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For their project at Casco Swop Network have met with a number of Utrecht-based self-organised groups that are working with alternative economic systems, such as gift economies and models of free distribution. At Casco they will organise a program of collaborative workshops and discussions that will lead into the production of a digital story space, creating large, complex hypertexts that are easy to link, revise and reorganise, allowing one to record ideas in virtually any medium (text, image, sound, video), and reposition, revise, and shape them into final form. Extracts from the story space will be edited into GRATIS, a free newspaper that will be published as a counter public to the existing free newspapers such as Metro and Spits – also freely distributed but driven by advertising revenue and the commercialisation of information rather than gift. GRATIS will be distributed through the same channels as the existing free newspapers in Utrecht and beyond. Swop Network will also conduct a gleaning tour in which they will collect food that would have otherwise gone to waste for a food evening at Casco. Program: 13-15 May: Workshops with local groups working with gift economies to produce a story space and the free newspaper, GRATIS May 16 – June 17: Presentation of ‘Story Space on Gift Economies’ Tuesday June 6: Launch of free newspaper GRATIS Gleaning tour and food evening More information on the project, including a link to the digital story space, can be found on: http://www.swopnetwork.dk/stor_space.html Story Space on Gift Economies was made possible with the support of Gemeente Utrecht, the Mondriaan Foundation and the Danish Arts Council http://www.swopnetwork.dk |