metadata: {"type": "project", "title": "Zuitzerland", "website": "https://www.zuitzerland.ch", "bannerImg": "bafkreifjdyy3dtsbr3u6jegk6mh5ktrobfayrakmnkrret5ghxgdidpnqy", "createdAt": 1721240581938, "credentials": {}, "description": "# Zuitzerland 2024\n\n## Prototyping a Swiss inspired network society\n\nBecome a pioneer resident, and part of seeding a new long-term network society experiment in the Swiss alps.\n\n![Interlaken Labs](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263189674957082696/image.png?ex=6699548f&is=6698030f&hm=d8578e542a25daacbc3f33998345041317715691be0c9f405eee9a0357bc1576&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1100&height=620)\n\n### Background \n\nAs Balaji and Vitalik have stated in the past, decentralised organisations don\u2019t mean an absence of leaders, but an abundance of them. \n\nOur initial idea with Zuitzerland as outlined in our [February proposal to the Zuzalu community](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=independent-rounds#/round/10/0xf89aad3fad6c3e79ffa3ccc835620fcc7e55f919/0xf89aad3fad6c3e79ffa3ccc835620fcc7e55f919-22), was to organise an event that helped shape and accelerate a different kind of leader, one better prepared to meet the challenges of the next 30-50 years of human society:\n\nInitially we were thinking of this as a small one-off event, to take on Vitalik's challenge, and accelerate d/acc leadership.\n\n**Then in March, pure serendipity struck:** a new permanent partnership emerged with a mission-aligned friend (Next Gen Village): with the vision to transform an existing former futuristic theme park (capacity for 6'000 people) into a village of the future that serves as a living lab where the pioneer citizens can build a prototype of a regenerative future civilization.\n\n### We\u2019re Based in a Futurist Theme Park\n\n-   We\u2019re seeding a permanent network society at Interlaken Labs\u2019 new village location\n\n-   Plans to renovate it into a permanent living lab and village with living pods, regenerative living, a hotel and an airstrip for electric plane / vehicle experiments\n   \n-   Interlaken Labs is set in the middle of the world heritage village Interlaken and amongst views of stunning Swiss alps and lakes, with world-class infrastructure nearby\n    \n-   Our village is just 5 minutes bike ride from the centre of Interlaken, with easy access to the two lakes, restaurants, camping grounds, hotels, hospitals, lakes and amenities\n\n## Key Info\n\nZuitzerland\u2019s mission is to explore and iterate on viable models for d/acc leadership in network states and societies. Our community is cultivating our home, and permanent Zuvillage location, in Switzerland's beautiful Interlaken region.\n\nZuitzerland is the start of an experimental long-term Zuzalu node that has the opportunity to be the first of several permanent nodes and pioneer citizens, forming a living laboratory and experimental village in Interlaken Labs (code name for the planned new village).\n\nLearning from the Swiss model of direct democracy which for centuries has embraced decentralised governance, we\u2019re setting out to provide a pathway to iterating on practical models for fusing techno-optimism and social stability. From Day 1, Zuitzerland aims to trial practical d/acc social systems and models of residence and citizenship, to develop lasting network societies.\n\n![Zuitzerland's concept](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263191889545527388/image.png?ex=6699569f&is=6698051f&hm=e7a6d4e65d0cb4b458cbf7260842a5e498fb257aff38a7bcb4263cb3484258ca&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1100&height=614)\n\nNext Gen Village is building a Living Lab for DAO governance and tokenomics, in a real-world experimental environment, building and simulating a micro-economy. Zuitzerland will become a seed society and node in this micro-economy experiment.\n\n![Building for the long-term](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263194281250783415/image.png?ex=669958d9&is=66980759&hm=a1b2b1468aa51c125baeb0f198876fdbf9682011b14fd4b79b326c08a7c6c991&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1842&height=1078)\n\n2024           Co-design (3-week off-site)                       \n2025           Pop-up village (2-3 month zuzalu style village)   \n2026+         Permanent Zuitzerland node in the NGV living lab village\n  \n## 2024 Plans:\n\n- 3 weeks targeting September kick-off\n- Interlaken, Switzerland\n- 100,000m2 theme park with large conference spaces\n- Minimum 50 full-time residents and co-designers\n- Heavily curated set of pioneer residents come together to discuss, design and co-create Zuitzerland's 2025 event, governance and the long-term community design\n- Accommodation coordinated together, but residents must pay own food and accommodation costs\n\n\n### 2024 Co-design Themes and Paths\n\nGrowing future-oriented leadership, prototyping a swiss-inspired network society.\n\n![2024 Co-design process](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263191814605901834/image.png?ex=6699568d&is=6698050d&hm=807070e956546a2ff1a1bc924990294bf2857703020a1e22d12bffd16284a542&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=2160&height=964)\n\n### 2024 back-up plans / alternative scenarios\n\nWith multiple dependencies to consider, and the late timing of the Q2 round creating a Montenegro-like event in 2024 is very hard, so we\u2019re working to deliver a fun, experimental community event, that unlocks the talents and creativity of our community to create a special space, even if it is not the polished vision we have for Zuzalu inspired events in 2025 and beyond.\n\nWe might bring the community to additional locations in Switzerland, or keep the whole 3 weeks in Interlaken. Details to be finalised together.\n \n### 2025 Plans:\n\n- Given the longer-term partnership we have planned with the Next Gen Village,  at their Interlaken Labs location, we are already drafting plans to host a longer and even more collaborative 2 month event in 2025\n\n- Our 2025 vision includes further collaboration with other Zuzalu nodes and pop-up village organisers as well as heavy involvement of Swiss organisations and cooperatives such as Lugano Plan B, InnHub La Punt, Impact Hub and many many more.\n\n- In 2025, we have the potential to host 400+ residents given size of the location\n\n\n## Existing fundraising\n\n- The value of receiving the Interlaken Labs location at no cost is around EUR 600k for the 3 weeks\n\n- Existing funding ca. 4 ETH from Q1 funding (as ZuLead)\n\n### So much room for activities\n\n-   We\u2019re taking over 100,000m2 of conference / event infrastructure: ready to convert it into a permanent village and living labs experiment in governance, crypto economic models and regenerative living. \n-   There is A LOT of indoors space to camp and create makeshift working and sleeping areas, in a truly experimental and creative format - we can make this our own\n-   From the party pyramid - decked out for discos, to the circular AV room where we can host debates and the smaller event space in the tower, there is so much we can design, build and create here - and some things might be able to be kept permanently for our longer-term Zuitzerland node\n\n## About the Interlaken Labs space\n\n![enter image description here](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263190614640558211/image.png?ex=6699556f&is=669803ef&hm=ebe2932a4628dcad6df2fc40a3e6632fa58cde964bae2fcd144745fd77a8dca3&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1100&height=616)\n\n- Includes a central tower, which has three 300m2 event spaces, an office floor, and canteen area, bathrooms for visitors, and in a circular village surrounding the tower there are multiple large conference halls where contributors can host many interesting unconference experiments\n- Commercial kitchen (for which we can hire caterers to staff and provide meals for residents)\n- Parking for hundreds of vehicles / campervans / trucks / buses and (even) planes\n- There's even an airstrip next door that we can likely use to test electric planes or futuristic vehicles\n-  Depending on funding and community ideas, we are looking at bringing in additional (currently missing) infrastructure for 2024.\n\n## Next Gen Village's Plans \n\n-NGV is taking the next 3-5 years to plan and build a futuristic city and living lab with its pioneer citizens, and community nodes. In the short-term we're working with them on ensuring:\n\n- Sufficient accommodation showers and bathrooms for 100+ people to live for 6+ weeks. In 2024, people will need to stay in local hotels / hostels until this infrastructure is built)\n\n- Turning Interlaken Labs into a special place for our community - it's pretty basic for now as it was built 20-30 years ago and needs renovation \n\n- This room for improvement is also an opportunity to make it our own and design the place our community will reside.\n\n![Interlaken Labs in a few years](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263191322811043980/image.png?ex=66995618&is=66980498&hm=7de24c42e143e17a7820a04b6688c6ca33eef7a9006e338f81ac2e9733ae395f&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1100&height=592)\n\n![Next Gen Village Future](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263193533880205353/image.png?ex=66995827&is=669806a7&hm=587b36fdec7e84780adc371b8886db7de0f5c289b29b34ff90d7c002112796d9&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=1100&height=612)\n\n\n### Core contributors\n\n**Kaia** - Tech @ BIEN, Economist, Community Governance Advocate\n**Alberto** - Tech..Smart contract engineer @ Curve EPFL\n**Una** - Strategy / Curation, PhD researcher @ ETH zurich, R&D @ Casper (L1 protocol), Contributor @DAOSUISSE @DAOVOZ, Zuzalian\n**Isla** - Strategy / Curation\u2026DAO Suisse, Zuzalian, Contributor  @DAO Suisse @Auditless @UniswapFND @FTW DAO @DAOVOZ\n**Yesh** - PM, ALLFED. Zuzalu contributor. x-risk curator at Zuzalu Montenegro\n**Marko H.** Operations. Zuzalan. Ex-academic. Network theory. @FTW DAO\n**Estefania** - Events operations @growwithguava\n**Victoria** - Ops/ Logistics @FTW DAO, Policy and Governance Advocate\n**Abu** - Zuzalu contributor - Planning / Urban Well-being / Living Design\n**Peth.eth** - Metafest creator, DAO OG.\n**Elie** - Meditation teacher, entrepreneur, project management, @OpenInternerSummer, @DAOSuisse\n**Mr.masa** - Zuzalu contributor. Strategy / Curation - CEO of Orbs Labs\n**Charles Blass** @lovevolv - Radical xChange chapter lead. NAO.is\n**Anastasia** - Contributor at Hydra Ventures, Metafest\n**Ralph Horat** - Next Gen Village \n\n### Partners\n\n![Partners](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1008017683654119465/1263189988795879526/image.png?ex=669954da&is=6698035a&hm=91d754b83cba33af51e028827bd7d55ef49791afd6cfa23a343643738ffba947&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=2076&height=1078)\n\n**'Interlaken Labs' and Next Gen Village**  \n- Co-curators and local supporters\n- Hosting us at their location with no rental cost\n- We pay only energy + cleaning costs\n- Offering to provide long-term Zuiterzland location and that we become a permanent node in their experimental village\n\n**Funding The Commons** - Co-curators and organising local collaborative events\n**Radical xChange** - Co-curators, Swiss chapter supporting in organisation\n**WTG Ventures** - Co-curators and local supporters\n**Orb Labs** - Co-curators and local supporters\n**DAO Suisse** - Co-curators and local supporters\n**FTW DAO** - Co-curators and local supporters\n**How2DAO** - Co-curators and supporters\n**Crypto Commons Hub** - Co-curators and supporters", "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "zuitzerland"}
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