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<strong class="">The futures for currency, token and economic exchanges as they pertain to cultural and social exchange, community and design.</strong>
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<h2 class="text-body-large hide-small"></h2></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><strong class="">FOUNDATIONS: TOKEN</strong></div><p class=""><strong class="">SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 12-2PM EST (NY time)</strong></p><p class="">SPEAKERS: JILLIAN CRANDALL, INTE GLOERICH, XAVIER BALAGUER RASILLO</p><p class="">Free event - registration required.</p><div class=""><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foundations-token-tickets-188516747667" class="">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foundations-token-tickets-188516747667</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the <strong class="">TOKEN</strong>
session, speakers will present a range of work on the ideological
foundations, theoretical suppositions, and empirical observations of
cryptocurrency, blockchains, NFTs, and distributed ledger technologies
on space, design, and culture. Inte Gloerich will discuss blockchain
imaginaries as an emerging cultural force, deconstructing its rhetoric
of mystical fascination, and exploring its power as a tool in
speculative design and utopian visioning connected to theoretical
underpinnings ranging from posthumanism to quantum entanglement. Jillian
Crandall will raise the question - who has the power to dream - when
discussing the empirical realities of crypto-utopia in Puerto Rico,
where crypto-colonialism is driving an economic re-visioning of the
territory, contested by feminist and grassroots groups with alternate
techno-economic visions. Xavier Balaguer Rasillo further explores how
grassroots organizations can harness the power of the digital to
construct alternate economic post-capitalist futures in his critical
look at the case of FairCoin in Catalonia, highlighting the challenges
and pitfalls of crypto and the so-called “potential” of blockchain.
Together the panel will question how crypto and blockchains convene
publics in virtual and physical space; how distributed technologies
materialize geographically with significant environmental, urban, and
social impacts; and how tokens and blockchains are not just a utility or
service, but also a theoretical tool that reframes how we think about
value, chipping away at cracks in existing structural foundations and
potentially reconstructing the foundations for more equitable design
futures.</div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class=""><strong class="">Jillian Crandall</strong></p><p class="">Jillian
Crandall is a registered architect, urbanist, and researcher
investigating the effects of digital technologies on infrastructure,
space, and lives. Her recent work published in Design and Culture and
Political Geography focuses on the urban impacts of blockchain,
crypto-colonialism, and digital inequality. Jillian is an advocate for
digital equity, spatial justice, and design justice, which are the aims
of her critical urban research and design practice, CONTRA+. She teaches
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture in Troy, NY.</p><div class=""><strong class="">Inte Gloerich</strong></div><p class="">Inte
Gloerich is a researcher working on the politics, artistic imagination,
and (counter)cultures surrounding digital technology and economy. Since
2015, her work at the Institute of Network Cultures predominantly
focuses on the affordances and cultures associated with blockchain and
other financial technologies. In 2020, this topic became the focus of
her PhD project at Utrecht University. Previously, she co-edited
MoneyLab Reader 2: Overcoming the Hype (with Geert Lovink and Patricia
de Vries) and State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of
Digital Citizenship (with Yiannis Colakides and Marc Garrett). Inte
teaches at the MA New Media & Digital Culture and the BA Media &
Information at the University of Amsterdam.</p><div class=""><strong class="">Xavier Balaguer Rasillo</strong></div><p class="">Xavier
B. Rasillo is a researcher working in the University of Zurich in the
field of economic geography and its intersection with political economy,
sociology and political ecology. In his PhD, he is investigating how
grassroots organisations from Spain have been building alternative
economies and digital commons. He is particularly interested in how
activist and grassroots groups have been trying to harness digital
technologies towards post-capitalist transformation. Xavier also teaches
human and economic geography at the University of Zurich.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class=""><strong class="">FOUNDATIONS</strong> is a series of events, convened by Carla
Leitao, at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual
Pavilion, Sezione del Padiglione Italia, as part of the "Space and
Planetary Design" group under the Creative Directorship of Ed Keller.
The Virtual Italian Pavilion curated by Tom Kovac, RMIT University and
Alessandro Melis Portsmouth University titled CITYX Venice responds to
‘How will we live together?' curated by Hashim Sarkis MIT, organized by
La Biennale di Venezia. The exhibition is open until the 21st of
November.</p><p class="">@cityxvenice </p><p class="">#italianvirtualpavillion #cityxvenice #ivp2021 #labiennaledivenezia #IVP3” </p></div></body></html>