THE
DANUBIAN BANK
The Danubian Bank (DB) is an artistic project that creates reflective relations towards the tacit knowledge of economic transactions through the issuing of community currencies.
In early 2022 it will launch the Störling and Grundl currencies, which can be used at the institutions listed below.
The Störling is pegged to the Euro (1ST = 1€) while the Grundl is a non-fungible coin that can be acquired through a free donation and functions as a substitute for the cents.
Both currencies can be acquired at certified Exchange Offices (listed below) and will be in circulation until January 2025.
Mission
50% of the acquired value of the currencies will be donated to the Life Sterlet Project in Vienna. The aim of the project is to strengthen the wild population of the sterlet and to re-establish healthy, self-sustaining populations in various sections of the Danube.
The other 50% will be spent in internal Danubian Bank community projects.
This project creates a basis for critical reflection about our relation to money and currencies. Beyond that, the Störling and Grundl foster awareness around the Sturgeon fish and are a mode of project funding. The Danubian Bank did officially open its first exchange office on the 13th of January 2022.
The Störling will be distributed by certified offices and can be used by a network of actors that accept it. These actants can exchange the bills at a certified office or the central bank for Euros 4 times in the year.
Team & Community
The main collaborators are the CDS Department at the university of applied arts in Vienna, Technologie und das Unheimliche and the ado/aptive collective. But the Danubian Bank is always open for collaborators and is constantly expanding its network.
The Danubian Bank is currently looking for partners that would be interested in distributing or accepting its currencies as to increase its societal reach.
If you are interested, please contact us at : adoaptive@protonmail.com
Partner Institutions
- Central Garden
(Untere Donaustraße 41, 1020 Wien) - school (Grüngasse 22,1050 Wien)
- alienze (Fendigasse 26, 1050 Wien)
- Cafe Flöge (Emilie-Flöge-Weg 4)
- PLOT TOY (Events and Lable, Wien)
Exchange Offices
- Danubian Central Bank (DCB)
(Raaber-Bahn-Gasse 10) - Cafe Flöge
(Emilie-Flöge-Weg 4)
Contact
adoaptive[at]protonmail.com
