The 1st Edition
The 1st Edition of the Platform Co-op’s Now Course was the result of collaboration between The New School, Mondragon University and incubator.coop.
Trebor Scholz from the New Schoool and Jose Mari Luzarraga Monasterio of Mondragon University delivered the first 4 weeks to a global audience. Local Partners delivered the final 4-weeks in their respective countries. Andrew Ward and Rohan Clarke of incubator.coop delivered 10 modules in 4-weeks.
At the end of 8 weeks 6 Projects had completed the course.
The enrolled students and project participants included:
Aaron |
Magner |
Andrew |
Keast |
Andrew |
Ward |
Ann |
Apps |
Bing |
Gibson |
Brownen |
Morgan |
Elliot |
Hughes |
Emma |
Pascoe |
Hamideh |
Iraj |
Dr. Lea Campbell |
Campbell |
Melinda |
Marshall |
Molly |
Kendall |
Paul |
Atkins |
Peter |
Tregilgas |
Rachel |
Pines |
Rebel |
Black |
Rohan |
Clarke |
Sam |
Waterhouse |
Sidsel |
Grimstad |
Tamsin |
Young |
Tuffy |
Morwitzer |
Viv |
Rockach |
Katrina |
Ford |
Kerri |
Kennedy |
Janeece |
Keller |
Adrian |
Clarke |
Mel |
Gatfield |
Sara |
Smylie |
Lorraine |
Cassin |
Jane |
Karslake |


Graduating Projects
A quick summary of the projects (in alphabetical order!):
Comrades Camera – https://drive.google.com/
A platform for sharing the equipment and services that artists need. It is aimed at enabling artists to offer their equipment, and to share their skills and expertise, with projects and other artists – in a way that helps create sustainable income for artists.
FairBnB – https://archive.org/details/
A smart & fair solution for community powered tourism. This project aims to bring a global platform coop to Australia. The model enables communities to invest in their own development, via recycling 50% of booking fees back into local projects. This revenue sharing approach aligns interests between communities, hosts and guests and creates a socially sustainable business model that has a significant competitive advantage over incumbent platforms.
Making your waste a future resource. A platform that addresses the issue of matching and logistics in “waste production” and demand with “next-markets”. It’s an app that creates a market in recycled products by connecting logistics. transports and storage.
The Rural Woman – https://archive.org/details/
View The Graduating Pitches
FairBnB
Loconomics
Future Resource
Get.coop
The Rural Woman
Comrades Camera
Global Results
The 1st Edition was a great start. There was much learned by the course convenors, local partners, students and project participants.
