Pop-up Microeconomies for Event-Based Communities

* Article: Regen Villages: Pop-up Microeconomies for Event-Based Communities: Cosmo-Local commoning during Devconnect Buenos Aires. By Diogo, 2025

URL = https://paragraph.com/@diogoj/regen-villages-pop-up-microeconomies-for-event-based-communities

Abstract

"This article presents Regen Villages, a research exploration funded by Allo Capital that investigates pop-up microeconomies as a mechanism for cosmo-local commoning during global conferences. The experiment took place during Devconnect Buenos Aires (November 16–23, 2025) and explored how temporary, community-owned infrastructures—such as shared treasuries, commitment pools, and cultural coordination—can support trust-building between local and global actors. Using a combination of onchain data analysis and qualitative feedback analyzed through Reflexive Thematic Analysis, the study examines both material exchanges and affective outcomes such as emotional safety, belonging, and learning. Findings suggest that repeated, embodied experiences of commoning can generate cultural capital, facilitate non-extractive global–local collaboration, and offer an alternative to transactional conference dynamics. Regen Villages are proposed as a repeatable design pattern for cultivating cosmo-local communities of practice across geographies."