A Fair New Idea?! #1: Working with care – Common Income

Common Income is a research project about the possibility to share income between (not only) artists and cultural workers in Flanders.

How can a collective capital create more financial security for individuals within and even outside the arts? We share inspiring practices and will develop an experiment ourselves.

Common Income is supported by A Fair New World ?!.

Mapping existing practices of sharing income (2021)

Part of the research work is mapping (and also interviewing) other inspiring practices in which individuals share income to create more social security for each other. These projects embrace values like solidarity, collectivity and/or social cohesion. Maybe they also can inspire you? If you know other practices that we should look into, please email us!

Mein Grundeinkommen (DE)

11 Apr 2022

Tontine (Global South)

11 Apr 2022

Collectief Kapitaal (NL)

11 Apr 2022

Social Income (SH & SL)

11 Apr 2022

SOS Relief (BE)

11 Apr 2022

Common Wallet (BE)

11 Apr 2022

Broodfonds (NL)

11 Apr 2022

Entrepotes (BE)

09 Apr 2022

Mapping

Involving others’ ideas, e.g. during Money Moments (2022)

We want to break the taboo on money. During our Money Moments, artists and cultural workers share their needs, doubts and ideas about income. Read some of the most striking Money Quotes that came up during these conversations.

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Read the Money Quotes from our Money Moments

Open and intimate conversations about money, in search of a Common Income - pilot project against precarity.

Wallet on the Table: how to organize a Money Moment?

Want to organise your own money moment with colleagues or friends? We promise you an extraordinary experience. Use this guide.

Designing and executing a pilot project

Three pilot projects will be tested in 2023:

Lotto Lokal / Triangle of Support

Residents in a single street in Brussels are asked to contribute a monthly sum into a street fund, according to a pay-what-you-can/want system.

The Toolbox for Asymmetrical Pay

Is it possible to move from equality to equity and envision a system in which we are paid according to what we need to live?

Reaching out to the Rich

How can people with greater financial surplus be motivated to share their income with others?

Earn what you need: a plea for unequal pay

The ‘Earn what you need’ concept makes unequal pay a matter of honour to compensate for structural inequality and privilege.

It bases justice not on the actual work, but on people’s different situations. It understands pay as redistribution and extends collegiality to solidarity.

‘Fair’ then becomes: not everyone the same, but everyone enough.

Read the plea for unequal pay by Common Income

About Common Income

Common Income started out as a project by Leontien Allemeersch, Thomas Decreus, Wouter Hillaert, Justine Maxelon and Anna Rispoli, and was later joined by Roger Fähndrich, Kopano Maroga, Laura Oriol, Sandra Sara Raes Oklobdzija, Elien Ronse, Leonore Spee, Camille Soual, Nele Vereecken, with additional support of Lou Mechraoui, Martina Petrovic, Katrien Reist and Joan Somers Donnelly.

In addition to the support of Flanders Arts Institue within the framework of A Fair New Idea?!, Common Income is also supported by State of The Arts (SOTA).