Envisioning Cooperatives of Architecture Workers
How would working cooperatively change your practice?
“The idea of cooperation and a flat hierarchy within a design project or firm has revolutionary potential.”
Discussion guide
Theme: exploring how collective ownership might transform daily practice.
- Who owned the firms you’ve worked at, and how did that shape your experience?
- What would change if you had a say in how pay is set, how work is shared and which projects you take on?
- In a co-op, you have to want to benefit your fellow worker-owners as well as yourself. Where would that come easily to you, and where would it be hard?
- What have you heard about cooperatives that might hold people back?
- How would working cooperatively change your practice?
Facilitator tip: mix the practical (pay ratios, schedules, project choice) with the bigger democratic ideas.
“You have to want to benefit your fellow worker-owners in addition to yourself.“
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