The Hologram

The Hologram is viral four-person health monitoring and diagnostic protocol practiced from couches all over the world. In it, three non-expert participants create a three-dimensional “hologram” of a fourth participant’s physical, psychological and social health, and each becomes, the focus of three other people’s care in an expanding network.

Since it publicly launched in March 2020, The Hologram has also become a community of its practitioners. Many of them teach the protocol and keep learning about decentralized, cooperative creation of stability and collective health to survive and fight capitalism.

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The Hologram project has been supported by institutions such as Furtherfield gallery, A Blade of Grass foundation, Pirate.Care research network, Eyebeam fellowship program, The NewBridge Project, Creatures (Creative Resourcefulness for Sustainable Futures), and more.
The Hologram: A Peer-to-Peer Protocol for Post-pandemic Future book by Cassie Thornton was published by Pluto Press in 2020 and sold over 1500 copies. It summarizes the protocol and its wider connections to the fight for anti-capitalist liberation.
As of the end of 2021, The Hologram has hold 4 online public courses (each for ca 25 people), over 20 workshops for groups and institutions interested in cooperative care practices, and over 100 peer-to-peer facilitated online Minimum Hologram session for four friends wanting to try on The Hologram. All for free.

You can find more about The Hologram at: thehologram.xyz