Making banks: Speculative, central, decentralised, impossible.
Copenhagen Business School, 10 September 2025, 10.30–12.30.

The Finance and Society Network (FSN) and the Organizations, Markets and Governance Research Group (OMG) at Copenhagen Business School are hosting a half-day design workshop on the theme of banking.

The workshop invites participants to collectively imagine and prototype bank-making, ranging from the speculative and the central to the decentralised and even the impossible. It is a dynamic, hands-on session that demonstrates how design can open up novel ways of analysing and reconfiguring matters of concern in finance and society. Rather than treating banks as stable, taken-for-granted organisations, the workshop positions them as socio-technical assemblages of devices, human actors, representations, and networks that can be analysed and reshaped through creative intervention and organisational design practice. By blending design methods with insights from the social sciences, the workshop offers tools for rethinking finance as a site of experimentation. No prior design experience is required, nor any detailed technical expertise in money and banking – only a willingness to speculate, prototype, and reimagine.

Participation is limited to 25 people and registration is required. To register for a place, please write to koraycaliskan@newschool.edu. More information available on the event page.