In Search of Agency at the Supermarket

Our overtly individualized world would like to have us believe that agency is the capacity to act “independently.” But in their own search for increased agency, Bryan Wolff and Marc Vermeeren have found the opposite to be true. In this talk they speak to their journey of pursuing interdependence over independence, both as a new creative collective and in the collective’s first project: “HyperCOOP,” a reimagining of the cooperative supermarket, extending ownership to workers, customers and planet alike.