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Komma is a venture collective utilising applied research, artistic inquiry and real-world demonstration to shift collective imagination on how we value, own and care for what is held in common.
Our action is made possible through place-based partnerships with citizens, municipalities, philanthropy and the private sector to develop experiments, products and tools that conceptualise a new civics catalysed by decentralised technology.
Our Approach
Inverting Civic Wealth
Supporting communities through co-designing innovative economic tools to enhance control over housing and land ownership. Pooled funding, community-driven exit strategies, multi-capital currencies, and bioregional banking reshape how wealth flows within neighborhoods and interconnected communities.
Modernising Agreements
Crafting modular and automated governance, policy and legal frameworks that redefine how communities own and care. We work to implement interoperable organisational models to create scalable systems that meet evolving needs.
Cultivating Playful Rituals
Integrating governance into everyday life through the human-centric design. Including sociocratic decision-making, digital coordination tools, and innovative hardware to enhance collective collaboration by smoothly connecting digital and physical spaces.
Initiatives
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The Collective
Our collaborators bring together deep expertise across organisational design, agreements frameworks, financing tools, decentralised technologies, token engineering, and collective governance, with experience leading organisations, and working alongside leading institutions, who are advancing equitable, commons-based civic action.
Charlie works on practical demonstrations of decentralised technologies for enhancing the delivery of affordable housing and commons-based landholding. As a researcher, founder, and project advisor, he ran an architecture practice for a decade, and was a key advisor on large scale new housing developments in England. In 2022 he co-founded Oasa, a Swiss token-issuer for networked land projects.
Clara is a consultant, researcher and business operator on decentralised technologies. With a background in Architecture she developed regenerative housing projects, incubated cooperative housing projects, advised on affordable housing policy making to municipalities in Barcelona and manages operations at a decentralized tech workers cooperative.
Bradley Clark Royes
Bradley is a strategic designer and innovator working at the intersection of culture, AI-native systems, and human-centered technology. He leads AI Builders Berlin as Community Director & DevRel and co-founded experience design collective seks.design, blending applied research with grassroots organizing and urban rituals.
Livia Deschermayer
Livia is an artist and published social researcher in the field of token engineering with over six years of practice on decentralized ecosystems within topics of governance, culture and incentivization. Her contributions include designing social system protocols and leading the Cultural Build initiative at Commons Stack.
Jeff Emmett
Jeff is a researcher and technical writer at BlockScience. Along with Michael Zargham & Griff Green, he co-founded the Commons Stack to build out a toolkit of modular components that can be used for polycentric governance of DAO ecosystems. He is involved in multiple open research initiatives into novel resource allocation patterns like bonding curves and conviction voting that could facilitate a future of data-driven algorithmic policy and computer-aided governance.
Advisors
Our advisory board provides strategic guidance and expertise to support our mission.
Caroline Paulick-Thiel
Caroline is a strategic designer and expert in transformative public sector innovation. Trained in Design and Public Policy, she has extensive experience in participatory processes and innovative policy to address public challenges. She co-founded Politics for Tomorrow, and facilitates societal transformation processes in collaboration with political-administrative institutions from the local to the highest federal level in Germany and internationally.