- Title
- Enkel Collective: Making Change Makers
- Creator
- Matthews, Ben
- Relation
- The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology p. 173-180
- Relation
- INC Reader 12
- Publisher
- Institute of Network Cultures
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Enkel Collective was established in late 2014 in the small post-industrial port city of Fremantle, near Perth in Western Australia, during the tail-end of a decade long ‘mining boom’ in a region that relies heavily on primary industries for its economic survival. Not long afterward, my conversations with co-founder Adam Jorlen began, and during an interview in late December 2018, we discussed the journey to date. Here, I reflect on our conversation, sharing portions from a unique socio-technical experiment that responded to growing precarity by building and sustaining an organized network. We first met in July 2015, and Adam took me on a tour of a dusty, ancient Navy warehouse by the Fremantle harbor that Enkel had temporary use of. It was cavernous and empty, save for piles of rusting bicycles that were part of a discontinued social enterprise. As we wandered about, he energetically described in his lilting, Swedish accent plans to win permission from local government to keep the huge space. In mid-2019 his patience will pay off and Enkel Naval Store will open.
- Subject
- enkel collective; socio-technical experiment; social enterprise; organized network
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1460366
- Identifier
- uon:45938
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789492302366
- Language
- eng
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