Source: Distributed Design
“This is Distributed Design” is the fourth of a series of yearly publications developed within the Distributed Design Platform.
In the format of a book and a documentary “This is Distributed Design” presents the state-of-the-art in the field, discusses future directions and lays a foundation for the advancement of digital design and fabrication.
Established in 2017 and co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union, the Platform brings together a diverse member-base from cultural and creative institutions including Fab Labs, cultural organisations, universities and makerspaces. It aims to support and connect creatives, designers, makers, and innovators to participate in the creation of a new model of production and consumption – envisioning a world in which “bits travel globally, while atoms stay local.” Over the past four years, the Platform has provided Europe-wide programming and opportunities to support emerging creatives working in the emerging field of Distributed Design.
Source: Distributed Design
Collaboratively governed and code-driven, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are engaged in nothing less than an experiment to reimagine how we connect, collaborate and create. Although DAOs today manage billions of dollars’ worth of assets, engage millions of contributors and operate across industries as diverse as finance and philanthropy, basic questions regarding operations, governance, law and policy are only just beginning to be addressed by policy-makers, regulators and entrepreneurs. The result of a collaboration involving more than 100 experts spanning the public and private sectors, the DAO Toolkit provides resources for developers, policy-makers and other stakeholders seeking to engage with the DAO ecosystem.
Source: World Economic Forum
“From Commons to NFTs” is an (expanded) writing series initiated by Shu Lea Cheang, Felix Stalder & Ewen Chardronnet. Cautioned by the speculative bubble (burst) of NFTs, the series brings back the notion of commons from around the turn of the millennium to reflect upon and intervene in the transformation of the collective imagination and its divergent futures. Every last day of the month Makery publishes a new contribution of these “chain essays”. Fourth text by Denis ‘Jaromil’ Roio.
“The most powerful forces, those that interest us the most, are not in a specular and negative relation to modernity, to the contrary they move on transversal trajectories. On this basis we shouldn’t conclude that they oppose everything that is modern and rational, but that are engaged in creating new forms of rationality and new forms of liberation.”
– Negri and Hardt, 2010, “Commonwealth”
Since Bitcoin has broken the taboo on money about 10 years ago a lot has happened in the crypto space, in this brief essay I will explore some techno-political devices and promises that are staged today. I draw my insights and intuitions from an early involvement in the cypherpunk underground subculture. In this context I have written and advised the development of code in Bitcoin core, I have almost accidentally written what became the Bitcoin Manifesto and I have published early forks of the Bitcoin code. It was just the beginning of Bitcoin’s success when a few of us predicted “alt-coins” would soon appear: I was then among the first people to use the term “blockchain” to indicate the technical stack that empowered Bitcoin’s growth of a decentralized network at a planetary scale and envisioned its evolution in non-financial use-cases in the fields of energy, art and notarization.
Read the full article on here on makery.info.