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Apr 25

Imagine

Apr 25

For I is another

Brief thoughts on the construction of identity through another

Jan 26

For I is another

Jan 26

From generosity to trust: the role of barter and credit-money in social cohesion

Key takeaway: Barter extends far beyond mere exchanges, embodying acts of generosity and gratitude that forge social bonds and credit-debt…

May 20, 2023

From generosity to trust: the role of barter and credit-money in social cohesion

May 20, 2023

Blockchain’s social contracts and the need for web2.5

Key takeaway: if we want to benefit from the advances of decentralised technologies at scale we will need to mix them with centralised…

Mar 25, 2023

Blockchain’s social contracts and the need for web2.5

Mar 25, 2023

The significance of design

Key takeaway: service design is a creative discipline that works on operating models to improve user experiences. Ethics and aesthetics…

Nov 5, 2022

The significance of design

Nov 5, 2022

Hypothesis on the origin and end of spacetime: the eternal now cycle

Key takeaway: all black holes will end up in Big Bangs

Sep 25, 2022

Hypothesis on the origin and end of spacetime: the eternal now cycle

Sep 25, 2022

Unspoken limitations of programmable money on Ethereum and other blockchains

Besides contextual obstacles, current blockchain technologies have technical architectures that limit how creative we can be when designing…

Aug 11, 2022

Unspoken limitations of programmable money on Ethereum and other blockchains

Aug 11, 2022

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RCA Service Design

Hito Steyerl’s RCA NFT case: how to recreate a school out of an NFT?

During The Urgency Of The Arts lecture series (March, 2021) at the Royal College of Art in London, the artist Hito Steyerl offered to give…

Nov 24, 2021

Hito Steyerl’s RCA NFT case: how to recreate a school out of an NFT?

Nov 24, 2021

A market based on perpetual debt

The advantage of the gold standard was precisely the imposed scarcity, while the problem with fiat money is that it can be “dropped by…

Apr 7, 2021

A market based on perpetual debt

Apr 7, 2021

Published in
RCA Service Design

Social Contracts in Designing state-money

The following text is part of speculative process driven Service Design project that tries to find a better form of state-money. One of…

Mar 18, 2021

Social Contracts in Designing state-money

Mar 18, 2021

João Alves Marrucho

João Alves Marrucho

I have a wide set of interests from economics and monetary systems, to theoretical physics and languages.

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