Zelar City
{"type": "project", "title": "Zelar City", "logoImg": "bafkreidbzpmmvx4ofn5pzn3vjnluyjytifayizjsrzttpz43o4gq66sqh4", "website": "https://zelar-city.super.site/", "bannerImg": "bafybeihrxdb6k2qh4apchavaa5ydpnxjdf4dphd53txcdoxnavtbh2h35y", "createdAt": 1721164563292, "credentials": {}, "description": "# Zelar.City is a 6-week popup village dedicated to bringing together scientists, entrepreneurs, and forward-thinking individuals to co-work, co-live, and innovate toward a world without pain, suffering, and death.\n\n**What** — a 6-week Pop-Up village in Berlin, Germany\n**When** — Saturday, October 5th - Sunday, November 17th\n**Where** — [MOOS.garden](https://www.moos.garden/)\n**Why** — to seed a permanent hub for the Zuzalu community to collaborate in real life towards innovations in health and longevity science.\n**Who** — 120 founders & startup teams, experts, builders, mentors, and leaders.\n\n**Programming:**\n*Week 1:*  Opening ceremony, connection exercises, co-creation workshops\n*Week 2:*  Autonomous Societies and Longevity Innovation\n*Week 3:*  Biohacking and Science\n*Week 4:*  New Mechanisms for Advancing Biotech (DeSci)\n*Week 5:*  Philosophy and Ethical Concerns for Longevity\n*Week 6:*  Vision for the permanent hub & closing\n\n\n**Zelar.City** aims to bring together people passionate about living healthier lives while advancing aging research and interventions, leveraging the power of an aligned community to crowdfund territory and create a new autonomous society.\n\nWe attract great folks by providing a space for biohacking experimentation, connecting with like-minded people, and living a meaningful life while working on extending it indefinitely. \n\nDedicated to longevity breakthroughs and network state innovations, Zelar City offers opportunities for building, learning, networking, mentoring, prototyping, and more. Our goal is to grow the adoption of healthy lifestyle interventions, expand the DeSci community, and support scientists in their quest to solve aging. \n\nThis pop-up city will establish a strategy for long-term co-working and co-living, acting as a seed for a permanent longevity hub in Berlin and future cities.\n\n\n**Team:**\n*Victoria Padure (Forest)* has been in the web3 and longevity space for 3 years; fitness lead at Zuzalu, Vitalia, ZuConnect, and Edge Esmeralda; she’s committed to building a longevity community and bringing awareness to the longevity science field.\n\n*Thorge Lindner* built a Berlin-based community for builders and thinkers. The group house is called Aurea and it brings together more than 50 people monthly for events and hackathons.\n\n*Jacob Lucash* brings years of experience as the coordinator of MOOS.garden, a welcoming space for diverse paths to meet, that supports an innovative, interdisciplinary and interconnected community right in Berlin`s heart. The community house has 20 bedrooms and is ready to host Zelar.City from October to mid-November.\n\n**Traction:**\nOur team members have been running the 2 most relevant community spaces in Berlin, as well as organizing various longevity meet-ups.\nWith the word of mouth so far, the experience & network of the team we are well positioned to make a successful pop-up village.\n\n\n**Roadmap**\n*So far:*\n-  We’ve built a core team.\n-  We've reserved the main venue in Berlin and are exploring options to expand our occupancy area to ensure that residents are within walking distance of the venue.\n-  We’ve started the conversation with leaders and pioneers in the longevity space to join us, while also inviting start-up founders who can bring hands-on experimentation with cutting-edge wellness and longevity interventions.\n-  The word is spreading\n*Next:*\nEarly August: \n- Grow hype by posting on different social media channels about the pop-up city\nMid-August: \n- Payment for the space\n- Get deposits from people who have expressed interest in being part of it.\nSeptember:\n- Form strategic partnerships with leading researchers—many of whom we have established relationships with over the past 3 years — as well as with renowned institutions, such as the Charité R&D department in Berlin.\n- Finalize programming\n\n**Budget**\n$60k venues booking\n$30k food and wellness activities costs (like sauna, cold plunges, fitness activities)\n$10k partnerships with clinics for blood panels and check-ups\n$20k team costs, subsidies\n\n**Impact on the Zuzalu ecosystem**\nWe’re establishing a presence in Berlin by bringing Zuzalu values to the wider community. We’re laying the foundation for a permanent hub where we can live in alignment, enhancing societal prosperity and individual fulfillment.\nWe aim to create a place where everyone can thrive together, united in the mission to solve aging and build a society free from pain, suffering, and death.\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "ZelarCity"}