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the co-matter podcast
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The co-matter podcast is a series of conversations about the future of bringing people together. Hosted by Severin Matusek from co-matter, a global network exploring what makes communities thrive.
Episodes
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Sarah Drinkwater: What is the responsible tech movement?
Sarah Drinkwater is the Director of Responsible Tech at Omidyar Network, a social change venture that works to bring about structural changes that will fundamentally shift the systems that govern our daily lives. Sarah is on a mission to make technology more ethical and responsible. In 2020 she…
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Peter Sunde: What makes people become activists?
Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi believes that content on the Internet should be free - a cause he famously went to jail for as a co-founder of the controversial file sharing service The Pirate Bay. Now, Peter has released a documentary called THE ACTIVIST; a 5 part series for Finnish television where…
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Andres Colmenares: The Everything Manifesto
Andres Colmenares is the co-founder of IAM, the think tank, consultancy and conference that explore the futures of the internet(s). Together with Lucy Black-Swan, Andres published The Everything Manifesto in late 2019: a call for citizens and organizations to act collectively to address the…
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Philippa Wagner: The Hotel as a Community
Philippa Wagner is the director of 23lab, Ennismore’s future innovation lab that researches the hotel experience of the future. Together with her team, she helps shape the future experience of The Hoxton, a series of open-house hotels based in London, Amsterdam, Paris, NYC, Portland and Chicago.…
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Julien de Smedt: The Architecture of Misuse
Julien de Smedt is an architect and the founder of JDS Architects, the award-winning architecture firm behind buildings such as Oslo’s Holmenkollen Ski Jump or Copenhagen’s Kalvebod Waves. We met at JDS' headquarters in Copenhagen to talk* about how architecture influences the way we live and...
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Lea Korsgaard & Jakob Moll: Zetland, The Future Of Community Based Media
Lea Korsgaard and Jakob Moll are two of the four journalists who founded Zetland: a Danish digital newspaper and media company that’s built on a community based membership model. Founded in 2012, the publication has over 10,000 paying subscribers in their community who read and listen to…
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Darius Kazemi: How to Create Your Own Social Network
Darius, who is also known as Tiny Subversions on the www, is an internet artist and a researcher on the future of social networks. Based out of Portland, Oregon, he has recently undertaken a fellowship at the Mozilla Foundation in Berlin which resulted in “Run your own social” - a manual that...
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Payal Arora: Let the Next Billion Users Play Games and Watch Porn
Digital anthropologist Dr. Payal Arora bursts Western clichés and reveals how people in China, India and the Middle East will shape the future Internet.
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Pop-In Call: The Future of the Future Forecaster w/ Helen Job
A conversation with Helen Job about the changing role of a future forecaster, the newly founded TCO Lab and upcoming Future of Community Report.
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Yancey Strickler: Could This Be Our Future?
A conversation with Kickstarter co-founder & former CEO Yancey Strickler about his new book and his vision for a more generous world.
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Pop-In Call: Adobe’s Creative Residency and Community Programs w/ Franziska Parschau
Franziska from Adobe Germany talks about their Creative Residency, a program that empowers creatives to spend a year focusing on a personal creative project, while sharing their experience and process with the creative community.
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Amanda Michel: Why Not Ask Readers to Contribute?
The Guardian's Amanda Michel shares how asking readers to contribute led to one of the most significant turnarounds in recent British media history.
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Scott Heiferman: The Story of Meetup
Scott is the founder of Meetup, the platform for people to host and join real-life meetups in their area. Describing Meetup is almost like describing the social web: it's been around since 2002, connects millions of people and is often named in the same category as Facebook, Twitter and other...
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Pop-In Call #2: What is Engaged Journalism? w/ Kathryn Geels
Pop-in calls are short, hands-on conversations where members of the co-matter community call in to share insights about a specific project they currently work on. Today we're joined by the fantastic Kathryn Geels, director of the Engaged Journalism Accelerator based out of London, UK. We talk...
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Charles Broskoski: The Story Behind Are.na
Charles is a co-founder of Are.na, a visual organization tool designed to help you think and create. Some call it the Pinterest for nerds, others an alternative social network that helps you collect and connect ideas with a community of like-minded visual researchers. Are.na has over 100,000...
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Pop-In Call #1: Why Does WeTransfer Care About Your Mental Health? w/ Annie Malarkey
We are introducing a new format to the co-matter podcast: the pop-in call. Pop-in calls are shorter, more hands-on sessions than our long-form conversations. For each pop-in call we invite a member of the co-matter community to call in and share insights, learnings and best practices about a...
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Jennifer Brandel & Mara Zepeda: How Zebras Unite Make Startup Culture More Inclusive
Jennifer and Mara are one half, or two of four co-founders, of Zebras Unite. Spread across 6 continents, 40 chapters and an online community of 4000 founders, Zebras Unite is a global movement that aims to make startup and venture capital culture more ethical and inclusive. At our third Community...
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Hampus Jakobsson: There is No Us vs Them in the Climate Crisis
Hampus Jakobsson is an entrepreneur and investor based out of Malmö, Sweden. Throughout his career, Hampus invested in more than 80 startups and is now one of the most sought-after investors in the Nordics. Earlier this year, he decided to only invest in technologies that contribute to solving…
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Petra Costa: The Edge of Democracy
Petra is a Brazilian filmmaker whose documentary The Edge of Democracy got released on Netflix today. The Edge of Democracy is a very personal film about the political situation in Brazil, told through the eyes of Petra who witnessed first-hand the rise and fall of her country’s leaders. Her…
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Yousef Hammoudah: How we Built Adidas Runners
Yousef is the Global Director of Culture & Community for adidas Running. What he started as a Berlin runners club 6 years ago is now a global community known as adidas Runners, spanning 65 cities and 5 continents. We wanted to learn about Yousef’s journey with adidas Runners, and to understand…
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Santiago Siri: Can the Internet Save Democracy?
Santiago is the founder of Democracy Earth, an open source platform for governance and community participation. A former video game developer turned activist-slash-founding member of Argentina's political party Partido de la Red, Santi takes us on a walk through NYC's central park to talk about…
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Solana Larsen: How to Keep the Internet Healthy
Solana Larsen is a journalist, editor and activist currently leading the Internet Health Report: Mozilla’s open source initiative to document and explain the state of the Internet in various areas of global interest. We talked to Solana on the occasion of the Internet Health Report’s third…
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Jyri Engeström: Investing into the Web's Social Infrastructure
Jyri Engeström is a Finland-born, California-raised entrepreneur who has built online social networks since the dawn of the web 2.0 era. With Yes VC, the early-stage venture fund he started together with his partner Caterina Fake, Jyri now invests in the next generation of the web’s social...
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The Life and Times of Harper Reed
Harper Reed is an American technologist, known for being the CTO behind Obama's 2012 re-election campaign, for his involvement in pioneering online crowdsourcing company Threadless, his hairstyle, and many other weird and wonderful projects he gets involved in. Severin met Harper at MIT’s media…
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Claire L. Evans: The Women Who Built the Internet
Claire L. Evans is a LA-based writer, musician and the author of Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. She’s also one of the most eloquent, articulate and witty people we’ve met to reflect on the state of the Internet today. In our talk, we covered how Claire met the...
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Khalid Albaih: How We Lost the Internet
Khalid Albaih is a political cartoonist and social media activist. Using the Internet as a way of publishing uncensored drawings since 2006, Khalid has been one of the leading visual artists of the Arab Spring and has witnessed first hand how social media evolved - from a tool to fight the...
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Sarah Clark: The Secret Behind Rapha's Success
Sarah Clark is the Chief Marketing Officer of Rapha, the British cycling brand known and loved for celebrating cycling as a sport and culture. Rapha is a prime example of how a brand can build an authentic community around a clear purpose: it runs its own cycling club with thousands of members,...
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Claire Wasserman: How Ladies Get Paid Helps Women Rise Up
Claire is the founder of Ladies Get Paid, an organization and global community that helps women rise up at work. Since its launch in 2016, Ladies Get Paid has grown to 30,000 members in more than 60 countries. We talk about how it all got started: how Ladies Get Paid grew from a meetup in a tiny...
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Charles Adler: What I Learned from Building Kickstarter
Charles Adler is a designer, entrepreneur and technologist most well known for being the co-founder and former Head of Design of Kickstarter; the crowdfunding platform that forever changed how creativity gets funded. Charles then founded Lost Arts, a 25,000 sqf workspace in Chicago, and travels…
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Nelly Ben Hayoun: How to Design Experiences
Nelly Ben Hayoun is a designer of experiences. Sometimes called the "Willy Wonka of Design and Science" or “Part designer, part performance artist, part space traveller”, Nelly and her team are known for transcending boundaries. They create orchestras together with NASA space scientists, put dark...
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Rafe Offer: How Sofar Sounds Turned into a Global Movement
Rafe Offer is the co-founder & CEO of Sofar Sounds, a global movement that brings people together over live music in an intimate setting. Based out of London, Sofar was launched in 2009 and now stages concerts in 398 cities worldwide. In our conversation we talk about the humble beginnings of...
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Linda Liukas: How I Became a Children's Book Author Over Night
Linda Liukas is a children’s book author and the creator of Hello Ruby, a book that teaches children about the whimsical world of computers, technology and coding. Hello Ruby was the first children’s book that raised $380,000 on Kickstarter and is published in over 24 languages today. In our...
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Justin Gignac: Building the World’s Most Obsessively Curated Community of Creatives
Justin Gignac is the founder of Working Not Working, a marketplace that connects companies with the universe’s most creative creatives. Founded in 2012 by Justin and his friend Adam Tompkins in New York City, the platform now includes over 10.000 members that work together with over 2000 of the...
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Annamaria Olsson: Building Bridges Between Refugees and other Migrants
Annamaria Olsson is the founder of Give Something Back to Berlin; an award-winning project that connects refugees and migrants from all backgrounds through knowledge sharing. What started with a Facebook post in 2012 has helped thousands of newly arrived Berliners integrate in society, make…
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Simon Caspersen: How IKEA’s Research Lab SPACE10 Open-sources Innovation
Simon is one of the founding members and Director of Communications at SPACE10 - a future living lab on a mission to design a better and more sustainable way of living. With projects ranging from vertical farming to the future of meatballs, the team at the Copenhagen-based research lab works with…
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Martin Jordan and Kara Kane: How the UK Designs Public Services According to Human Needs
Martin and Kara are part of the team of Government Digital Services; the digital unit of the UK Government that's widely recognized to set standards for the way citizens interact with government online. In this conversation Severin sat down with Martin and Kara at The Whitechapel Building in…
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Jerry Michalski on the Power of Trust in Today's Economy
Considered one of the shapers of the dot-com era, Jerry Michalski observes, analyzes and consults on technology trends since the early 1990s. Severin and Jerry talk about the role of trust and relationships in today's economy, the dynamics behind platforms such as Kickstarter, Airbnb, Wikipedia…
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Damian Bradfield: How did WeTransfer Become a Platform for Creatives?
The guest on this show is Damian Bradfield, president and CMO of WeTransfer. With 40 million active users and 1 billion files transferred every month, WeTransfer is not only an incredibly successful file-sharing service but also a much-loved platform that supports and inspires creatives around…
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Niko Woischnik: How did Tech Open Air Become Europe's Biggest Interdisciplinary Tech Conference?
In our first episode we talk to Niko Woischnik, the founder of Tech Open Air. Tech Open Air is Europe's biggest interdisciplinary tech conference that brings more than 20.000 people to Berlin this year. In this conversation, Niko and Severin talk about how it all started with a crowdfunding...
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