{"signature": "0x893a49d02babed9f669ed3968662f287897f0c23f7b127a77a5c72bf1063366d3fd78b90b1a2ca0f93d27dfa7c99989c9ace31fbcbf73d79860f949b3639bfab1c", "application": {"round": "0x487FB600a0627b1eE95bF280C5c8Bd415E0bE58a", "answers": [{"type": "email", "answer": "michellehuang42@gmail.com", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0}, {"type": "number", "answer": "10", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Not formally"], "hidden": false, "question": "Is your project a member or past grantee of one of these networks?", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Some key active goals, plans, objectives or milestones for this year:\n\n- Community launch event: We will formally open our community space in Komoro, Nagano to the public with a launch event, inviting neighbors, regional stakeholders, and global collaborators to engage with the site and its vision.\n\n- Run a spring residency on Speculative Worlds: A transdisciplinary residency exploring how speculative design, ecological futures, and cultural history can inform rural regeneration. Participants include a futures-trained art professor, an artist that experiments with biofabricated textiles and sustainable fashion, a researcher writing on the future of nation-states and economies, and a mindfulness retreat practitioner.. Through this gathering, we will create different speculative design frameworks and artifacts, including contemplating regenerative spatial governance, the physicality of an aging rural site and its surrounding ecology.\n\n- Engage the community with public workshops on regenerative materials and traditional craft including bamboo-based design and bio-yarn & biodegradable prototyping\n\n- Facilitate a group build constructing a teahouse built entirely from wood donated by a local farmer, and led by a craftsman trained on Japanese wooden joinery techniques\n\n- Expand community stewardship of abandoned land and properties: Support and document the stewardship of additional akiya (abandoned) homes, adding to our current network of 5 properties in our core neighborhood (Komoro, Nagano), and 5 “sister akiyas” in satellite regions: Fukuoka, Osaka, Okayama, and other parts of Nagano. We aim to assist new stewards in home acquisition, local integration, and responsible renovation.\n\n- Create an educational art installation: Create a site-specific, community-built installation focused on regenerative uses of land and materials, preservation of artifacts, and rural storytelling through spatial design.\n\n- Publish a replicable blueprint for revitalization: Add to our existing operational playbook, a field guide to regenerative rural coordination, covering governance design templates, renovation & waste management best practices, legal & logistical tips for working with municipalities and property owners, principles of place-based public goods design. 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In our community of 1,000+ people, there are already members who have committed to purchasing property near our base. Through our project, we are actively supporting a network of home owners in acquiring, renovating, and operating properties in tight-knit regions for cohabitation and coworking.\n\nDuring this grant round, we are looking to crowdfund for additional renovations for our first community home, support for other akiya owners in our network, and preparation for two residency cohorts planned for 2025.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "akiyacollective"}, "recipient": "0x02D0DC98E494acd94f344468ffC3d3788d3d29Cd"}}