Posts By: Leila Ueberschlag

Moneylab Reader #2: Approaching our crowdfunding goals

By Leila, December 19, 2016

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 [...]

MoneyLab Reader #2: We reached 20% of our goal with €1049 collected

By Leila, December 12, 2016

About two weeks after the launch of our crowdfunding campaign, we are happy to announce that we reached 20% of our goal with €1049 collected! The first INC crowdfunding campaign was launched almost two weeks ago. Its aim is to raise €5000 before December 22 in order to support the printing costs of the next MoneyLab Reader. Part of [...]

MoneyLab#3 Failing Better: Introduction by Geert Lovink

By Leila, December 8, 2016

On December 1 & 2, MoneyLab#3 Failing Better assessed the ambition of financial provocations that have ignited to establish a terrain of social and political reform, from decentralized networks to state governments. The rift we find ourselves in goes much further than ‘the banks’ and financial retaliation can be considered more than attempts to fail [...]

Prevailing Over Money

By Leila, December 7, 2016

By Joana Chicau The workshop Prevailing Over Money, by Dmytri Kleiner and Baruch Gottlieb, was dedicated to rethinking the overall concept of “money”. Participants first examined the presuppositions related to the topic before discussing the question: “To which extent money is working and to which extent is it not?” Participants wrote down their ideas, read them [...]

Governance in the Age of Blockchains and Digital Currencies

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Joost Mellink The workshop Governance in the Age of Blockchains and Digital Currencies was a session organized by the Bitcoin Wednesday, a monthly conference on digital currency in the Netherlands. Founder of Bitcoin Wednesday and board member of the Dutch Bitcoin Foundation Richard Kohl opened the session by stressing the importance of critically questioning [...]

Role Play Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Pablo Velasco Ruth Catlow (artist and curator) and Ben Vickers (curator, writer, and technologist), brought the LARPing tradition to MoneyLab in this special workshop ‘Role PLay Your Way to Budgetary Blockchain Bliss’. Unsuspecting participants were assigned characters – generic roles that frequent the business cycle of start up tech companies trying to make the next [...]

Flexonomix District Currency Game

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Matthias Nothnagel The Flexonomix District Currency Game, an experimental workshop presented by Jens Martignoni, Panayotis Antoniadis and Ileana Apostol (nethood) allowed the participants to engage in a simulation aimed at testing the relations between micro-scale democracy and alternative currencies in the context of cooperative housing. With more than 5,000 different local-exchange and trading systems worldwide [...]

Big Pocket is Watching You

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Anastasia Kubrak Before introducing the speakers, Nathaniel Tkacz – professor of Warwick University-  outlined three points currently shaping the discourse on monetary surveillance: financial data, payment interfaces and platform sovereignty. Financial data, or what Tkacz called  “ the perverse rise of surveillance as a service”, is actively re-entering our daily payments and financial  transactions. [...]

Cooperatives and the Commons

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Katía Truijen Sabine Niederer, director of CREATE-IT, introduced the first speaker Trebor Scholz, who has coined the term platform cooperativism. Scholz is a scholar-activist and associate professor for Culture & Media at The New School in New York City. Developing an analysis of the challenges posed by digital labor, he introduced the concept of [...]

Fiscal Drag Live

By Leila, December 6, 2016

By Leila Ueberschlag and Max Dovey The University of the Phoenix On the evening of December 1st, the living (not-yet-dead) participants of MoneyLab #3 were invited to a special event during the evening program. They attended the first eulogy for excellence convocation celebration hosted by the University of the Phoenix, the top-ranked nomadic for-prophet business [...]