Caroline Woolard

carolinewoolard@gmail.com

Exchange

What is our work worth to each other?
I'm a co-founder of OurGoods.org and Trade School.

Clothing

Barter with me for a Work Dress.

Foraging, food and chance

Learn about mushrooms with us. Strataspore.com

Public space

Public seating and subway swinging.

Other work

View my other work at my Flickr pool.

Studio

I organize an 8,000 sq ft studio space with peers.

My whereabouts

Sep 09 2010

P2P Fashion @ Nightwood, 7-9pm
http://www.nightwoodny.com/html_pages/news.html
Pascale Gatzen invited me to participate in this celebration of small scale fashion production. I’m working with Adriana Young, Huong Ngo, and Andrea Loest.

Sep 16 2010

Collaborative Consumption Panel 7pm @ The Parsons School of Design, Kellen Auditorium
http://parsonsriseofcollaborativeconsumption.eventbrite.com/
I’ll be speaking on this panel. It’s focused on “a new realm of consumerism, one marked by trust between strangers, shared access instead of ownership, and the primacy of experience over “more stuff”. It will be highly interactive with the audience driving the Q&A session, moderated by Bruce Nussbaum.

Sep 26 2010

ERPA Book Launch 7pm @ OpenPlans Penthouse
https://www.thefield.org/t-erpa.aspx
A Celebration of Cultural Entrepreneurship
I wrote a chapter of this book!

Sep 30 2010

Live Barter Network @ PRELUDE from 3-5pm
http://preludenyc.org/
Who has what you want? Who wants what you have? Visit our live barter network to trade skills, spaces, and objects with other creative people. Co-founders of OurGoods.org will map your skills and needs to connect you to your barter matches in real time. Exchange with others and visualize the diversity of goods and services available in the community right now.

Oct 15 2010

I am a co-organizer of a barter network for artists, designers, and craftspeople in NYC and beyond (http://ourgoods.org/). Bartering skills, spaces, and objects based on mutual agreement rather than market value allows social, environmental, and ethical rationales to drive exchange behavior. The other co-founders of OurGoods are: Carl Tashian, the senior site engineer from Zip Car, Rich Watts and Louise Ma, two of the best designers in NYC, and Jen Abrams, a self production expert. After a year and a half of research and development, we are in the alpha stage and a plan to launch to the public with OurGoods beta this fall!

To get the word out about barter, Rich, Louise, Saul Melman and myself run an alternative learning environment called Trade School, where students barter for instruction. We introduce the idea of alternative value systems by asking students to agree to “pay” the teacher with barter items that the teacher requests. All students can become teachers, as everyone is invited to teach a class on a technique, tradition, or tactic. We had 76 classes in a month on everything from grassroots organizing to making butter, and will open again soon! http://tradeschool.ourgoods.org/


Past whereabouts

Apr 17 2010

Rich Watts and I have furniture @ The Milan Furniture Fair
http://www.publicdesignfestival.org/portal/IT/contents/generic_home.php

May 19 2010

I’m presenting my work @ MoMA’s Think Tank called Audience Experiments: Contemporary Art in the Age of the Spectacle
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/events/8586

Jun 04 2010

I’m speaking about OurGoods @ The Walker Art Center.
http://calendar.walkerart.org/event.wac?id=5666

Jun 07 2010

I’m speaking about value and connection @ The Feast Salon. http://feastsalon4.eventbrite.com/.

Jun 26 2010

Let’s have a three-hour conversation about value, alternative economies, and the problems of exchange.
http://welcomedoubleagent.com/2010/radicalcitizenship.html

Jun 29 2010

Idea Party @ Taller Bouricua, run by myself and curator Erin Marie Sickler
http://www.thefield.org/p-701-skills-swap-idea-party.aspx
http://www.tallerboricua.org/

Jul 18 2010

The school lunchroom is a barter market place…
http://www.beamcamp.com/beam-summer_camp-blog/
Come to BEAM Camp for a trading post run by 6-16 year olds.

Aug 13 2010

Dinner and Presentation, 7pm @ Mildred’s Lane
http://www.mildredslane.com/projects/2010_retail21c/index.php
I’m presenting my work for the Retail 21st Century think tank.


Peers