Funding the Commons Forum: Berlin 2025

In the shadow of State censorship and algorithmic homogenization, cultural memory is a contested field between resisting communities and extractive elites. Inspired by The Sphere's work on anarchiving, this panel explores memory as a vector of collective formation that shapes not just what we preserve, but who we become together. Adopting the affordances of decentralized technologies like IPFS...

Liberal democracies are everywhere on the way out. Tyranny seems to be the order of the day. Yet progressive and even centrist democratic forces seem to lose ground. This has three main reasons: For one, the new tyrannies are still poorly understood, especially regarding their media-technological foundations. Secondly, the implication of progressive and leftist politics in its own decline is not...

It's problem-solving time! We experience a number of shared problems in privacy and decentralization. Let's explore common solutions! This workshop prototypes a new game developed by the Decent Patterns open UX library. We present a card game with problems and design patterns, participants are asked to draw cards and develop a solution story. We team up, present back, mix and match, and iterate!The...

Vibecoding isn't just a fun way to quickly code flight simulators, it's also the native abstraction layer for designing governance mechanisms.

▇▇ Workshop details and track record: https://nezhynska.com/brand-lab If you experience any of the problems below, this workshop will give you the knowledge and tools to tackle them with glory and fire:you launched your product. People visit your website but no one tries out your demo or creates an accountyou thought you were the only one on the market, but suddenly there...

A practical introduction to Microsolidarity: building communities of belonging and mutual aidHow do we cultivate wholesome spaces that foster trust, care and belonging? How can we sustainably support each other by surfacing our needs and gifts? How do we weave social fabric and build regenerative, resilient communities? These and other questions will guide us in this interactive workshop on the...

Do you want to demo your project and get feedback? Did a brilliant idea strike you during the first day of FtC, and now you want to find people to share it with? Does the burning topic of internet freedom and privacy call you to talk about it with others? Join the Tomorrow Day -- an open space for emergent workshop sessions by everyone, where your input shapes the agenda and fuels creative...

This roundtable discusses the intersection of the network state movement and Web3 communities to uncover, examine, and critique its neo-colonial character. While popup villages, edge cities, and local nodes are perceived as bottom-up initiatives by the Web3 community, their interlinkages with the network state movement evoke a critical perspective. Venture capital-backed network states not only...

This workshop invites participants to explore political economy as a design space rather than a set of fixed ideologies, using five key variables: ownership structure, resource allocation mechanism, decision-making authority, distribution model, and relationship to global economy. By examining how different configurations of these variables create known systems like neoliberalism, ones based on...

Slow down, enjoy a gongfu tasting of high-grade Oolongs, and imagine yourself in the shade of the towering redwoods. The Tea Tent is a secret highlight of DWeb Camp and this our way of bringing it to you — just a taste.

This roundtable is a discussion that takes a deeper look at the political and economic realities of building blockchains with technical veterans in the space who will share the realities of it. If blockchains are ideally one of the most resilient technical infrastructures that facilitate economic interaction we have, it’s important to understand how it interplays with the political economic...

In this fast-paced, maker-led session we’ll take stock of today’s public-goods funding rails, surface the hardest blockers builders face, and co-design the next wave of experiments—from a lean “Commons Guild” core to open-mentorship hackathons. Come share your pain points, imagine 2028’s coordination wins, and leave having shaped the future of Funding the Commons and the Commonslab -...

In this workshop we will together discursively “build” our own blockchains based on weird political economies that are based on the framework developed by Nick Houde and Joshua Dávila.

What if crypto communities and local creators co-owned the platforms they use? In this 30-minute hands-on workshop, we’ll co-develop the blueprint for a simple tech coop—covering business models, member benefits, funding options (from shares to subsidies), governance structures, and the legal steps to actually launch. Whether you’re a DAO builder or grassroots innovator, join us to turn...

Dana is inviting you to sit and be with sounds to integrate, activate, illuminate, what was and is present. She is sensing what is in the field and is translating that into sound, touching deeply, connecting deeper with oneself, landing in the body, allowing to take a moment of being present and letting the sounds move through the field and the body. Entering soundscapes to travel in inner...

Today, we’re seeing blockchain used in the real world to deliver humanitarian aid, support sustainable development, and pilot decentralized funding models. From digital wallets for displaced communities to SDG-aligned funding and municipal innovation portfolios in Eastern Europe, these experiments are emerging across radically different systems. But what makes it possible to innovate across...

This roundtable is a discussion between Simone Robutti (Tech Workers Coalition), Sam McCarthy (DAOstar and LaborDAO), and Magdalena Ziomek (SMART Coop) where we will discuss the current realities of labor in building out alternatives to exploitative working conditions. Keeping in mind the theme of Adaptive Resilience, we are interested in seeing how alternative labor structures like cooperatives,...