MARKUS:

Charlie Hailey: Camps
In Camps, Charlie Hailey explores camps as concrete forms various social issues.

Other recommendations from Markus:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/index.php
http://www.vice.com/read/republic-of-frestonia-tony-sleep-032
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand


KATHARINA:

Demos Helsinki and WWF
The politics of happiness explores the relationships between economic growth and happiness. And how shared responsibility and shared experiences could create meaningfull well-being. http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/politics_of_happiness.pdf

Fuad-Luke Alastair
Design activism’s teleological freedoms as a means to transform our habitus Looks at the differencies between Design aktivism and social design. It underlines the meaning of design as a way to shape different social and ecological realities.


ADRIÀ:

Transition Design as Postindustrial Interaction Design?
what could Transition Design -mean and be?

“Transition design proposes design led societal transition towards more sustainable futures. It applies an understanding of the interconnectedness of social, economic, political and natural systems to address problems that exist at all levels of scale in ways that improve quality of life.”

https://medium.com/@camerontw/transition-design-as-postindustrial-interaction-design-6c8668055e8d#.z0iz6rl1z


HANNA AND RASMUS:

A short text Hanna and Rasmus wrote some days ago which focuses more specifically on the relationship between tech-power and territory/land.

https://project-soil.earth/

Hanna and Rasmus are working a lot with Ethereum and different blockchain technologies. These texts are an introduction to that:

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e#.n347yvd5c

https://medium.com/@urbit/design-of-a-digital-republic-f2b6b3109902#.j2hii8mxa
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/01/23/superrationality-daos/