Matt Prewitt: Social Technology, Community Currencies, and RadicalxChange

About this episode

The episode features a conversation with Matt Prewitt about rethinking communities through social technology and community currencies.

We chat with Matt Prewitt from RadicalxChange about rethinking communities through intentional design and social technology. The conversation explores various types of intentional communities, including affinity communities, individualist escape communities, and responsible experimenters. Matt highlights how responsible experimentation can create more sustainable and impactful spaces and argues that mutual vulnerability is essential for building trust and shared identity. This is illustrated by RadicalxChange's use of community currencies like "∈dges" at Edge City’s pop-up villages, an experiment to incentivize local exchange and keeping value circulating in the community. The chat closes with ideas on how such social technologies can cultivate human flourishing by combining global connectedness with robust, locally supportive systems. Links Matt Prewitt: https://x.com/m_t_prewitt Timour Kosters: https://x.com/timourxyz RadicalxChange: https://www.radicalxchange.org/ Edge City: https://twitter.com/joinedgecity Edge City Lanna: https://www.edgecity.live/lanna Chapters (00:00) Introduction (02:14) RadicalxChange’s Mission and Theory of Change (06:45) Georg Simmel and the Power of…

People in this episode

Host: Timour Kosters

Guest: Matt Prewitt

Topics covered

• social technology
• community currencies
• intentional design
• affinity communities
• mutual vulnerability
• local exchange

Keywords

• RadicalxChange
• community currencies
• intentional communities
• social technology
• mutual vulnerability
• local exchange
• human flourishing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RadicalxChange, Edge City

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