Cosmolocal Reader Launch Event

​It has been a 2 year journey documenting and gathering stories, and we're ready to show the world what we have found.

​Editors José Ramos, Sharon Ede, Michel Bauwens and Gien Wong present the Cosmolocal Reader, a comprehensive anthology exploring the potentials and emergences of a cosmolocal world.

​The Cosmolocal Reader features 50 chapters documenting and discussing theory and practice. From modular automotive manufacturing, to agri-robotics and peer to peer farming, community driven wind power and housing construction... to biohacking, furniture fabrication, upcycling, prosthetics, and disaster relief, over 40 cases and examples from around the world provide a foundation to consider what exists and what could be.

​Cosmolocalism stands for a transformation in how we produce the stuff of life. It is a contested space with no guarantees. There are patent wars and appropriations of IP, the challenges in building and financing open source and open design start ups, creating urban commons ecosystems, and a variety of other challenges. But we see possibilities bubbling through the surface. And, the challenges we are facing are asking for bold and transformative thinking and strategy. Today we also hold new technological potentials, creative human labor that can be mutualized, and new modes of economic, political and cultural organization. The ingredients for change are sitting before us. In this book we bring many of these ingredients together for us to consider how we use these to shape the world we want to become.