Governance Innovation Workshops

Context

I joined the collective intelligence research group of Platform Design Toolkit to launch the white paper in Novermber 2020. My research and facilitation focused on the cultural lenses in the organizational design trends. Since then, I have been designing workshops and researching on governance and decisions making process. In July 2020, I delivered a reseach update with a first workshop in collaboration with the Commons Stack – Read more here.
In June 2021, I expanded the previous learnings from the voting space to also investigate the decision space. A further collaboration arised with Token Engineering Commons as they are working on improving the best practices around governance.

Approach

I applied participatory research and structured experimental approach to deliver and co-create with Commons Stack team and the audience who attended to the workshops. I generated feedback loops within the core team of four people to pinpoint the design challenges, focus and agenda in the pre-workshop planning, execution, follow up. I designed short surveys to generate feedback and improve the understanding of the audience’s needs. In June 2021, we delivered a two workshops. See here the YouTube video.

Outcome

As a results of two workshops, research updates and team follow-ups, in June 2021, the need to form a Governance Research came to life. It is a living organism to onboard Governauts – twitter – This means we want to champion and foster the design of fair participatory dynamics to enable a polycentric economy. See here the Gitcoin grant that we launched.