Market of Ideas

File:CT billboard.jpg Return to Parade Market of Ideas May 23, 2010 What is cultural about economics? Markets are good at convening and distributing resources. Based on the model of the ancient bazaar, Critical Practice convened a Market of Ideas in which 'stalls' staffed by artists, anthropologists, economists and others exchanged their knowledge with the milling crowd. The market was convened to embody peer-2-peer exchange, the distribution of knowledge, and the building of communal resources. Read our cultural interpretation of Bruno Latour's Traceability Critical Practice's reflections on the Market and the Congress are here. The Stalls File:Market install.JPG File:Market.JPG Bilawal Bhutto - in collaboration with Henry Proctor Waste Proposal Unit Market Cafe - a collaboration between Marsha and Mary Anne Debt - with David Graeber Economy of emotions - with Davina Drummond The Market of Ideas: a currency? Permacouture - with Katelyn Toth-Fejel Well-being Ecoes - a collaboration between Marsha Bradfield and Jem Mackay [1] Thievery A Barber Economics Through Imagery - An Associative Approach Corporation.comm -The perverse pleasure of mixing community and business. Economies of consensus and information - with Mike Reddin Interested (and Interesting) Parties Unable to Participate Miriam Kennet and Volker Heinemann of the Green Economics Institute were to discuss Basic Income Larry Lohmann et al of The Cornerhouse Kevin Smith of Carbon Trade Watch Dr. Yuval Millo Professor Donald MacKenzie Alex Wilkie and Researchers from Goldsmiths Citizen's Income Trust Philanthropy Capital A wish list of possible particpants and draft letter of invitation • Person from nef's 'Centre for Global Interdependence' that has ideas about food waste - MA has contacted / will chase • Evan Davis (BBC Economics Editor) • Stephanie Flanders (Newsnight's Economics Editor) • Tim Jackson - Professor of Sustainability, University of Surrey • Nick Baylis • an Actor Network Theorist (on the connection between economics and cultural producer) • Someone from LETS • Someone from the Treasury! • A Green Party representative • Someone from a Time Bank scheme Some useful texts Ideology and Economic Development by Michael A. Lebowitz is great overview of neoclassical economics and begins to describe some of opportunities to work against capital. Resistance Is Surrender - Slavoj Žižek debates how and why the individual might take up these opportunities. Both inform the Congress agenda to address the relevance of a cultural 'avant-garde'. Outputs Each stall was allocated a budget of £200. As a way of limiting exclusion from the event and in keeping with current Aims each stall will produce a resource. A festival publication will be produced by the organisers of the festival and documentation will be available soon. return to London Festival of Europe * Parade Market of Ideas May 23, 2010

Budget 14 Ideas each with a budget of £200. FoE Market Budget: stall fees Claimee Stall Date of claim Paid? Joe Balfour Corporation.comm  ?  ? David Graeber Debt  ?  ? Rob Dingle £400 Thievery + Barber  ?  ? Marsha Bradfield and Mary Anne Francis Market Cafe April 23, 2008 £200 Mike Knowlden £200 Waste Proposal Unit May 2nd 2008 n Marsha Bradfield and Jem Mackay Ecoes Documentary April 22, 2008 £200 Miriam Kennet (£100) Basic Income  ? n NEF (£100) Well-being  ? n Cinzia Cremona and Davina Drummond Emotional Economy 16 April 2008 £200 Tom Trevatt Bhutto & Permacouture 21st March £400 Arthur Edwards Associative Economics March £200 CIT Basic Income 13th April £100 Trevor Giles Well-being 30.4.08 £100 Mike Reddin economies of consensus March £200 Total allocation: £2800 Total paid: £1200 Return to Parade Market of Ideas May 23, 2010