Funding the Commons Forum Berlin

Katia Lukicheva is a systems strategist working at the intersection of civil society, philanthropy, and emerging technologies to rethink how we fund, govern, and sustain public goods. She brings two decades of experience across grassroots activism and civil society movements, policy... Read More →

Gurden is a design technologist at Dark Matter Labs and combines different crafts like systems thinking, rapid prototyping, speculative and critical design, data justice and tech materiality together in his practice. He has a background in Computer Science and New Media Design. Gurden... Read More →

Charlie is known for his advice, research and activism on operationalising the long-term stewardship of land, particularly in the pursuit of urban affordable housing. He is a Co-founder of Komma, a research-action agency whose team have spent more than a decade working with citizens... Read More →

Sunita Grote leads the Ventures team within UNICEF’s Office of Innovation and co-founded its Venture Fund that provides seed funding in fiat and crypto - the first in the UN system. UNICEF Ventures explores how emerging frontier technology can accelerate results for the most marginalized... Read More →

Ela Kagel is a digital strategist and expert in commons-based economies, organisational design, and cooperativism. For over two decades, she has been creating spaces that foster cultural exchange, digital innovation, and collective empowerment.Since the 1990s, Ela has been instrumental... Read More →

Lukas Kunert is a serial founder and initiator of various initiatives. His first company was a business that produced organic underwear and unfortunately failed very quickly. After a research phase in which he focused on the topic of the future of insurance and published a research... Read More →

Caroline Paulick-Thiel is a strategic designer and director of Politics for Tomorrow, a non-partisan initiative that aims to enhance the innovation capacity of the public sector to facilitate transformative change processes. They work at the intersection of government and civil society... Read More →