Posts By: patricia

The MoneyLab Reader is now available!

By patricia, April 21, 2015

The print edition of the MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy is now available. The E-Pub of the Reader will follow shortly. Get your copy here. The MoneyLab Reader brings developments in crowdfunding, currency design, technologies of payment, and other economic experiments into dialogue. The authors of this volume discuss the implications of the current architecture of global [...]
The MoneyLab team and the Design Thinkers Group is organising...

MoneyLab at the Dutch Design Week

By patricia, October 16, 2014

The MoneyLab team and the Design Thinkers Group is organising a design battle in March 2015. In preparation of this battle, we are organising a (invite only) prototype design fiction brainstorm this Monday the 20th at the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. What does money look like in 2030? We realize our current financial system [...]
Digital Cash! A two-day conference on the past and future...

Digital Cash Conference at UCLA, 27-28 September 2014

By patricia, September 19, 2014

Digital Cash! A two-day conference on the past and future of electronic payment at UCLA, September 27-28, 2014 in Decafe, Perloff Hall. Today’s discussions about electronic currency often focus on the obsolescence of traditional institutions such as the federal reserves and credit companies. It’s said that the old world of brick and mortar banks, paper [...]

In Art We Trust: The Art Reserve Bank

By patricia, April 25, 2014

By David Golumbia The Kunst Reserve Bank was one of a number of projects presented at MoneyLab a conference held last month in Amsterdam that launched the latest research thread from the Institute of Network Cultures.  The conference was set up to consider “digital experiments with revenue models, payment systems and currencies… and critically explore, map and probe the [...]

The Institute of Network Cultures presents: MoneyLab: Coining Alternatives

By patricia, October 11, 2013

Over the past few years, while the economic downturn endures and budget cuts prevail, we have witnessed the emergence and rise of alternative payment systems and revenue models in digital media. Online bartering sites, a plethora of crowdfunding platforms, new forms of valuation, e-wallets and crypto-currencies like Bitcoin, are but a few examples. These coincide with the huge growth [...]