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Written by Prisca Braga | Reading Time: 12 mins When new pirates arrive at Adventures of the Valparaíso , they are often curious about how we organize our daily learning. Many come from institutional education systems built entirely around competition, individual testing, linear metrics of success, and a hyper-specialized drive toward market productivity. However, we reject its underlying premise here.

Written by Prisca Braga | Reading Time: 8 mins At the Adventures of the Valparaíso , our work is continuously informed by a global network of activists, artists, researchers, changemakers, and community organizers. We are constantly asked for our go-to reading lists and media recommendations by volunteers, interns, and workshop participants, so we have compiled this open-access toolkit of books that we find valuable.

Written by Prisca Braga | Reading Time: 10 mins If you follow alternative economics or ecological activism, you have likely noticed a major shift in vocabulary. Words like “sustainability” and even “circular economy” are increasingly giving way to a much deeper imperative: Regeneration. But what does regeneration actually mean when we strip away the marketing buzzwords? Today we will work with a handbook titled Tools for Regenerative Practice: 30 Frameworks, Exercises and Methods in Service of Human and Planetary Flourishing provides a nice blueprint.

Written by Prisca Braga | Reading Time: 6 mins In our first post , we introduced the core compass of our organization: the New Pirate Economy , which anchors us in frameworks such as post-growth/degrowth, post-development, the pluriverse, political ecology, and socio-economic regeneration. But to understand how we actually practice these ideas, it helps to look at our own history. For many years, our actual office and headquarters was a ship navigating the Amsterdam canals. Today, our main base is on land in Oostzaan, in a farm.

Written by Prisca Braga | Reading Time: 5 mins The polycrisis and the birth of new ways of existing The world is currently drifting through what is called a “polycrisis”. While mainstream institutions often treat climate change, economic inequality, and socio-political breakdowns as isolated technical problems to be fixed with better policy, decolonial thinkers view them as symptoms of a deeper civilizational collapse.