Past Projects & Activities

Community Development Binzen: Quantitative and qualitative analysis (survey) and potentiality analysis with special attention to participation.
4-year community development process including quantitative and qualitative analysis in the framework of a broader participation process.
Client: Community of Binzen (LK Lörrach, DE), Partner: Komm_zept (Lörrach, DE)

Swiss Accelerator | Local Account Systems with Cash Pooling as Core Functionality of Regional Development
Innovation project application to the Swiss Accelerator Fund.
Partners: Grassrootseconomics, Kenya

AG Leistungsrechnung Waldwirtschaft
Collaborative development of the externality performance indicators for the forest management.
Partners: Regionalwert Leistung GmbH (DE)

1st Conference: Lokale Ökonomie & Commons: Commons Symposium
First part of the three-leg conference.
Partners: Schader Stiftung Darmstadt, Commons Institute, Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Article: «Forestry and the Strategic Development of Local Economies» in How to balance forestry and biodiversity conservation, 2021
Client: WSL Forestry (CH)

Lokale Ökonomie und Commons
Co-speakers Silke Helfrich, Commons Institute & Stephan Dilschneider, ecoloc.
5-day workshop on the potential synergies between local economic design approaches and commons and the pattern language of commoning.
Partners: Fuchsmühle Community, Waldkappel (DE)

Bündnis Lokale Ökonomie, Masterstudiengang Freiform
Business partner in the Freeform Master of Arts Programme, development of a community communication concept for the canton Baselland.
Partner: FHNW Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit

The Power of the Local Economy | Potentials of Local Economic Development
Client: Bärenclub, Community of Muri-Gümmlingen (CH)

„Vor Corona – Nach Corona“ | Erkenntnisse aus der Krise
Podium guest Stephan Dilschneider together with Patrick Dümmler, Avenir Suisse
Client: Starke Region Schweiz

Local Economy Stakeholder Analysis
Based on the metrics of the municipality of Rodersdorf (CH)
Partner: Students of MAS Corporate Communication Management at FHNW

Lokale Ökonomie Binzen | Exhibition-Prototype with results the first quantitative analysis of the local status quo to test didactic performance and acceptability of a local economy exhibition.
Partner: Community of Binzen (DE)

Kabulu Kitovu Community Hub, Limuru, Kenya
Co-creational development of a community hub for Arts &ICT in the Kenyan Highlands.
Partner: Sidney Kairu and Elen Allan Initiatives Limited, Kenya

Utu Project – A Community Development Twin-Project in Kenya and Switzerland
Prospective Partners: St. Paul’s University (Limuru, Kenya), Community of Kabuku (Limuru, Kenya)

Ecoloc Community Cards: Youth Workshop with the Ruaka Football Club, Nairobi, Kenya
Participatory action research (PAR) workshop to involve the creative capacities of the youth to map development leverage points of their community.

Commoning und Lokale Entwicklung | Silke Helfrich, Commons Institute
Workshop on the commons and on the pattern language of commoning.
Partners: Co-hosting the event in cooperation with FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung, Basel.

Die Kraft der Lokalen Ökonomie / The Power of the Local Economy
An exhibition demonstrating the potential and scope of local economic design.
Partner: Community of Rodersdorf (CH)

Jai Jagat 2020: Global March New Delhi – Geneva
Co-organising of the Swiss leg of the global march. The march was cancelled midway during the transition through Armenia due to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. Ecoloc was co-planning the Swiss route, events and exhibitions to take place in Geneva.
Partners: Ekta Parishad, CESCI

MADINA | City Region Food Systems, Burkina Faso & Kirgistan
SDC-Call City Region Food Systems. Grant application
Partners: Centre for Development & Environment, Universität Bern and others

Game development for the local economy / Spielentwicklung für die lokale Ökonomie
Project to involve pupils in schools in creativity techniques for local economic design
Partners: Ulrich Creative Simulations GmbH (UCS), Shift Mediative Konfliktlösung

The Power of the Local Economy / Die Kraft der Lokalen Ökonomie, Zukunftsforum Lörrach (DE)
Exhibition-Prototype to test educative performance
Partners: Zukunftsforum Lörrach, Komm_zept, Schöpflin Stiftung

Initiation & Steering for a Bachelor-Thesis „Spring-React-Application for Ecoloc Diagrams“
Development of a software application for Ecoloc Diagrams
Partner: FHNW Hochschule für Technik, Brugg

Lokale Ökonomie und Kreditvergabe | Local Economic Develoment and Credit Allocation
Client: Freie Gemeinschaftsbank Basel

„Ökonomische Transformation und Nähe – Die Lokale Ökonomie als Strategisches Handlungsfeld“ at the Changetagung Basel
Partner: FHNW Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit, Basel

Ecoloc-Method & Gaming with Ecoloc Cards, Bürgergruppe Lörrach (DE)
Participatory action research (PAR) workshop with local citizens to map leverage points for the development of their community. Development a basic gaming set to identify synergies between leverage points.

The Power of the Local Economy, Dorfgespräche Binzen
Client: Municipality of Binzen (DE)

Initiation & Steering for a Bachelor-Thesis „Reac-Redux Web application for Ecoloc-Diagrams with LeanUX“
Development of a software application for Ecoloc Diagrams with special attention to usability (UX).
Partner: FHNW Hochschule für Technik, Brugg

Zaitna fi Baitna / Our Oil for our House (Sudan)
Local Economy Exhibition at the Karmakol Festival, Sudan, 2017. Strengthening of the local economic discourse with development aid, supporting new methodic perspectives and cooperative paradigms, test creative approaches to learning, teaching and communication in different cultural contexts.
Partner: Swiss Initiative Culture Projects, Karmakol Culture & Education Center 

«Die Kraft der Lokalen Ökonomie», Klausurtagung Gemeinde Binzen (DE)

«The Power of the Local Economy» for the Swiss Initiative Culture Projects, Karmakol Festival

Local Economy Development, Karmakol, Sudan
Week-long programme to develop the local variant of Ecoloc Card Set based on the specific cultural set-up of the village Karmakol.

Ecoloc Local Economy Card-Set „Sudan Communities“ in cooperation with the Karmakol Preparatory Committee.

Tri-National Development in the Basel Region
Client: Pays de Sundgau, Alsassia (FR)

Sun21: Faktor 5-Prize – Finalist for the Trinational Project „The Power of Villages“.
Award by the Sun21 Association in Basel for sustainability project development.

Ecoloc Local Economy Card-Set „Switzerland“
Compiling local economic elements into a card set for the purpose of quantifying and qualifying lever attributes relating to the „degree of localization“ and „degree of realization“ and the mapping of synergies.

Inter- und transdisziplinäre Analyse- und Transformationsansätze Nachhaltiger Entwicklung
Client: Center for Development and Environment (CDE), Universität Bern

Transformation design and Adam Kahane’s concept of „Power & Love“
Client: FHNW Hochschule für Technik

150 presentations and lectures „The Power of Local Economy“ on local economic strategies
Presentation in communities and with network partners, supplemented by workshops on various topics and challenges related to local economic strategizing. Among those were communities in Switzerland, France, Germany, Sudan and Kenya.

Local Economic Strategizing with the Ecoloc Method (applied research)
Client: Forum Schwarzbubenland, Dornach (CH)

Local Economic Strategizing with the Ecoloc Method (applied research)
Client: Gemeindepräsidium Dornach (CH)

Local Economic Strategizing with the Ecoloc Method (applied research)
Client: Rodersdorf (CH)