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Public fridges with free food, community-supported agriculture, borrowing shops and knowledge-sharing: the German capital is at the forefront of a whole new system of trade

For years, the venture capital industry has lavished money on Silicon Valley and Asia. Now, Europe is getting some love.

We are happy to announce the third GETDecentralized Summit and Hackathon, that will happen again in Berlin on 10 & 11 October 2015!

Just back from the Ubiquitous Commons workshop at transmediale Festival in Berlin. Here are the slides from the workshop, with a framing of the concept of Ubiquitous Commons, a series of examples a...

“r0g_agency is a Berlin-based collaborative enterprise for open culture and critical transformation initiated in 2012 and founded as a non-profit company in September 2013 by Stephen Kovats and Susanne Bellinghausen, along with a small group of open culture specialists active in locations worldwide.

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that studies how people and cities interact in a rapidly urbanising world, focussing on how the design of cities impacts on society, culture and the environment. Through research, conferences, teaching and projects, the centre aims to shape new thinking and practice on how to make cities fairer and more sustainable for the next generation of urban dwellers, who will make up some 70 per cent of the global population by 2050.

Life-size bronze statues of Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning were unveiled in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz Square as an homage to their bravery and the courage of whistleblowers worldwide.

Join us at the transmediale festival in Berlin from Jan. 28th to Feb. 1st, in Berlin, at the HKW to experience Stakhanov and a workshop on the Ubiquitous Commons. In the Ubiquitous Commons workshop...