“People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. . . . We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and...
Welcome to the new DisCO Website! Here to accompany you through the Burning 20's and beyond. When we launched the DisCO Manifesto back in the autumn of 2019 we needed an online space to share it and give some context. We had already secured the DisCO.coop domain and...
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...
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...
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...
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 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:...
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...
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...
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...