The individualisation of money and finance

• How and to what extent are existing financial services and technologies shaped by the assumption that money is an individual affair – creating barriers to collaborative practices? Who is disadvantaged by this? And could it change?

Money and gender and masculinity

• Who is ‘Rational Economic Man’? How does this ‘character’ shape how money is represented – as well as systems and practices around money?
• What’s the image of the ‘financial expert’? Who is representing as understanding, or having power over, money – and whose expertise is listened to?

The materialisation and dematerialisation of money

• What are the effects of imagining cashless/virtual money as ‘immaterial’ – and what about the material and environmental effects of our money systems?

Money and character, reputation, interest

• How does money represent or reframe the self, identity, relationships?

Money and temporality, time, the future

• How is money represented as a way of controlling the future, or of buying and funding future solutions to present problems?
• How are ways of thinking about and representing money linked to assumptions about progress, the valuing of the new over the old, etc?
• And what other ways of thinking about ‘money and time’ are available? What about reverting to, or rediscovering, past forms of money? What about ‘sustaining’ rather than changing/progressing? And what about the apocalyptic moment – money disclosing or revealing hidden truths?

Developing financial fluency – not just ‘financial literacy’!

• Fluency implies being able to respond creatively and do things differently – not just to read or repeat a given script

‘Taking money from the invisible hand and putting it back in the community’ – inclusion and empowerment

The ‘alternative money expert’ – juxtaposing historical and/or fictional voices with contemporary questions

Using arts and humanities work as a way of exploring alternatives – including through collaboration with artists – and including engagement of policy makers in different approaches

Interactive interview work in public spaces – creating materials with not (only) for