{"signature": "0x3a9fc44f9448ff9e2bb2835fcac32a36b79d598ffa57cfa74cba01eee9bf07b839addc27e24880fbc119986227cf76c3d74c7d863a40b08dee1eaffb1a9ff33e1b", "application": {"round": "0x2dc916986323e957874d12ce425a012318f2f3fe", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "Bg2Mw4W3bi/sA6IW4gFPFYMYMFnjhHBT8IyFUMKARdYoWlJa+JBFLwsFRodQfuR3", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "9f037cc36df2e5fba13640401724390896fe796765e7f8e568353ce706b799a6b3b2b580e0fd784416353994caeda3053718798ec3fd33b4b446e9af8aa06d5edeed64dd118a623d033cda44819afb48815088b369b0318513c7434eb892b1aa4df542fb921375cbe34a97eb634fab1b054afd4a2913492abafe9c04f4d687ae0000000000000020a4e04962db57459d65737d7279404c9b4ae66527b6271b6200ecb4717414158e293c5cf3687a826836be6864c9c94ba4"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Masterminding Eden Horizons", "hidden": false, "question": "Name of your event?", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Website: https://www.mastermindingeden.com/ Public Telegram Group Chat: https://t.me/+NpClgGmVHSszZWNh", "hidden": false, "question": "Share the public communication channels for your event (website, social media, messenger groups, email)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Camara Cassin, Zuzalu 2023 attendance - 60 days", "hidden": false, "question": "Name of the person responsible for the event and the duration of their Zuzalu/ZuConnect attendance", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "21", "hidden": false, "question": "Duration of the event, in consecutive days", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "50-60", "hidden": false, "question": "Numbers of long-term attendees the event is reasonably expecting to host", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "1: Ethereum, ZK 2: Public Goods, Decentralized Governance 3: Crypto Cities (ie: Network Nations, Digital Nations, Network States)", "hidden": false, "question": "Groups of Zuzalu thought-schools the event is substantially dedicated to", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "1: We aim to explore using Ethereum and ZK technology as a digital backbone and privacy solution in the future city model we will design. 2: For our city model, we aim to build a governance framework that incorporates the principles of decentralization as well as supports public goods.  3: We aim to experiment with different human coordination and economic systems for our city model. For example, we aim to explore the role of DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) as a foundation of labor organization and/or explore introducing a digital currency called $pace. As of now, $pace is the conceptual value framework within the Masterminding Eden project, representing the volume of space available for community use, whether for homes, factories, or farms. The cost varies by location and usage, linking each $pace to a share in Masterminding Eden, ensuring community members have a vested interest in the well-being of both the city and the corporation. $pace serves as a coordination mechanism, fostering stewardship and responsibility through a blockchain-mediated system, enabling self-sovereign currency issuance and democratic governance. This framework enhances community engagement, shared responsibility, and inter-project cooperation, promoting a sustainable and vibrant network state", "hidden": false, "question": "Elements that dedicate the event substantially to these thought-schools", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Attendees of the Masterminding Eden event are only obligated to comply with one non-optional aspect of the event design - that is, to attend the entirety or most of the event. This is because the goal of the gathering, designing the city-creation mastermind, requires that the collaborators have full context on the mission, are informed about the multiple domains that go into new city-creation, and have built trust with each other.   There are no other prerequisites or mandatory actions required to join. We favor an environment that encourages free association and participation, fostering maximum creativity without coercion. All activities and sessions are entirely voluntary, allowing attendees to engage in ways that best suit their interests and contributions.", "hidden": false, "question": "In what ways are attendees obligated to comply with non-optional aspects of the event design? Is there any action or prerequisite necessary to join? Is there anything on the event, that is not optional for the attendee to opt-in to?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Attendance is fully voluntary.\nWhile ME:Horizons will have a structure to make sure that all the workshops and discussions are organized and on-track with the ultimate goal of building the city of the future, participants will be fully autonomous, able to govern the schedule, and self-organize as they wish as long as it’s aligned with the main objective of Masterminding Eden.", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the aspects of the event effectively allowing for bottom-up dynamics to arise", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "*Accommodation in close proximity.* The location allows for the attendees to live close to each other, which increases the relationship-building potential.\n\n*Shared Meals.* From the Zuzalu and ZuConnect experiences, breaking bread together is one of the key drivers of deep human connection and serendipitous conversations.\n\n*Open Source Culture.* Masterminding Eden does not seek to claim any of the ideas, plans, or insights that come out of ME:Horizons or the main Mastermind in April, 2025. Instead, we aim to share the results of our collective intellectual labor with the attendees and the world, sparking great projects, communities, and city-building thought schools.", "hidden": false, "question": "What are aspects of the event advocating for relationships and communities to organically form", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. The schedule will be flexible, allowing for ammends and self-organization as we learn what the best way to move forward is.\n2. We aim to use Social Layer (SoLa) as an effective calendar/self-organization scheduling software.\n3. We aim to host multiple feedback sessions with residents designed to refine the event approach, schedule, and programming.\n4. The venue will have enough space to accommodate for self-organized activities both indoors and outdoors.", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the aspects that allow attendees the permissionless co-organisation of the event (accessibility of schedule programming, availability of venue space and dedicated time)", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "- Climate Change\n- Metacrisis\n- Game B\n- Startup Societies\n- Regenerative Design\n- Decentralized Governance\n- Circular Economy\n- Permaculture\n- Biomimicry\n- Holistic Management\n- Sustainable Architecture\n- Socio-Ecological Resilience\n- Digital Democracy\n- Human-Centered Design\n- Transformative Justice\n- Integral Theory\n- Ecological Economics\n- Engineering Innovation", "hidden": false, "question": "Which other themes or thought-schools will be present in your event?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. By using Social Layer (SoLa), that allows for community members to create self-organized, location-tied events in the available time.\n2. We treat every attendee of ME:Horizons as an equal contributor, dedicated to achieving the grand vision of Masterminding Eden. Thus, each attendee will be able and incentivized to influence the programming significantly and self-organize for side discussions and workshops.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you expect to foster community contributions and bottom-up development of programming? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Yes.", "hidden": false, "question": "Does your project plan to give out zupass-compatible membership passes to your attendees?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Other than Zuzalu Q1 - no.", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received any other funding for this project? If so, how much and from what sources? (See Rule 5)", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Masterminding Eden took part in the Zuzalu Q1 round, receiving 2.52 ETH + 122 DAI (~$8,000).\n\n| Date | Amount | Expense |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 10/5/2023 | $20 | Go Daddy (Domain) |\n| 4/8/2024 | $1,000 | Project management, IT Set up, administration  (4 week period) |\n| 5/15/2024 | $1,000 | Project management, knowledge hub creation,  administration  (4 week period) |\n| 5/24/2024 | $33 | Typeform account |\n| 6/4/2024 | $180 | Wix Website |\n| 6/24/2024 | $33 | Typeform account |\n| 6/28/2024 | $1,500 | Project management,NGO creation and registration, administration  (6 week period) |\n| 7/2/2024 | $500 | Social Media Kickoff, Gitcoin grant application reimbursement (2-week period) |\n| 7/4/2024 | $26.88 | Wix Website |\n| 2/31/2024 | $100 | Upwork: Pitch deck |\n| Total spent: | $4,392 |  |\n\n*The rest of the funds are currently stored in ETH in our wallet for further expenses. (~1.24 ETH)*\n\nOur project was not involved in any kickbacks in exchange for contributions.", "hidden": false, "question": "Did either you, or the project, or its predecessor participate in the Zuzalu-Gitcoin Q1 Events Round? If that is the case, please share how much funding you receive and detail how these funds were used? Was your project involved in (non-monetary) kickbacks that were given out in exchange for contributions in?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Did any of the organizing members involved in this event (or its predecessor) receive or hold funds awarded to the Zuzalu project as part of Optimism’s Retro PGF round 3? If so, please share in detail how much, when, and on what basis of justification were these funds received by you?", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No", "hidden": true, "question": "Did you, or any organizing members involved in this event involved in your project or its successor or predecessor, hold Optimism Retro PGF funds in the Name of Zuzalu? Please make sure that the funds have been sent to vitalik.eth before applying in order for your project to be eligible.", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We will use the funds received in the Q2 to: \n\n1. Pay the location, accommodation, and other organizing costs\n2. Pay the team members involved in organizing ME:Horizons\n3. If we have any funds after the main organizing expenses, we aim to give it out as scholarships to our attendees", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe how you will use the funds received from this round?", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We believe that SoLa, for scheduling purposes, and ZuPass, for security/ticketing purposes, are compatible with ETH ecosystem standards, as well as used by multiple projects in the Zuzalu ecosystem.\n\nWe also aim to use Ethereum as a method of payment for tickets.", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your blockchain-facing tech maximally compatible with Ethereum and common Ethereum ecosystem standards? If so, how?", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "By submitting an application, you agree to the following: 1) provide a statement on Zuzagora (or it’s successor) on how the funds received through this round were used one month after the event ends. In case your event has not fully happened within 2024, all unused funds must be returned, used funds must be publicly accounted for. Please confirm you understand this. ", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "**Our Problems**\n\nWe, as humanity, are facing multiple urgent problems. We've crossed planetary boundaries, causing ecological tipping points and cataclysmic events due to greenhouse gas emissions, pollution, deforestation, and biodiversity loss. Our current civilization system is fragile and toxic, exacerbated by short-term thinking and ignorance. \n\nOur primary challenge is transforming our civilization into one that is resilient, regenerative, and capable of reversing the current environmental damage. This transformation requires shifting from an extractive, competitive mentality to one of cooperation, resource-sharing, and ecological stewardship. We need to build an Advanced Ecological Civilization that supports all life through a regenerative economy, sustainable technologies, and a new culture rooted in unity with nature.\n\nOur real issue is not a lack of technological solutions but a coordination and implementation problem, compounded by various crises, including mental health, climate, ecological, economic, geopolitical, and more. This complex \"metacrisis\" calls for a collective effort to create a system that sustains the planet and humanity far into the future.\n\n**Our Team**\n\nThe Masterminding Eden team consists of 40+ experts and includes scientists, engineers, solutionist entrepreneurs, and sensemakers, serving as contributors and advisors to the project. We collectively brainstorm and ideate on the design of the 2025 Mastermind event (incl. the structure, location, tracks, collaboration systems, etc.), while also utilizing the vast high-level networks to attract the right people to support the cause. Many of our team members and core contributors are Zuzalu residents & visitors who attended for more than a week.\n\nZuzalu: Camara Cassin, Gary Sheng, Nicholas Brigham Adams, Cassie Shih, Jesse Katz, Kristof DeSpiegeleer, Deger Turan\n\nZuConnect: Gary Sheng, Timofei Dort-Golts, Cassie Shih, Jesse Katz\n\nVitalia: Timofei Dort-Golts, Jesse Katz\n\nEdge Esmeralda: Camara Cassin, Jesse Katz, Jordan Sukut, Eli Whipple, Michel Bauwens, \n\n**Our Budget**\n\nTake a look at our v1 budgeting system here:  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QYEpJiwa8jEYCYqOIh6jSLrqOZaiCmjx/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107754540422549554837&rtpof=true&sd=true\n\nBesides QF we plan on funding the event through Access Pass Sales, Sponsorship, Grants and Donations.\n\n**Our Progress**\n\n- We have secured the venue in Tuscany, Italy as well as came up with the 50-person attendance list for the ME:Horizons event that includes core team members, prominent philanthropists, and founding supporters\n- Found new amazing contributors, bringing the core team to 40 members\n- Created online collaboration board and groups\n- Held regular meetings since Jan 2024 to align visions, plans, and specify event details\n- Formed a working group to organize the month-long event\n- Identified and reached an agreement with a value-aligned venue in Switzerland that can host 300+ people onsite\n- Developed high-level agenda, goals, attendee profiles and list\n- Started compiling a database of relevant technologies and systems\n- Created draft project descriptions and proposals\n- Developed a comprehensive v1 budgeting system for the April mastermind event\n- Secured preliminary commitment from approx. 100 attendees\n- Established collaboration with key partner organizations\n- Started our social media presence on Twitter/X and LinkedIn\n- The project has momentum with a dedicated team in place, venue identified, goals aligned, and partner groups on board. The next steps are finalizing the participant list and agenda, and preparing for the collaborative design event in the spring of 2025.\n\n**Our Impact**\n\nWe will measure the impact of our project by how many deliverables we complete from this list:\n\nMain goal: Deliver a blueprint for conceiving and operating a disaster-resilient, regenerative, sustainable city, providing a high quality of life for its residents.\n\n1. Pick a real-world location(s) and develop a plan for a socio-technically operated city representative of community.\n2. Concept model[-ing] specification to produce two- and three-dimensional concept visualizations of what is and what could be.\n3. Written text specification to produce and/ or update articles in a societal-level sociotechnical standard.\n4. Software application specification.\n    1. Residency software (i.e., the human resident and contributing user).\n    2.  Standards development software.\n        1. Text. \n        2. Images. \n        3. Simulations. \n    3.  Collaborative design TEXT-VECTOR-CAD-BIMSIM software: \n        1. TEXT (word processor software for concepts).  \n        2. VECTOR and CAD (2d image models). \n        3. BIM and OIM (3D object models).\n        4. SIM (3D dynamic and real-time interactability) software.\n    4.  Collaborative decision intelligence support software (i.e., decision system software).\n        1. Versioning collaboration deliverable tool.\n    5. Operational support systems software: \n        1. Operating system (i.e., computational system and software).\n        2. Concepting system (e.g., database software).\n        3. Communicating system (e.g., messenger and spatial-web-location development). \n        4. Projecting system (e.g., project coordination software).\n        5. Sciencing system (e.g., scientific software, instrumentation, sensor, and analytics software).\n    6. Operational service software: \n        1. Operator/monitor interface.\n        2. User interface.\n    7.  Software for the market tokenization of access (if market is present).\n5. The city socio-technical simulation. The simple animation through to a full simulation of the habitat, its information sets, material locations and flows.\n6. Put together marketing materials for audiences.\n7. Put together education materials for audiences", "hidden": false, "question": "Explain what problem(s) you’re trying to solve, share any Team Roadmap Budget you may have", "questionId": 22}], "project": {"id": "0xb79868a03bdc724b55f0d8eea199fbf221ed4de0adcde0be2a4f3f27b75807f4", "title": "Masterminding EDEN: Horizons", "logoImg": "bafkreidsdeqje3p6nlcq6wy7rd2dmbexarj3wvdcf7adhfdogkhcsu2s7q", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreido7yvwoiza26su2giiliqw5gzxyw4zf76su7foyxccjdq5n6y7yy", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://mastermindingeden.com", "bannerImg": "bafkreibng2vzvsz7tbhnkvlnaewyr4bs7gn4tf2r3w5hhprvwdnuptkbay", "createdAt": 1721236596439, "credentials": {}, "description": "*What is ME:Horizons?*\n\nMasterminding Eden: Horizons is a 3-week (21-day) collaborative event for the founding contributors and supporters of Masterminding Eden.\n\nIt will take place from December 1 to 21, 2024. We have multiple potential locations that can accommodate 50-60 people in the serene Italian countryside. \n\n*Why are we doing it?* \n\nWe are undertaking a monumental challenge. In April we are gathering 300 world experts for a mastermind. To make this a world-class event that is incredibly productive and reaches our goals we have come to the conclusion that we need to organize an earlier in-person gathering for interested contributors. Thus, Masterminding EDEN Horizons was conceived.\n\nWe sincerely believe that getting the core contributors and supporters together to co-plan the main event will make a major difference in the quality of the main city-creation mastermind. \n\n*What will Masterminding Eden Horizon's be like?*\nFor three weeks we will gather in a retreat-like environment. Participants will share unconference-style and be able to add their events to our public calendar. It will be a light-hearted, open minded, future-focused community environment.\n\n*What to expect*\n- Unconference Style Seminars\n- Scheduled Lectures and Events\n- Break-out groups working on different systems\n- Wellness activities\n- Group Discussion sessions\n- Community organized activities\n- Coherence building \n- Main mastermind design discussion sessions\n\n*What is the main Masterminding Eden event in April?*\n\nMasterminding Eden is an initiative to collaboratively design and build a conceptual model and master plan for a resilient, regenerative, and self-sustaining city. \n\nTo attain this we are bringing together people from diverse fields for a month-long pop-up mastermind taking place on March 30-April 30, 2025. Through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and project acceleration, our group aims to create a framework for future cities that supports an advanced ecological civilization.\n\nWe believe that our civilization stands at a pivotal point as technology, climate disruption, health crises and social tensions transform society in unpredictable ways. Incremental change cannot address such systemic global risks. We urgently need a fundamental redesign of the societal paradigms that govern our institutions and way of life. The time has come to collectively dream, learn, connect and forge the systemic shifts humanity needs to thrive. This gathering offers a space to create - not tweak - operating frameworks attuned to people and the planet over profits. For the future well-being of all life on Earth.\n\nWe will be facilitating the event as a combination of Ephemeral Group Process, Mastermind, and Hackathon.\n\n- Integrating physical infrastructure as well as digital, blockchain, AI and other technologies into the model\n- Creating closed-loop systems for energy, food, waste, water, resources etc.\n- Designing for disaster resilience, ecosystem restoration, and long-term sustainability\n- Exploring new models of governance, economics, social services, transportation, etc.\n- Utilizing advanced simulation software to test different scenarios\n\nResidents will be provided with transportation, accommodation, three delicious meals a day, and plenty of intellectual and social stimulation. Our team is putting special emphasis on community building and coherence. Residents will also have time in their schedule to self-organize thematic or wellness events, as well as keep up on remote work. Our residents will be from all over the world. Our principles are to create systems that help all of humanity and life on Earth.\n\nSome participants stay the whole time, some come and go, and some never come, but participate online. There is learning and education, and everyone is contributing/working toward a common goal creating a solid feeling of community and camaraderie.\n\nThe core team consists of scientists, engineers, architects, entrepreneurs, sensemakers, and other leaders spanning fields like renewable energy, agriculture, technology, design, artificial Intelligence, policy, finance, and more. \n\nWe are collaborating with existing projects and organizations including:\n\n- [Lionsberg Alliance](https://www.lionsberg.org/)\n- [The Venus Project Evolution](https://www.thevenusproject.com/scenarios/venus-evolution/)\n- [HubTropolis](https://hubtropolis.com/)\n- [The Auravana Project](https://auravana.org/)\n- [Earthwise Center](https://www.earthwise.global/)\n- [HyphaDAO](https://hypha.earth/)\n- [Threefold Internet Tech](https://threefold.io/).\n- [Blue Dot Project](https://www.bluedotproject.com/about-us/)\n- [New Earth Developments](https://www.newearthdevelopment.org/)\n- [Nested Ventures](https://www.nestedventures.com/)\n- [Goodly Labs](https://www.goodlylabs.org/)\n- [Ecorestoration Alliance](https://www.ecorestorationalliance.org/)\n- [RegenEarth Studio](https://www.regenearth.studio/)\n- [The AI Objectives Institute](https://ai.objectives.institute/)\n- [Shala](https://shala.us/)\n- [REGENiTECH](https://regenitech.earth/)\n- [HackHumanity](http://www.hackhumanity.com/)\n- [RegenWorld](http://www.regenweek.com/)\n\nOur experiment will not only include digital and social technologies but also combine them with physical infrastructure.\n\nWe are inviting attendees from all systems including, but not limited to:\n\n- Urban Planning and Architecture\n- Renewable Energy and Engineering\n- Water Management\n- Food Systems and Regenerative Agriculture\n- Resource Management, Recycling, and Manufacturing\n- Transportation and Mobility\n- AI, Robotics, and Smart City Solutions\n- Blockchain Technology, and Digital Self-Governance\n- Circular Economics, Regenerative Finance, and Legal\n- Health, Education, and Social Services\n- Environmental Science, Climate Resilience and Ecosystem Restoration\n- Indigenous Wisdom, Art, Culture, and Community Builders\n- Innovation, Polymaths, Sensemakers\n\nThe month-long event incorporates diverse activities for participants, including:\n\n- Seminars and lectures delivered by experts\n- Interactive Q&A sessions where attendees can engage with presenters\n- Independent work time for participants to process concepts or collaborate\n- Small working groups dedicated to developing standards and documentation\n- Intimate discussion sessions in smaller groups to facilitate deeper dialogues\n- Large-scale collaborative working sessions bringing all participants together\n- Community-organized activities, such as discussions, panels, or workshops.\n- Other impactful hands-on engagements and exercises\n\nBoth scheduled sessions on the agenda and spontaneous activities emerge throughout the event. The varied formats provide structured learning while making space for organic collaboration, connection, and insights to arise.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "Mastermind_Eden"}, "recipient": "0x43B0F78dF5Aa2570215D44F1ce821b141C8c00C3"}}