The shared salon.
The salon was never merely an event. In the Viennese tradition it is an intimate room where theory, practice and culture meet: a conversation among people who have something to say and can listen to one another.
The seminars of the Studium Generale take place primarily live online. Physical gatherings in Vienna, Zug, Istria and Madeira, as well as small gatherings around the world, complement this continuous digital work. A portion of the conversations is kept privately so that good exchanges can be revisited and deepened.
This intimacy is a precondition of insight, which can take no account of sensitivities; trust rests on reciprocity. The limit of 144 seats creates the circle in which both become practical.
One decision that lasts.
Participation begins with a one-time inscription. It opens one of 144 perpetual Salon Seats, twelve by twelve, and is not renewed annually. More seats will never be granted.
After full payment the seat may be freely transferred and resold. Seminars of the Studium Generale, Privatissima, travel, accommodation and special formats are booked separately when attended.
As a founding gift, each first acquirer receives, when it appears, a signed and hand-numbered copy of the Katallaxie edition of «Win-Win», Rahim Taghizadegan's world history of exchange and power, together with the audiobook.
About the Katallaxie edition →144 · twelve by twelve · zwölf mal zwölf
Salon Seat 144
CHF 1,440 · once
- A perpetual seat in the salon limited to 144 seats
- The salon's conversations, to listen again
- The digital library: twenty years of condensed reading
- Privatissima on one's own decisions, questions and ventures, reserved for seat holders
- Access to the primarily online live seminars of the Studium Generale without curricular obligation; attendance is booked separately
- Preferred invitations to gatherings and journeys
Payment acquires the participation and access right described here.
§What access means
The salon holds seminars and courses, dinners, long conversations and private work on individual questions. The salon's seminar series is the Studium Generale: the shared work on the theory and practice of the Austrian school. It is the social and educational threshold into scholarium, not the institution as a whole. The evenings move through four fields: money, capital, places and culture.
Privatissima make room for questions that fit no group: an important personal decision, a difficult theoretical problem, an entrepreneurial, scholarly or cultural venture, or orientation in education and the course of a life.
The circle is deliberately small because tested knowledge, lived experience and confidentiality are not indefinitely scalable. Hence the 144.