We are...
...the artists, curators and (sometimes) visionaries of the social design studio Wooloo and the artistic community Wooloo.org, the world's first online community for professional artists.
For over a decade, we've curated and matched exceptional people together for some of the world’s most prominent events such as the Venice Biennale, UN Climate Summits, Creative Time Summits and many others.
We're currently based out of an old chocolate factocry in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Background
Since 2002, we've worked with human matchmaking as our artistic format.
Back in school, in the days before Facebook (and even Myspace), we had the idea to create a social network for matching artists with exhibition organizers. This became Wooloo.org
A few years later we moved to Berlin and opened up a shop in Mitte where you could request a new life.
(No one came in except a guy called Randy, who later became our Social Chef.)
We also ran a dating service called Avantgarde Dating where we matched artists as couples based solely on their work. The idea was to challenge the concept of monogamy.
In NYC we took experimental matching to the next level with our Life Exchange. Participants left a Chelsea townhouse with each others clothes, keys, wallets and lives.
Back in Europe, we organized a festival that matched artists, creative projects and experimental architects with unused Berlin spaces.
(What a trip! Berlin was still full of cheap spaces back then).
Our festival favourite was Fictive Days, a project that invited people to live as their preferred fictional character for 2 weeks...
(and stay in character of course!)
...and two of them ended up getting married - for real!
(They're still married today)
Then came the UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen where we helped 3,000 activists find housing by matching them to local hosts.
(Here's a Peruvian shaman conducting a ritual for Mother Earth with her Danish host)
After that big job, we moved down in scale and asked a small Danish village to stop watching TV for a week and adopt their neighbor's life instead.
(Watch that story unfold itself here)
Commissioned to create a work for the Manifesta 8 biennial, we matched 5 international artists with 5 blind locals to live and produce work together in a completely dark space.
The City of Copenhagen hired us to create a 3yr. program for visiting artists to live with local hosts, collaborate on projects, and publicly exhibit the results inside their private homes.
A science conference requested our help with hosting 30 scientific Ph.D students so we reached out to a large community of beekeepers and matched them together.
(This resulted in a ton of home-brewed mead)
Oh, forgot to mention that we also invented a Spiritual Council that matched local politicians with clairvoyants helping them to look into the future.
(watch the film about this unique collaboration)
Or that we built a huge candy machine and publicly sold edible sweets made from the hair of bankers guilty of 'insider trading' during the financial crisis.
Wait, that's got nothing to do with matching people!?
After years of matching inspiring individuals, we launched Human Hotel as a travel community for all of you working hard to make this world a more fun, fair and resourceful place.
Humans. Not hotels.