22 Caroline Woolard

Regenerative Baking #22: Caroline Woolard on Barter Networks and the Solidarity Economy

 

Headshot: Levi Mandel

How can the scaffolding and infrastructure of our world be repurposed to build a better future? How can social practice art open avenues for collaboration and and cooperation? This episode features an interview with Caroline Woolard, an artist, educator and technologist who's currently the Head of Strategy at Pollinator.coop. We discuss her past and current projects, all of which focus on building networks between people in one way or another, glimpsing alternative economies. 

Links:

Historical materialism
Political economy
Community engagement
Social practice
Systems-oriented framework

Austin Kleon - Pointing at Things (Substack)

MoMA Exchange Cafe

Milk Not Jails

The Feral Trade Network
Kate Rich

OurGoods

Trade School

Art.coop
Solidarity economy movement
Sociocratic model

Pollinator

Tenthaus, ruangrupa, Mondragon Team Academy

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