Nora Tofigh – Economics for the Human Spirit

NORA TOFIGH

Founder & CEO, Colla Nexus | Director, Trops Foundation

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.

The question is: What are we busy about?"

-Henry David Thoreau

Hello, I'm Nora.

My background spans biochemistry, French literature, economics, business, digital marketing, coaching, and years of building things at the edge of culture and commerce. What connects all of it is a genuine interest in how communities exchange and what infrastructure makes that possible. Trops Foundation creates curatorial journalism and supports the arts landscape with community programming. Colla Nexus builds the platform layer for cultural discovery and participation. I'm based in Brooklyn, New York City.

TROPS MAGAZINE

Excited to present the second issue of the Trops Magazine with the Trops Foundation, a community organization sharing and curating a cross-genre cross-section of contemporary Culture.

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CURRENT VENTURE

I am passionate about leveraging my diverse perspective to empower the Human Spirit, support Cultural Development and enable Community Economics. Learn More

Culture as Infrastructure

Excerpts from Literary Works

GALBRAITH: The Vested Interest in Output

"Who is most dependent on the present illusion?" Galbraith on the mythology of the producer and why culture gets misclassified as waste. Part of the Culture as Infrastructure series by Nora Tofigh.

E.F. SCHUMACHER: Economics as if People Mattered

"I certainly never feel discouraged. I can't myself raise the winds that might blow us or this ship into a better world. But I can at least put up the sail so that when the wind comes, I can catch it."

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ATTAR OF NISHAPUR: The Simorgh

Throughout the world men separately conceived An image of its shape, and all believed Their private fantasies uniquely true.

JANE JACOBS: The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk

"The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself." Jacobs on the self-organizing life of cities — and what kills it block by block.

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IBN SINA: The Canon of What We Know

"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."

FRANKOPAN: Where Empires Were Made

"Two millennia ago, silks made by hand in China were being worn in the Mediterranean, while pottery manufactured in France could be found in England and the Persian Gulf."

The Human Cloud: Workforce Management in the Gig Economy | Nora Tofigh | IEEE 5G World Forum 2018

Human Cloud

In 2018, I gave a talk at the IEEE 5G World Forum on the emerging human cloud, the peer-to-peer economy of liquid, specialized talent reshaping how cities work and who gets to participate in them. The questions I was asking then about workforce, platform infrastructure, and what it means to build economic systems around human agency rather than institutional convenience are the same questions Trops is built to answer.

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