This thread will be a space for speakers in the upcoming Festival of Value series to post questions they might have on Anoma, scale free money & the implications of intents.
(More will be said on the Festival of Values series in another Community thread.- suffice to say, it will be an online lecture and discussion series in the second half of October to discuss the implications of intents for alternative economics, decentralized governance, and ecological ethics ).
For OGs of the Anoma Research Forum who might be able to field questions - please watch this space!
Thanks for organizing this! Looking forward to participating and learning from the other presenters.
My name is Spencer Saar Cavanaugh and I’m a governance specialist and consultant, with a special interest in digital public infrastructure. This presentation series caught my interest because I’ve seen how low-fidelity governance can be when everyone’s input is reduced to some single quantitative dimension, and I’m curious to see some possible qualitative alternatives, perhaps having to do with signaling intents.
Looking forward to learning and presenting at the Festival of Values - thank you for organising @Exeunt!
Here’s my topic:
Gardens of Value, Spaces of Care: Plural Economies for Collective Wellbeing
Plural economies are not just technical abstractions - they are lived experiments in how communities sustain themselves. In this talk, I will share insights from nebula.garden, a platform weaving global dialogues on regenerative economies and social change, and from JOY Collective e.V., a community-driven healing arts nonprofit and community space in Berlin. Both projects seek to reimagine value as care, creativity, and community-powered resilience.
Building on these practices, I will explore how systems design can move beyond efficiency toward alignment and equal energy exchange, creating infrastructures where contributions and needs are met in balance. In dialogue with Anoma’s intent-centric architecture, we will ask: how might protocols support cultural production, community wellbeing, and distributed carework? What would it mean for economic infrastructures to honor joy, healing, and collective flourishing as essential forms of value?
Hello everyone! I’m happy to be sharing a space with you all
My name is Pablo. I am a designer, coder and artist living between Europe and Mexico. I’ve been tangentially involved in the distributed computing space for around 10 years, both through my artistic research work and by collaborating with some post-blockchain DLT projects. In the past I contributed to neighbourhoods.network(holochain-based groupware for communities) and now I’ve been working with the Economic Space Agency (ECSA), an economic technology and imagination network for distributed economic agency. I am also a member of the Crypto Commons Association (CCA) and a usual dweller of the Collaborative Finance (CoFi) gatherings at the Commons Hub in Austria.
The project I’m bringing into the Festival of Value is pocas (poca organización colaborativa de auto-servicio), a research and speculation project at the intersection of distributed computing and alternative economies. It is inspired by centuries of self-governance, mutual aid and self-organization, as well as decades of free software, p2p networks, cryptography & distributed ledgers.
Pocas came to be as a way for me to make sense of the farfetched implications and ideas at the radical outskirts of the web3, p2p spaces. As a narrative device to organize this research, pocas uses economic science-fiction to imagine the culture and systems of a network of autonomous mutualist spaces set in an alternative version of contemporary Mexico City. Pocas are a ‘mutualist mutation’ that appropriates some of the characteristics of the capitalist self-service convenience store. My interest is to speculate on how these technologies can scale the coordination of mutual aid, solidarity and local economies to provide a competitive alternative to capitalism by making old and new mutualist economic practices viable, efficient and convenient. In the process, it maps the existing organizations, practices and technologies that could make this a reality today.
So what I’ll be doing is a speculation exercise on potential use-cases of Anoma’s intents for pocas, in a sort of ‘fictitious integration’ into the pocas network toolbox. In the process Anoma and the intent architecture becomes part of the mapping of technologies that could make pocas a reality! Early explorations are already very exciting, I’m compiling another post with some potential directions to flesh out further :D, I’ll share more on it soon!
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