Funding Proposal: Inverted City

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Crossing territories, resisting definition, the Inverted City rolls along with death defying indeterminacy, a wave function of too-many possibilities, a thousand and one stories seeking to locate the one adequate to the renaissance of experimentalism and revisioning of value that we have ahead of us. - Inverted City Introduction

Description

After A General Forum on Ethereum Localism in Portland last fall, discussions continued among participants, including friends from ETHPDX, MetaCartel, Blockscience, LexBlock, Open Civics, Codex and more. These conversations evolved into writings, collected into a journal, titled Inverted City.

The first publication of Inverted City includes 10 entries, by 7 authors, including christypdx, Exeunt, Ven Gist, BorrowLucid, Macks Wolford, Kyle Smith and Payton Rose. It’s a physical publication, distributed without cost to readers.

The global - local feedback loop is an area of research and design, it turns out, that spans legal theory, mycelial ecologies, biomimetics, placemaking strategies, organization theory, Slovenian economics, quadratic functions, all elements of a postcapitalist horizon that seems at the same time far away and right here. - Inverted City Introduction

Deliverables

  • 53 page journal (paper and ink)
  • 10 journal entries
  • 7 authors

and math art!

Progress

  • 100 journals printed
  • 90 journals distributed February 29 - March 5, 2024
    • Gitcoin Church during EthDenver 2024
    • LexDAO Library during EthDenver 2024
    • Metagov Brunch during EthDenver 2024
    • Regen event during EthDenver 2024
    • Yeeter Happy Hour during EthDenver 2024
    • EthDenver Main event and parties
    • ETHPDX in person gathering in Portland

Looking ahead

This first publication of Inverted City included entries from 7 authors. Twice as many authors are interested in contributing to the next publication.

Differentiation

Inverted City is focused on Ethereum Localism. It’s not a solar punk publication, nor solely crypto education.

Amount Requested

1 WETH
to theopenmachine.eth

Validation

Previous Publications:

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In response to a request to add context on why Inverted City, please see an excerpt from the introduction, quoted here.

We initiated this publication series partially as an extension of last year’s General Forum on Ethereum Localism. That conference involved members of the web3 ecosystem from three continents coming together to discuss bioregionalism, strategies of monetary localism like mutual credit and credit clearing, impact funding, the cosmolocal thesis and the particular beast of pluralistic social production that is the city. The global - local feedback loop is an area of research and design, it turns out, that spans legal theory, mycelial ecologies, biomimetics, placemak- ing strategies, organization theory, Slovenian economics, quadratic functions, all elements of a postcapitalist horizon that seems at the same time far away and right here.
In light of that abundance - that re ected, after all, the abundance of characters and conceptual paradigms brought to bear in the work of the open web and the promise of the distributed ledger - we decided to pose this question of the inverted city. The premise could mean many things - the city understood cybernetically as entangled systems rather than structures and properties, as a place for encounter and connection with the earth rather than alienation from it, as a battleground for capture and light, as a zone potent with world-upending experiments - but most of all for this ongoing publication it means the city as a haven of open endedness.

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In response to inquiry about a digital version, please see
https://v2.akord.com/public/vaults/active/7Bqji4Mz0QBoAm1bRtoCxcVdVPp0xrZ0yW7yWfccnuM/gallery#1a6444ce-d8ed-4382-bd5d-d3d2cad1913a