The Bank of Common Knowledge
A collective platform for knowledge exchange and mutual education.

Date: 2006-2009

 
 

txt : The Bank of Common Knowledge (BCK) can be viewed as a pilot test for knowledge trade. The project stems from a study of similar previous experiences in Catalonia and abroad to create a network of people and spaces willing to swap knowledge and cultural objects.

BCK aims to be an experiment in exchange and gift economy, a testing ground to generate the necessary codes to regulate and structure the appropriation of informal knowledge, that is, knowledge generated by inventive amateur practices, ranging from short wave radio communities to bloggers.
The Bank of Common Knowledge is organized as a model of knowledge transfer, a laboratory for inventing and trying out new forms of production, education, organization and diffusion, involving new roles for producers and receivers, experts and amateurs, teachers and students, as well as new relationships between the production of image, text and audio material and their subsequent diffusion in the public space.

In short, The Bank of Common Knowledge wants to allow people conscious of the value of knowledge to assemble, produce, create and transmit in new communication and exchange circuits, free from restrictive hierarchical roles.
You are very welcome to participate and send us or recomend us manuals (text, audio, video), reports of similar experiences and other DIY material.
Drop an email to: olivierschulbaum at platoniq.net