SHIFT: Entering Digital Economies & SHIFT: Becoming Onchain

SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO – GUEST SESSION FIVE
SHIFT: Entering Digital Economies
Workshop with Géraldine Honauer, Part One, 15:15-16:45

A world built from movement, value, and code begins the moment you enter it. SHIFT opens a space where digital fashion, digital work, and questions of sustainability converge.
Here, architecture is made of contracts, behaviour, and attention. The environment reacts to you, shifts around you, and draws lines between body, screen, and system.
We step into the world together and watch how structures open and paths unfold.
Every gesture becomes work, material, trace. A reminder that digital economies operate beneath the surface, and that blockchain and smart contracts shape interactions long before they are named. Sustainability takes form through how communities build value and independence, shaping their own economic space with their own tokens and tools. Digital fashion becomes a carrier of labour and a shifting measure of worth, revealing how identity, work, and resource flows intertwine inside virtual environments.
We look closely at how digital space organises relation, how it holds attention, and how our presence becomes part of its architecture. SHIFT invites a way of sensing that begins with movement, and a way of understanding that emerges from how a world responds to you.

Participant Information: Smartphone needed. No preparation is required.

Additional Information: During the WORLDMAKING MATTERS 2026 symposium, Metaquest headsets will be available for exploring the SHIFT metaverse world and the XR environment of Currents.

SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO – GUEST SESSION SIX
SHIFT: Becoming Onchain
Workshop with Géraldine Honauer, Part Two, 17:00-18:30

We enter the second part of the workshop by shifting from online experience to onchain presence. A wallet is created. A small amount of SHIFT tokens will be distributed to each participant. A simple action, yet one that changes position: you are no longer outside the network, but inside it, part of the SHIFT economy. Your actions now start to matter within its system architecture.
Onchain space carries memory and responsibility. It distributes agency, builds communities through shared tools, and reveals how value circulates across a decentralised system.
Smart contracts quietly govern movement, defining what is possible, what is exchanged, and how relations are held in place.
We explore how resources flow, how trust is constructed, and how digital labour appears within these technological environments. The session invites questions about sustainability in systems that are persistent yet fragile, and about how new economies can be imagined when the foundations are programmable and transparent.

Participant Information: Smartphone or computer needed. Please install the app Metamask before the workshop and follow the step-by-step installation guide. The most important part is to store your private key and seed phrase safely so they cannot be lost. https://metamask.io/download

Further Information on the Workshops with Géraldine Honauer:
The contribution of Currents.systems and SHIFT to WORLDMAKING MATTERS. extends the symposium’s questions into the digital field, where worlds are built through attention, movement and relation as much as through material practices. Both workshops look at sustainability not as a static principle but as a structural process – something that unfolds in the way systems behave, how value is shaped, and how communities organise themselves across physical, virtual, and onchain environments.

Currents.systems explores how invisible flows and signals create ecological architectures, and how responsibility begins with noticing what moves beneath the surface. SHIFT continues this line of inquiry by entering digital fashion and digital work as spaces where new economic textures emerge. Here, labour becomes gesture, value becomes relational, and technology becomes a medium for collective imagination.

Together, the workshops propose a simple but expansive idea: worlds are made not only through what we produce, but through how we maintain, observe and participate in the systems around us. This approach aligns with the symposium’s interest in worldmaking as a shared and evolving practice, inviting participants to sense how digital ecologies shape the futures we choose to build.

Géraldine Honauer is an artist and system architect working across digital infrastructures, collective practices, and experimental publishing. Her projects explore how systems shape social and environmental relations, moving between online platforms, performative technologies, and spatial communication.
Her work has been presented at Ars Electronica and recognised by the Swiss Art Awards. She has participated in several international residencies, developing research on digital ecologies and collaborative frameworks. With SHIFT, she investigates value and labor in virtual and onchain environments. With Currents.systems, she treats data as material and data performance as a form of collective world-making.
www.geraldinehonauer.com
www.shiftwork.cc
www.currents.system
https://www.instagram.com/geraldinehonauer

Registration: roswitha.gabriel@plus.ac.at

Concept, Organization and Host: Doris Posch

This Guest Session is taking place in the context of WORLDMAKING MATTERS. International Multi-Day Symposium on Sustainable Fashion, Design and Arts, 15 Dec 2025 and 17 – 19 Jan 2026