--- layout: event title: "If I Only Had a Heart: Accounting for Care Work in Organizations" summary: Activist Stacco Troncoso introduces the Decentralized Cooperative Organization tags: [internet-of-ownership, events] event-date: November 18, 2019 event-time: 3-4:30 p.m. event-location: CASE E422 --- Art by id iom CC-BY-NC Too often, the necessary care work that generates and sustains our lives occurs at the margins of the economy, unaccounted for and under-recognized. Spain-based activist [Stacco Troncoso](https://stacco.works/) is part of a movement to change that. Troncoso, a member of the Guerrilla Media Cooperative, is part of a collective developing a new model—the DisCO, or Distributed Cooperative Organization. It’s a set of organizational tools and practices for people who want to work together in a cooperative, commons-oriented, and feminist economic form. It’s also an alternative to the logic of blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs. **[Register here](https://cloud.medlab.host/apps/forms/form/9ewtcuacnmye2lrz)**, and [here is a map to the CASE building on CU Boulder's campus](https://www.colorado.edu/map/?id=336#!m/347439). Read more about the DisCO concept at _[Hacker Noon](https://hackernoon.com/last-night-a-distributed-cooperative-organization-saved-my-life-a-brief-introduction-to-discos-4u5cv2zmn)_.