IDEIAZOKA. A MARKET OF REBOUNDING IDEAS
Contributors: Platoniq
Within the frame of the programme for innovation Disonancias, Ideazoka is Market of Ideas produced by Platoniq and the Department for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Mondragon. Ideazoka wants to be a meeting point and a space for public participation where cooperatives and companies, students, researchers, workers, early retired people and citizens will contact echa other to create a map of opportunities and mutual collaborations.
Research commissioned
To design an "environment" where activities aimed at the developemt of creative, innovative and entrepreneurial abilities are encouraged in the short to medium term for engineering students,... Read more
Venture Communism
Contributors: Telekommunisten
Platoniq interviews Dmytri Kleiner, from Telekommunisten (1)
1. What are the origins of your project? When did it start? What were the main goals?
The Telekommunisten project was launched on May 1st, 2006, the main goals of the project to create a worker's collective to serve as the first "venture communist" company, putting into practice the results of my research in to alternative economics.
We want to launch a worker-owned company that provides internet and telephone service and earns enough to employ us, provide the financial basis for our political and artistic production as well.
We have had one product, Dialstation, in beta-testing all year, and May 1st, 2008, two years after we announced the project, we hope to start to building our user base and working towards... Read more
Redes de Trueque
Contributors: Heloisa Primavera
Platoniq entrevista a Heloisa Primavera (Argentina) (1)
1. Hace décadas que existen redes de trueque de distinta índole en varias partes del mundo, y muchas de ellas se han originado en países desarrollados y con una tasa de bienestar relativamente alta (Canadá, Estados Unidos...). Paralelamente, otras sociedades y países con una situación económica mucho más extrema también han dado lugar a manifestaciones de redes de trueque parecidas, como en el caso de Argentina que tan bien conoces. ¿Crees que un entorno de conflicto social y grave crisis económica (como el de Argentina a finales de los 90)da otra dimensión a estas redes de intercambio alternativo? ¿En qué se diferencia el desarrollo de estos fenómenos en ambos entornos?
Estoy sólo parcialmente de acuerdo con la... Read more
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