Independent Researcher  en résidence at Samouraï Governance Research Lab Introduction This year, in 2025, Samouraï Coop is launching the Samouraï Governance Research Lab : an embedded research space dedicated to exploring cooperative, decentralized, and commons-oriented organizational models. It is within this context that I am pleased to join the team as a researcher-in-residence. I am Maël Rolland, a socio-economist with a Ph.D. in Economics and Social Sciences from EHESS, specializing in...

1. Who We Are For eight years, Samouraï Coop  has been imagining, experimenting with, studying, and building the foundations of a new generation of social and distributed organizations. By its nature, DNA, and culture, our organization has always seen itself as a collective laboratory —at the crossroads of technology, art, and society. Our deliberate rejection of modern marketing methods and our dissatisfaction with conventional organizational models have led us to forge a distinct identity :...