Denise Thwaites

Published in blocumenta

·Dec 5, 2019

Foraged Stories: Planting the Seeds of a Story Economy in Haig Park

What happens when a local community library is designed to echo the dynamic and cooperative processes of a community garden? Foraged Stories prototypes a local story economy to explore methods of unearthing and cultivating seeds of memory, history and desire that circulate through an urban forest. This creative research has…

Education

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Foraged Stories: Planting the Seeds of a Story Economy in Haig Park

Education

9 min read

Published in blocumenta

·Oct 31, 2019

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: What We Learn from Thrifty DAO Redeployment

by Denise Thwaites and James Simbouras — Failure and iteration are integral dimensions of experimentation. So far, 2019 has seen a boom in DAO experiments: quick iteration in these low-risk environments is what is needed to move the space forward. But such processes imply waste — the detritus of systems and apparatus that fizzled or finished being…

Blockchain

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: What We Learn from Thrifty DAO Redeployment

Blockchain

6 min read

Published in blocumenta

·Jul 2, 2019

Blocumenta ⁠ — Who We Are, Why We’re Here.

Blocumenta is an experimental and community-driven arts project that explores the promise and challenges of decentralisation for arts and culture. In particular it considers the role of ‘peripheral’ stakeholders and communities in destabilising the centralised value systems that have long plagued the contemporary art world. Over the past half-decade, the…

Blockchain

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Blocumenta ⁠ — Who We Are, Why We’re Here.

Blockchain

3 min read