U+ZINE #2 - Do Corporations have a future? - Plurality University

ALT CORPS
The corporate form can also be used for purposes and in ways that differ significantly,
even sometimes radically, from dominant practices in the business world. Are these
«alt corporations» a taste of times to come?
How to make the difference between real alternatives and window-dressing?
REPAIR
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TAKE ON A MISSION
L’AG du futur (the Shareholders Meeting of the Future)
A public simulation of the General Meeting of a fictitious company, Mirliton, wishing to transform itself into
a mission-led company. We gathered 700 people who slipped into the shoes of Mirliton shareholders.
✷ Prophil, 2019
The fictive company «Universal Cleansing Plan» was founded in 2019. Angelica Boehm and Nicole Loeser (…)
founded a fictive globally acting NGO based on sociocracy. It is officially located on an island that has been built up
from parts of the Pacific Garbage Patch. It acts worldwidely, intercontinentally and decentrally. (…) The company
«Universal Cleansing Plan» is built as a platform and open source. Their goals are oriented towards the common
good and focus on circular economy and regeneration design. To be more productive, effective and impactful, the
network works in an interdisciplinary manner in various areas. The company has branches of research institutions
and production facilities where e.g. mealworm for plastic decomposition are planted as well as pure bio-plastic
manufacturers operated by world leading material experts and material engineers. »
✷ Angelica Boehm and Nicole Loeser, 2020,
« Universal Cleansing Plan »
GIVE BACK
Exit to Community (E2C) is an effort to develop
alternatives to the standard model of the startup
«exit.» Rather than simply aiming for an acquisition
by a more established company or a public
stock offering, could startups aim to mature into
ownership by their community of stakeholders?
✷ Media Enterprise Design Lab, University of Colorado
Boulder