Collaboration

The recent protests have revealed the people’s dissatisfaction: politicians seems far removed from day-to-day life and are overwhelmed with major projects such as train stations or airports. The people, by contrast, are more opinionated than ever. After years of neoliberal speeches, they have become accustomed to personal responsibility: together they created Wikipedia, renovated class rooms or just founded schools themselves. And in that way, they became positive collaborators.

Following up on his observations in Interkultur, Mark Terkessidis sketches a new theory of collaboration that begins with the angry and searching individual. According to Terkessidis, a society of diversity can only work when many voices are being heard and different people work together.