Enabled by the new Finnish cooperative law’s flexibility towards new economic and governance forms, Robin Hood Cooperative is transforming into one of the world’s first coops on blockchain.
From social media to economic media? Social media horizontalized our communication, but left the information & protocol layer called the economy untouched. Could we reimagine finance in order to create different socialities?
‘DeFi’ is a hot topic in the cryptospace but often reproduces conventional finance and capitalist organizations, as in the case of Bitcoin. Could DeFi be used also to create non-exploitative forms of production and risking-together?
What have we learned from platform co-operatives, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and other recent experiments in governance? Could we think governance as a game or as a grammar? Or as a place of creation and play?
