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Flexible institutions for a fast-changing world
The time has come to convert the public administrations into flexible, distributed spaces with a shared purpose and meaning.
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Supporting a city in the prefiguration of a Third Place
At the beginning of 2018, we assisted the city of Marmande and the Val de Garonne tourist office in the prefiguration of a hybrid venue dedicated to the future of festivals on a 40,000m2 industrial wasteland. This prefiguration phase aimed to define the conditions of feasibility and success of the project, to launch a community while proposing a pre-operational scenario. Abandoned since 2009, this wasteland is destined to become a place of emergence for the creative industries.
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Morning OS: Uncovering the town of Bagnolet
A new start and project awaits Ouishare’s Paris team thanks to Morning OS, a newly-converted coworking space in the city’s outskirts that we plan to bring to life. With our boxes unpacked and ambitions ignited; we want to bring together collectives and projects that accelerate urban transformation in the Parisian outskirts.
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Wie grün, wie nachhaltig, wie dynamisch … ist die Sharing Economy?
Dies waren die zentralen drei Fragen des drei-jährigen Forschungsprojektes “PeerSharing – Internetgestützte Geschäftsmodelle für gemeinschaftlichen Konsum als Beitrag zum nachhalti-gen Wirtschaften“ welches das Teilen von Privat zu Privat (Peer-to-Peer Sharing) untersuchte.
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Holochain: the beginnings of a brave new internet (2/2)
An in-depth exploration of how holochain is building a more human internet. One that puts its users at the center.
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Fixing the internet: how holochain wants to change the way we interact
Let us start with a rather simple but necessary statement: The internet is as amazing as it is dreadful. It is time to fix it, make it more human, and holochain wants to be this tool.
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To Scandinavia and beyond: how a learning expedition fostered a community around mobility
As part of the Mobility as Networks study made by Le Lab Ouishare X Chronos, 16 partners and eight team members went on a five-day Learning Expedition through three Scandinavian cities to meet and get inspired by the actors designing the mobility of tomorrow.
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Creating safe spaces: how re-designing an office can lead to new ways of collaboration
A leading automotive company in Germany wanted its employees to design their new office in a collaborative way. To help them achieve this, Ouishare created a safe space for workers to solve internal problems and develop a collaborative culture.
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How basic income can change the way we think about work (and money)
What would you do if you got 1.000 euros per month, no strings attached? Would you quit your job? Pay your debts? Save enough money to travel around the world? Would you start your own business? Would you do some volunteer work?
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Partager le pouvoir et la valeur : vers un nouveau récit autour des plateformes collaboratives
En mars 2017, nous publions l’étude « Gouvernances » issue d'un an et demi de recherches sur les manières dont les plateformes de l’économie collaborative peuvent proposer à leurs contributeurs non salariés d'être consultés sur les décisions clés et de détenir une partie du capital.
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BlockChain, The platform for trust and social scalability
How exactly is the blockchain expected to change our economy? It is less about removing the middleman than automating its function: providing trust. And coincidentally, it also challenges the existence of omnipresent brands.
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Concrete examples for utopian ideals: how the Sharing Cities movement is paving the way
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