, Bread Coop Zone (Studio)
A lightning talk on the Traditional Dream Factory, exploring alternative economic models and community-centered approaches to value creation.
With over 15 years in tech, I've spent most of my career promoting open science — working to make research more efficient, effective, and accessible to the people and communities who need it most.
More recently, I've shifted my focus to a different kind of openness: the commons. I now support the Traditional Dream Factory, a living lab in Portugal that is actively proving that commons-based land regeneration is not just ecologically sound, but financially viable. It's the kind of project that asks a fundamental question — can we build institutions and economies that treat land as something to steward rather than extract?
Behind that project sits OASA, a Swiss non-profit developing the legal, financial, and technical infrastructure to make replication possible. The vision is a replicable template: a toolkit that allows communities around the world to transition land out of extractive private ownership and into permanent regenerative stewardship — at scale, and built to last beyond any single generation.