Kolo is the name of a circle dance — and a village dances whole. Beside the therapies live the crafts: carpentry and vegetable gardens, photography and translation, moving help and repairs. At the door nobody asks what you are — they ask what you bring. The pilot starts in Lisbon, in October.
The same app, the same map, the same rules. Four screens:
Care and Craft, side by sideLeonor composes her kolo with «Craft» selected — pottery and tiles lit, inside Hands & workshop. The switch changes register; the ring stays in the same circle as those who heal.
The whole village on the mapMargarida searches for «sewing» and finds Conceição lit up in Campo de Ourique, right beside those who care — this is how anyone sees Kolo before they have an account. Crafts have their six families — Hands & workshop · Land & table · Sitting · Moving & transport · Image, word & music · Digital & admin.
A public page, the same for everyonekolo.pt/leonor: twenty years in clay, the whole photograph in black and white, the QR code for the counter or the market stall. You publish when you want, and unpublish in one gesture.
Craft searches tooLeonor is looking for massage — for the back a wheel bends over all day — and photography, for the pieces she makes. It is the face of someone asking: craft pulling in care and craft, trading instead of buying.
A conversation with consent, a meeting arranged, a rating on both sides. And it crosses with care all the time:
Help with a website in exchange for somatic movement — each paying in the currency she has.
A shelf made to measure, a back at peace. The oldest exchange in the world — now with a record, consent and a rating.
The handyman gets the same Guardian Angel the masseuse does: someone who knows where you are, until you say all is well.
Crafts are asked for no council and no diploma. What opens craft publishing is the vouch of a member who knows your work — and the rest are everyone’s same laws:
There are no «therapist profiles» and no «craftsperson profiles» — there are people, and what each one brings. It is enforced in the code.
The map answers the search, never the payer. No featured slots for sale, no bought places.
The exchange is yours, the price is yours, the money never passes through us.
Seven posts a week in the circles, most recent first. The rest is quiet.
One honesty: the Compass and the constellation — the instruments of fine search — serve care for now. Crafts are found on the Atlas, on the pages and in the circles; full symmetry comes with time, not with promises.
The quota is the same for those who heal and those who make — and it only begins after Kolo has been worth three confirmed exchanges to you. No commissions, no extras. During the pilot, nobody is charged anything.
The October pilot is born in Lisbon, Sintra and Almada with thirty people — and crafts are part of the round from day one. If you make with your hands and want to be on the map, write to us.