This is the story of the collective experience shared by a number of self-organised groups based around Berlin during the workshop Dancing on Moss: DisCO underground regenerative economix, celebrated at Moos Space in January 2023. The DisCO team, Sari Escribano, Ela...
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Carework: the heart of good governance
This article has been written by Alex Soto, a collaborative team facilitator, organizational culture consultant, social entrepreneurship mentor and great friend of DisCO. He is currently exploring distributed cooperative structures, dynamic governance models based on...
Love in the Middle of a Firefight: DisCO’s most played tracks of 2022
Look out, honey, 'cause I'm using technology Ain't got time to make no apology Soul radiation in the dead of night Love in the middle of a firefight. Iggy and the Stooges. Search and Destroy. (Listen here) Has 2022 been a weird year for you? That's OK, things are...
Decentralised Governance: either a collective learning journey or no journey at all!
As part of the Regens Unite Conference (September 16-17, 2022) in Berlin, Ela Kagel (SUPERMARKT Berlin & Platform Cooperatives Germany) and Irene Lopez de Vallejo (DisCO.Coop), offered a workshop on decentralised governance to the Regens community. The main...
The Open Source Conspiracy
The design of structures does not on its own bring about change. They need a pluriverse of counter-cultures informing their design and implementation. DisCOs are a new form of collective organizing for functioning, collapse-ready, and future-proof economies. By:...
Not about me; all about “we”
Regens Unite, a DisCOnaut reports from the front line of regenerative action. Regens Unite events are an invitation, a call to spend days and nights devoted to bringing communities and individuals together to share and learn from one another. Regens Unite is also a...
Meet the New Bros – Same as the Old Bros?
By Ann Marie Utratel and Stacco Troncoso. Originally published in Bot Populi. People have been taking to Web 3.0 while looking for alternatives to dominant forms of predatory and destructive capitalism. But does Web 3.0 have the same power structures and logics that...
Inevitable Decay: Feeding the Soul of DisCOs and the Emerging Economy
This article has been written by Caitlin Cole. The natural rise and fall of systems, economies and powers are inevitable. We have seen this happen through history with the Greeks, the Romans, the Church, India [1], but they all had one thing in common; huge...
DisCO FAILZ at Capitalism
This article has been written by Timothy McKeon. If you ever needed a wake-up call about the dangers of capitalism, the past year is sure to have delivered. Though it is exciting and inspiring to see more and more people standing up against the greed, racism, violence...
Dance it Yourself: a 7 DisCO Principles Builder
So, you want to create a DisCO? You've come to the right place! The only conditions are that: You don't do it alone; it takes two to tango, but at least three to DisCO. They are designed for collectives, not individuals. You find creative ways to address the 7 DisCO...