We are an international network of educators, community-builders, activists, learners, and dreamers who call ourselves the travellers and crew of the Valparaíso ship. We are made up of our  crew, local hubs, travelling fellows, online participants, partner organizations, and the many living beings who shape the places we work in. We are anchored in non-formal education focused on both theoretical and practical regeneration, with a clear political orientation toward post-growth, post-development, regenerative, and decolonial practices. Our work is both experimental and rooted: we learn by doing, we codify what works, and we share what we learn back into the world. 

The New Pirate Economy is the movement that our ship brings to the world. It is a practical and conceptual framework for reimagining economic life in a time of global transition/polycrisis. It brings together insights from regenerative economics, post-growth and degrowth, decolonial thinking, political ecology, commons, alternative ways of governance, post-development, intentional community practice, and much more to offer a pathway toward economies that allow for all beings to thrive in harmony.

Every person who becomes part of the Valparaíso can therefore call themselves a “pirate”: not an erratic outlaw, but a symbol of courage, autonomy, collective intelligence, and the refusal to obey exploitative systems. Historically, pirates created alternative social orders at the edges of empire; today, we reinterpret that spirit to explore new ways of organizing value, work, resources, and community that are cooperative, ecological, and just.