We are taught to think that financial well-being is something personal: your savings, your property, your failure and recovery plan. But what if it doesn’t have to be this way? What if wealth and resilience are fundamentally collective?

At Open Future Lab, we have been developing a set of cards to make these mechanisms visible. They are not predictions, solutions, or policy recommendations. They are prompts: small objects for thinking with about logic we call social compounding.

Before our work goes live, we are testing it with a small group of participants willing to tell us how they feel about the format, the language, and the assumptions behind it.

You might be working in, studying, or just interested in:

• Community organising, mutual aid, or commons-based initiatives
• Speculative design, futures thinking, or design research
• Policy, urban planning, or social innovation
• Economics, finance, or alternative economic models
• MA or PhD research in related fields
• Collective resilience, cooperation, or new economic imaginaries

Prior knowledge of community-based practices is welcome, but not at all required. Join us to try the format, think with the cards, and share your own experiences and questions about collective resilience.

📍Erste Campus, Am Belvedere 1, 1100 Wien
🗓 9 June (Tuesday) or 10 June (Wednesday) 2026
🕕 18:00