Caroline Woolard

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.

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.

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!

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.

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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.

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.

• Applied Aesthetics (RESEARCH)
• Athena Kokoronis (FOOD)
• Cassie Thornton                 (HA!)
• Christopher Robbins (TACTICS)
• Huong Ngo                   (SECRET SCHOOL)
• K.I.D.S.                (ooooooooooooooooooh)
• Louise Ma           (DESIGN MASTER)
• Rich Watts             (DESIGNER + MAKER)