Aragon DAO Contributor: Design Researcher Lead

Context

The evolution of organisations contains the – good and bad – faith and opportunity to re-design our work habits and well-being. In my work I have been researching and connecting with communities that apply the technological layers, to experiment new ways to coordinate people and resource allocations for collective impact. My skillset with strategic research, facilitation and workshop design are in synch with Web3. DAOs – Decentralised Autonomous Organisation – have the potential to reframe our relationship between us, work and the environment. My involvement in Aragon DAO begun in June 2021 as an Aragon member of the community trusted and assigned me a task. This was the beginning of my journey and impact with Aragon.

Approach

With a beginner’s mind I spent the first three months interacting with the global community sharing my input and questions about strategic research and organisational design topics. This meant I have been an Ambassador to learn to listen and capture multiple knowledge from community calls. Often a conversation led to create a connection to a common perception about a collective need. By practicing discovery and active listening, I share my decision to create a DAO Academy working group to address education and peer-to-peer learning. The first step was to create the handbook to create accessibility. I shared this direction with Luiz in October and we embraced the entrepreneurial challenge of submitting a proposal.

Outcome

The proposal was accepted by the Executive Sub DAO on 1st of January 2022. We kickstarted with a research plan for the next four months with an action research approach. We designed and delivered two feedback loops, testing and evaluating the final handbook. We conducted 12 interviews in total, we clustered and made sense of the insights. We curated the UX steps of the documentation as well as we raised the strategic awareness of the ongoing and maintenance with two community presentation. The handbook is the developing legacy of the Aragon Community and it is live since April 2022 to everybody. My role was to lead the team in the research strategies, to create a culture of collaborative leadership, to inspire and supporting each other. One concrete example was a team effort that I suggested with a self-reflection article to co-write about our experience at Aragon. The article has been published on the official Aragon website, here.