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(Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The Embodied Governance Project is conducting open research towards a suite of collaborative techniques for managing commons infrastructures using embodied collective-sensing methodologies.\n\nCosmo-local communities, comprising technologists and Earth stewards from diverse backgrounds, are experimenting with socio-economic changes that require a body capable and ready to respond to the complexity in which it is immersed.\n\nThe new systems we are building must include beauty, love and emotional depth as inputs, even if they are not quantifiable. Without these, the systems will continue to optimize for profit and growth, as these inputs are more easily measured.\n\nOur hypothesis is that the body - meaning the full individual in relationship to its environment - are the providers and maintainers of a system\u2019s subjective input and the regulators of its health. An opinion or desire becomes more granular as it moves further away from the body, to a word, to a pen, to a keyboard. The body is an under-appreciated sensing device within collective space and as a result our disembodied practices make gray commons stewardship.\n\nLearning from a wealth of experience from the literature, embodied facilitation, systemic constellation work and beyond, we will develop a conceptual framework around physical presence and sensory sensibility that creates emergent properties and realities for decision-making. In our experience, this can connect physical spaces with their online counterparts, enhancing the warmth, meaning, and sense of belonging that come from being an active part of these communities.\n\nThe outcome of this research will be a playbook with practices for meaningful governance, including a suite of workshop tools for use within civic spaces to transform idealism into tangible impact through actionable solutions for local issues.\n\nThe proposed timeline for implementation is approximately 4 months. \n\nPhase 1 - Research Framing Development \nPhase 2 - On-the-ground experimentation during Thailand pop-up villages and Devcon \nPhase 3 - Playbook Write-up ", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Embodied Governance combines empirical and theoretical approaches to democratize access to participatory decision-making, addressing the gaps between web3 solutions and local needs. The playbook is both developing a theory of change and drawing on existing governance literature from diverse perspectives.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The funding will support our research and writing efforts, as well as cover expenses for conducting local workshops in Thailand.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project. ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This is our first round.", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The team are facilitators and researchers each with a decade of experience engaged in collaborative projects revolving around undertaking direct interventions with communities. The advisor is a qualified therapist with 30+ years of experience of training facilitators in embodied approaches.\n\n- *Livia Deschermayer**\n\nLivia is an artist and published social researcher in the field of token engineering with over 6 years of practice in the web3 space on the topics of governance, culture and incentivization. Her contributions include designing social system protocols, stewarding a 2 years long working group on soft governance and culture and leading the Cultural Build initiative at Commons Stack which implemented Elinor Ostrom's principles in the Token Engineering Commons.\n\n- *Charlie Fisher**\n\nCharlie\u2019s role over the past decade has been to build capacities within land-based organizations, primarily around urban affordable housing and mechanisms for holding land in the commons, which is the topic of his PhD. Originally trained as an architect, Charlie writes about, and runs workshops on, group dynamics, decision-making, incorporation approaches, stakeholder mapping, business planning, and visioning. Charlie is currently a Strategic Designer at Dark Matter Labs, focusing on decentralized technology and is in the founding Committee of Oasa, a Swiss token issuer for ecovillages focused on land restoration.", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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