Funding the Commons Forum Berlin

Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, researcher, experience designer and curator. She is a Program Director at Funding the Commons, an organization exploring new models & mechanisms for open source & public goods funding.Formerly of web3 projects including Curve Labs, Centrifuge... Read More →

David Dao is the Co-Founder of GainForest.Earth, a decentralized science non-profit leveraging emerging technologies to address the climate and biodiversity crisis. His work earned him the XPRIZE Rainforest Prize, and he is a leading contributor to research on data valuation in machine... Read More →

John leads work at the intersection of emerging technology, planetary stewardship, and human dignity.He works across research, design, and engineering to develop systems that make complex spatial data verifiable, interoperable, and more useful in practice. His approach blends theoretical... Read More →

Paul Seidler, an artist and researcher based in Berlin, focuses his exploration on economic systems, decentralized programs, and computation. In 2020, he graduated at the University of Arts in the class of Prof. Joachim Sauter. Seidler is recognized as one of the founding members... Read More →

I am a Lisbon-based artist and computer programmer interested in the interplay between technology and the natural landscape. Using narrative generative systems—animated videos of infinite duration, real-time simulations built in game engines or other software—I create worlds that... Read More →