Gifts are all around us.
They are not only for holidays. The gifts of money to cover medical costs in the USA. We gift to entertainers and researchers on crowdfunding sites. Pass-through gifts from places like the awesome foundation that goes to funding people who to make cities and communities awesome. There are even pop-up economies that function entirely on gifting. Gifts are everywhere once you start looking.
What is the gift economy credit union?
In its present form. This is an invocation. A call to adventure an art project, a research project and an educational platform. Currently, we are without a permanent home, we are a travelling festival and event camp. This is a vessel like a safe deposit box or a bank vault or a wallet where information is placed and stored until needed. This is a community of those who are interested in the economic theory beyond conventional transactional interactions. Gift economies are an important part of the economy and they might defy conventional economic theory.
What is your gift? The Gift Economy Credit Union is a framework or a construct where one can learn, share, gift and receive. We facilitate gifting infrastructure and education.
Here is what we are upto:
The Public Ledger:
- A publicly available list of gifts given and received. This is part of the proof of gift necessary to become a board member of the gift economy credit union.
The Vault:
- Some gifts require physical space for storage. Our open access valut provides ample stroage for the exchange of spontanious gift interactions.
The Board room
- Would you like to know more about gift economies of all shapes and sizes? What impact do gifts have on your life. How you could change the world through gifts. The board room is a place for talks, lectures, seminars, pannel discussions relating to the gift economy.
Macro and Micro Gift Analysis.
• We are keenly interested in the study of the gift movement. How and where and when are gifts given and received is important. If you have received a gift or given a gift come and tell us and about it.
Gift investments.
• We are run from gifts from people like you. We gift to people like you.
Jubalee
• Once in a while gifting rates will go too high. we exhibit a Jubilee a giving away of the gifts in the vault via lottery and wiping the slates clean. People might be dancing in the streets with the excitement of gift forgiveness.