check out the rewards on our Crowdfunding Page.

We would also like to thank you all for your support so far! Without all your contributions and support, spreading MoneyLab knowledge would have not been possible!