The Visual Logic of the Swirl, or How the Shape of an Economy is Recursive

The question of how commoning can be unleashed via speculative design also inspires the text that brilliantly closes the issue. Bringing together circular economy, blockchain technology and art, Erik Bordeleau invites us to envisage the swirl as ‘a compelling entry point for understanding the dynamics of both participatory design and economic systems’. This speculative and aesthetic effort to envisage a looping process that is able to spiral away from the circular trap of the strange loop, while leveraging the emergent, collective intensity generated by the contributory elements at play, is grounded in The Sphere, a regenerative commons for the live arts.