Wirtschaft & Verantwortung
A Decentralized Right to Breathe?
"A Decentralized Right to Breathe," explores the potential for web3 and SocialTech to empower marginalized communities suffering from breathing injustices. By creating community-based financial ecosystems and a network of activists, LoPh aims to build a decentralized future of rights that breaks away from hyper-capitalist modes of extraction.
The future of law and governance is being designed right now - not in parliaments, courts, or law schools, but in web3. Indeed, one of the most-heralded promises web3 holds is decentralization and thus, per the claim, democratization through the elimination of intermediaries and centralized powers. Blockchain-based community DAOs and smart cities, startup societies, and network states are increasingly considered as viable alternatives to traditional entities, both public and private. While such models are presented as carrying the potential of distributing value differently, ideally more equally and democratically, they are also big business, yet again running the risk of re-centralizing wealth and property. In addition, what is absent from developments within web3 is the question of civil and human rights, a realm historically a prerogative of the centralized state.
LoPh’s “Decentralized Right to Breathe” addresses this gap by actively working on the increasingly digitalized future of rights, no less in the face of climate change, hyper-financialization, and political conflict. Rather than dictating abstract norms “from above,” we leverage the potential of web3 and SocialTech to empower disadvantaged communities suffering from breathing injustices, by building self-determining financial ecosystems and creating a decentralized network of activists for the future.
The questions we address at the dawn of web3 are: Can justice and breathable atmospheres be incentives for private and public stakeholders? If so, can we break from hyper-capitalist modes of extraction by community-based practices of value creation and distribution? Can practices of commoning – the sharing of resources and modes of living – create the social-material fabric of a decentralized right to breathe? At Re:publica, we wish to share with the audience real-world approaches towards these questions, and invite all to participate in our shared responsibility towards a breathable future.
Additional information
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| Language | English |
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Location: Gather.Town This short documentary describes the impact of the Winter 2022-23 energy crisis on independent bakeries in Germany, Poland and France. As the crisis and the cold bite, these small businesses, which are central to their communities, experience uncertainty, anxiety and expense.
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Location: Badeschiff Wir haben weltweit ein Problem von durch Menschen verursachter Wasserverschmutzung. Täglich landen viele Tonnen Plastik, Iindustrielle Abwasser oder Sonnencreme in unser Meeren, Seen und Flüssen. Der Teppich floating wool greift diese Problematik auf und versteht sich als textile Installation und zugleich Filter im Wasser.
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Location: Arena Club – Media Parcours How can generative soundscape composition enable different perspectives on forests in an era of planetary crisis? The forestscapes listening lab explores how sound can serve as a medium for collective inquiry into forests as living cultural landscapes.
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Location: Walkingact – Outdoor Zwischen Vergeudung, Selbstreflexion und Sinnsuche: Wofür verprasst Du eigentlich Dein Geld? Und warum? An unserem Fensterrahmen laden wir Dich ein, der Sache im Selbstversuch auf den Grund zu gehen: Wie gut fühlt es sich an? Woher kommt Dein Geld und wohin soll es fliegen?
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Was haben Klos mit einer nachhaltigen Zukunft zu tun? Warum schmecken Tomaten, die mit Nährstoffen aus menschlichem Urin gedüngt wurden, der Erde besonders gut? Erlebe die Vision der Sanitär- und Nährstoffwende selbst im Loo:topia Garten – an und mit spannenden Experimenten, Exponaten, Austausch- und Mitmach-Formaten rund um Klos und Kreisläufe.
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... Dann komm an der Home Base vorbei, sprich mit unserer Nachhaltigkeitsmanagerin Nantjen Küsel und erfahre mehr darüber.
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Loctaion: Gather.Town Subsight investigates the dynamics of the current attention economy and displays a variety of attempts toward a possible subversion. From Watch To Donate to generating Tabs for a Cause, the research unfolds concrete ways in which viewers can redirect attention in order to participate in wealth and attention redistribution.
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