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We explore the possibilities of blockchain technologies through our weekly newsletter, ongoing data driven research, a soon-to-be podcast and plenty collaborations.** \n\n# \ud83e\udd14 Why? \nFrankly, because we are both bored and scared of:\n- The mainstream & polarized crypto narratives. We found ourselves trapped either by the \u2018web3 is gonna save the world\u2019 or \u201cweb3 is nothing but a scam\u201d. \n- The Regen/ReFi spaces have broadened the discourses, but there is so much more to add towards actual social systemic change.\n- The lack of visibility/funding towards the South American wisdom, talent, communities, projects and saz\u00f3n around blockchain technologies.\n- The quantity & quality of Spanish web3 content.\n- The lack of humanities in mainstream crypto narratives.\nBy failing to integrate critical perspectives on web3, specially when thinking and building on the Global South, we risk using all its potential to replicate the same dynamics we so desperately need to change. \n\n# \u2728How do we propose to solve it?\n\nWe aim to create a **knowledge and networking hub for everyone working to improve LATAM, willing to responsibly look at the existential risks and hopes of blockchain technologies in real life \ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffe\u200d\u2764\ufe0f\u200d\ud83d\udc69\ud83c\udffd**\nOur activities include:\n**- Weekly newsletter:** selection of indispensable articles, videos, essays, podcasts, events, etc. - From essentials on Moloch to solarpunk/lunarpunk/eclipsepunk. - From academic articles on Blockchain Imperialism to investigative journalism on Crypto Colonialism. - From indigenous worldviews to postmodern jargon. - From AI arts to silly memes. \n**- Data driven research: quantitative & qualitative investigations to better comprehend the web3 ReFi landscape in LATAM.**\n**- Twitter Spaces (soon to be podcast):** conversations with builders, artists, researchers and contributors of the space.\n**- Collaborations:** Partnerships with several Latin projects for specific initiatives. \n\n# \ud83d\udee0\ufe0fWhat have we done so far?\n**\ud83d\uddde\ufe0fNewsletter**\n- 28 editions published in 2022, plus 10 in 2023 so far.\n- 100+ subscribers, 2.000+ views.\n- No paid subscriptions, no paywalls. Striving for knowledge as public goods!\n- Included the work of Elena Y\u00e1snaya Aguilar, Urb\u00e1nika, Marcus AM, FUTURX, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Liv Boeere, Jordan Hall, Eric Weinstein, and many more!\n- **GOALS**:\n    - Push for consistency: one publication per week, hopefully two.\n    - Establish the newsletter as the go-to for the latest on ReFi / Regen in LATAM.\n\n![fnewsletter](https://naturland.notion.site/image/https%3A%2F%2Fs3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fsecure.notion-static.com%2F35409cb3-55a4-433f-a17f-fc66f9c80907%2FUntitled.png?id=a4a578c9-3656-488d-9a7a-6977b0bf8bb7&table=block&spaceId=32f55085-a500-464b-9c64-fdb15b7f94e5&width=2000&userId=&cache=v2)\n\n**\ud83d\udcc9Research**\n\n- **\u201cWeb3 con Impacto Social en LATAM\u201d, phase 1:**\n    - **Think Impact DAO Media 's ongoing research, but with a latin and critical focus. Done in collaboration with Crypto-Communities.**\n- Mapped ~100 projects in South America, classified them according to the UN\u2019s SDGs, gathered quantitative data, interviewed founders and published the preliminary results through our newsletter.\n- In late 2022, we presented the results at Ekoparty, one of the biggest cybersecurity conferences in LATAM, and in UPFC\u2019s ReFi side event for Labitconf.\n![w3is](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c73806d-15de-4c22-a19c-79d26f17b5c1_1600x1531.png)\n\n- **\u201cWeb3 con Impacto Social en LATAM\u201d, phase 2:**\n    - **Ashoka partnership**: we\u2019ll be working directly with Ashoka\u2019s Latin department.\n    - **GOALS:**\n        - Introduce heavy focus on systemic change.\n        - Refine open source database.\n        - Interview a selection of projects, release them through our soon-to-be podcast.\n        - Publish written/visual/interactive results in mid-late 2023.\n\n![ashoka](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/skBLLHuJKykKt7iAzCYGAFmzuQ04yMc1ITTwwKM9FwmcmABR-6VOUjpT-UWD1iqpOr_HeJt7X-UXotnaDXuUyzkaOt_F6znRlaqCuZk04EzEghfqr05NXvOk29WXxhOokhoiVp5A5hkKD5_zlsUE3iI)\n **\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f Twitter Spaces / Podcast**\n\n- Hosted and participated in several spaces. To mention a few:\n    - 6 educational Twitter Spaces in collaboration with AndinoDAO.\n    - Interview with AtomTM, german electronic musician, in collaboration with FUTURX.\n    - Participated in a panel with Marcus AM, hosted by Maker DAO\u2019s Latin Ambassadors Project.\n- **GOALS**:\n    - Participate in at least 2 Twitter Spaces per month, as guests or hosts.\n    - Start La Dream Machine's podcast!\n        - New format for much more intimate, flexible, in-depth, not twitter-dependent conversations.\n![andinodao](https://naturland.notion.site/image/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstackcdn.com%2Fimage%2Ffetch%2Fw_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep%2Fhttps%253A%252F%252Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%252Fpublic%252Fimages%252Feb117997-062c-43be-87b5-11148c82425b_1080x1080.png?id=f75c883d-ef49-4631-bc95-657ae42fb667&table=block&spaceId=32f55085-a500-464b-9c64-fdb15b7f94e5&width=2000&userId=&cache=v2)\n\n# \ud83c\udfc6Team\n\n**- Claudio Cifuentes Lobo**, journalist and writer, cofounder of La Dream Machine and Impact Academy.  You\u2019ll find him with too many tabs \n\n**- Simon Esp\u00ednola**, economist and social entrepreneur, cofounder of La Dream Machine and CEO of Naturland. You\u2019ll find him dreaming about descentralization and researching natural medicine. \n\n# **FAQ**\n\n **+How are you going to watch the impact of this grant?**\n\n- Through our newsletter (go and subscribe!) and our Twitter profile. We are not yet working with POAPs or active on Lens. Let us know if that would be important for the next round!\n\n**+What are the topics you\u2019ll cover in the newsletter, research, and podcast?**\n\n- We\u2019ll keep highlighting a wide array of philosophies, projects, stories, narratives, etc., that we believe are crucial for a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the ReFi space. Always with a social, latin and critical perspective.\n\n**+What are the goals of La Dream Machine?**\n\nBuild a knowledge and networking hub for people willing to make deep, systemic, regenerative, impact through blockchain technologies, while DREAMING and HAVING FUN.\n\n**+Why that weird name, La Dream Machine?**\n\nGlad you asked! It comes from an light art artifact created in the 60\u2019s, the chilean social uprisings in 2019 and desire\n\nOur grant proposal ends HERE, but if you have more time/curiosity to spare, you\u2019ll now find the full-length story of our weird name.\n\n**\ud83d\udd2e Why that weird name, La Dream Machine?**\n\n***\ud83d\udcad The* Dreamachine**\n\nIn its original form, The Dreamachine was a groundbreaking DIY device capable of inducing visual, hallucinogenic, almost spiritual experiences with no need of drugs. Only light.\n\nInvented in the early 60\u2019s, it's a [stroboscopic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroboscope) flickering [light art](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_art) device that produces [visual](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidetic) stimuli. The process is simple. You stand by the machine with your eyes closed, and let the flickering light trigger alpha waves in your brain, the same brain waves produced during REM sleep. As described by many, you\u2019ll end up having the most astonishing visuals before your eyes - patterns, mandalas, constellations that\u00a0 challenge everything regarded as true.\n\nThe Dreamachine was designed to be the \u2018first artwork to be experienced with your eyes closed\u2019. It was envisioned as a machine to replace the TV in every home in America by William Burroughs and Bryon Gysin, the inventors.\u00a0 Instead of passive consumers of mass-produced media, they proposed, viewers of the Dreamachine would create their own cinematic experiences, thus triggering new imaginaries, aesthetics, worldviews.\n\nSince its unveiling, it has inspired the likes of David Bowie, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Genesis P. Orridge and Phillip K. Dick. From completely different contexts and circumstances, we also draw inspiration from it.\n\n***\ud83d\udea8 Estallido Social***\n\nIt was just after the Chilean social uprisings in 2019 that we learnt about The Dreamachine.\n\nHave you heard of the social uprisings? About the \u201c*estallido social\u201d,* as it was\u00a0 the original spanish? Think of the Arab Spring, but in the longest country of South America\u2026 which happens to be one of the wealthiest countries in the region and*, at the same time,* the most unequal one.\n\nIn a nutshell, it was a series of massive demonstrations, heavy metal riots and state violence as we youngsters had never seen before. It was triggered by a 30 cent subway fare rise, but it was quickly followed by nearly 70 subway stations burnt to the ground, literally millions of citizens manifesting on the streets, the army taking over the cities for the first time since the dictatorship, systematic human rights violations perpetrated by state police (see \u201cOjos Sobre Chile\u201d, by International Amnesty) and in the dissolution of the Constitution instaurated during Augusto Pinochet\u2019s military dictatorship in the 80s.\n\nIt was triggered by a 30 cent fare raise, but symbolically people saw it as the tipping point\n\nof 30 years living under one of the most extreme neoliberal systems in the world. Insufficient pensions, privatized education, health, and water, commercial monopolies, segregation, discrimination, corruption, cronyism, nepotism and centralism were the main themes.\n\nAfter the most intense months, it was natural that we started dreaming, very naively of course, about potential blockchain applications to address what we were witnessing in the streets.\n\n(Please google \u201c*estallido social*\u201d. Definitely worth it. For a rather interesting take, look for \u201catom\u2122 // r3v\u201don Youtube. And for a rather raw one, continue with \u201catom\u2122 // g01p\u201d).\n\n**\ud83d\udd2e *La* Dream Machine**\n\nWe arrived to blockchain technologies through crypto and DeFi, specifically through the alternatives it offers to deal with inflation and remittances in LATAM. But we knew there was much more to them.\n\nSo we asked ourselves - Cryptocurrencies, DeFi, DAOs, NFTs, digital identities, POAPs, ZK proofs, and so on: are they actually a set of tools with which to build **new systems of coordination** we so desperately need?\n\nDecentralization, transparency, trust, regeneration, and the values many claim to be the driving force behind \u201cweb3\u201d: do they actually stand an *in real life* chance?\n\nWhat about the hype, the well documented unethical aspects and its exponential risks? Are blockchain technologies an inclusive tool? Who\u2019s actually benefiting from it?\n\nHow to adapt blockchain technologies to Chile, to Latin American contexts, to the Global South?\n\nHow to integrate technologies like AI?\n\nThat\u2019s how this project was born. We conceived it as a *web3 lab with a latin, social and critical perspective*. Which, in practice, means a **community of enthusiasts, Devs, researchers, academics, humans, friends,** who seek to explore these technologies as **new systems of coordination. Or a research collective focusing on** web3 projects, philosophies, and experiences ****that could impact in **reducing corruption, the public sector inefficiency and empowering local communities** on LATAM, amongst others -\u00a0 while DREAMING and HAVING FUN!\n\nWe named it *La Dream Machine* as a homage and constant reminder of the values we respect the most of the original one: its radical *do-it-yourself* spirit*,* the simple complexity that arises from light and dark, the proposal of representations produced \u201cwithin you\u201d, far from mainstream media, the pursuit of dreams. All done with intellectual honesty, prudence, courage and love. All with a latin, silly twist.", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "Dmlab_"}
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