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Leeds Creative Timebank
Ethics, Values and Aims
The Leeds Creative Timebank is a working alternative to a failing cash-based economy and value system
It aims to build a new sustainable economic structure that can operate inside the shell of a fast failing money led economy
LCTB is for the Leeds-based creative community. Its ethics include flexibility, transparency, free sharing of information, critical reflection and the production of alternatives to existing economic models
These ethics reflect its values
We uphold a non-hierarchical, decentralised and contingent ethos that allows for, and expects, the maximum participation of those who join
The Timebank is both the critique of, and creation of an alternative to, a system we believe is unsustainable. It should as such not to be seen as stop-gap measure during the recession but instead as an ambitious project to be appreciated as a thing-in-itself, not a means-to-an-end
These underlying ethics and core-values should themselves be understood as mutable and open to debate by participants in the scheme
www.leedscreativetimebank.co.uk
The poster shown above was displayed at Tate Modern Library Exhibition 2010