Updated on February 9, 2024
Ecosystem Innovation Design Sprint
Context
During the Climatebase fellowship – a 12 weeks program – I designed and proposed an ecosystem innovation sprint methodologies to embed climate solutions for systemic impact. The problem I want to tackle is how communities, teams struggle to organise themselves, with a lack of coordination on collaborative engagement and streamlined participation. Climate decisions that counts needs teams’ alignment, a culture of adaptation with sustainable business goals. They need facilitation to clarify, tasks, workflow and iterative approach for climate solutions.
Approach
I led the online ecosystem innovation design sprint with 5 steps – every workshop will last 2 hours using Miro boards – spread over six weeks. With Kinray Hub: Indigenous-led Klimate Research & Resilient Development , we worked on the challenge to figure how to build and activate a knowledge bridge between Indigenous knowledge and Western knowledge. This implied to ideate and discover potential business practices to regenerate alliances to co-refine climate technology solutions, food systems, and co-evolve carbon resilience benchmarks. A team of five people engaged in the collaborative journey to innovate through the following design sprint framework and tools:
1 – Understand; tools: Ecosystem mapping, stakeholders matrix.
Actionable Input: to understand and visualise an ecosystem. It aims to help you map the actors, infrastructure and value exchange across an ecosystem, so it can be communicated and improved.
2 – Define; tools: Business impact model and user journey.
Actionable Input: helps to understand what’s the problem you are solving, integrate sustainable and social strategies into the business model. Suitable for redesigning existing companies and initiating new ones, with a focus on people and the planet. It encourages new perspectives and serves as a roadmap towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.
3 – Ideate; tools: Project scoping & test card.
Actionable Input: Ideation requires alignment on roles and take ownership of the required tasks. Project scoping helps to get unstuck and excited about a collaborative ideation. Test card will guide the team with what, where and who to experiment. The intention is to run those experiments for 1/ 3 weeks and create accountability and tangible discovery activities to validate assumptions.
4 – Prototyping & Test; tools: Planning prototyping and learning card.
Actionable Input: highlights important questions, support a team to organise to answer them through prototyping and building knowledge relating to a new service ecosystems and help to articulate which hypotheses you went out to test, What you observed, discovered, or learned in the field, what you deduct from from those observations (i.e. the insights you gained from the experiment) and how you’ll act upon this learning (e.g. to improve your business model and value proposition ideas).
5 – Implement; tool: Service Blueprint.
Actionable Input: Displays the entire process of service delivery, by listing all the activities that happen at each stage, performed by the different roles involved. The resulting matrix allows to represent the flow of actions that each role needs to perform along the process, highlighting the actions that the user can see and the ones that happen in the back-office.
Outcome
Successfully, the ecosystem innovation sprint brought value clarifying three main actionable areas:
1 – Enabled the team to pinpoint, in the given ecosystem, opportunities along with stakeholders prioritization with a roadmap.
2 – We designed qualitative research to speak to the actors of the platform, detected in the ecosystem mapping: farmers and scientists.
3 – We clustered the next imminent design challenges for Kinray hub to thrive as ecosystem orchestrator: design onboarding processes for scientists,address and consider governance frames (how to decide and what to decide for example about scientist proposals).
It was exciting to apply ecosystem thinking to focus on specific problems in the relevant communities that might create regenerative values through knowledge sharing.
Kinray Hub will keep working on its vision embracing the above areas and potentially expand this collaboration with the sprint.
Updated on November 22, 2023
Strategy Manager at OpenQ
Context
OpenQ is a Github-integrated, crypto-native and all-around-automated marketplace for software engineers. I worked one year with this start up in the early stage, with a small team, where I could dive into the impact and realm of Open Source community.
Approach
My strategic impact helped to execute the product discovery, and developed innovative processes to bring the products from 0 to 1. I facilitated strategic team exercises to understand and define the main target with a “community interaction canvas”. I endorsed the team journey for more transparency in the open source community and fostered a culture of inclusivity, collaboration and care in all project phases. I supported the first product to launch by engaging the team with the “assumptions mapping exercise” and “test cards” to validate decisions. My actions also focused on team-building, for example organising fire side chat on Discord, launching a book club monthly activity within the team. UX feedback loops were part of my weekly engagement.
Outcome
The strategic research led to focus and solve to a specific problem in the hackathons industry. I delivered a knowledge sharing space where I curated and set up strategic content, managed the settings and maintenance of Notion documentation – see below. I published an article to share the journey and lessons learnt. The team workshops – which I delivered: roadmap, mission, test cards, ecosystem and platform design – strengthen collaboration with product management to implement the product life cycle through constructive feedback. Finally, a defined set of hypotheses supported business opportunities which resulted with the product launch at ETH Denver 2023.
Updated on September 21, 2023
The Embodiment of Ecosystem Governance
Context
Over the last five years, by working with entrepreneurs, start-ups founders and team, creating the conditions for a better coordination of high quality decisions has became my focus. Decisions are crucially linked to solve problems. Understand them relies on our ability to decide. The latter has also a systemic impact which requires an awareness of our connectedness with others beings, the contexts, the environment and the value we exchange. At the 2023 Regens Unite Berlin gathering, I delivered a workshop about the embodiment of the decision making process and interdependence awareness.
Approach
The two hours workshop was a safe container for 12 participants. I designed a journey to stimulate and alternate analytical and emotional engagement to embody the understanding and challenges of deciding for a collective benefit. With a group movement exercise, I fostered collaborative energy, empathy, listening and adaptation. A conceptual intro about ecosystem governance set the tone to dive into power dynamic exercise. The teams engaged with a data ecosystem mapping canvas and a decision making storyboard. Each group presented and shared feedback to each other.
Outcomes
The main validation was how the teams learnt the emotional condition to go through the governance process. As decisions are intangible topic, the teams turned what and how to decide into a storyboard to visualise a potential actionable plan. Along with the ecosystem mapping and governance action, teams could explore human potential and unleash better coordination. Also, the team shared how the workshop increased the comfort with ambiguity and uncertainty. The workshop is part of the roadmap I am iterating to provide a better coordination of decisions and collective agency as well as to practice ecosystem thinking to problem finding and solutions.
Updated on January 17, 2023
2022: Space of Identities & Perspectives
This active reflection spins over the evolution of my last year of perspectives in work, the flux and flaws of my ongoing personal development and: my experiments in collective scenes and individual valleys. Everything that I’ve been working on in 2022 – with myself, family, friends, community and passengers – is rooted in the intention to know myself a bit better. And these are the stories where I let my identities regenerate themselves and expand.
Steps & beliefs in webs of realities
The web3 innovative ecosystem is the place where I have started my year and where 2022 has ended. My role and contribution in Aragon DAO community as Design Research Lead marked my first steps of the year as they extended from summer 2021. The Web3 adoption challenge, despite the skepticism and the need of adjustments, is a magnet to my skillset and set of values. Over the last 5 years, by holding space in digital communities, I keep learning deeper about the lights and shadows of remote contributions, about the opportunities to support the shift towards ‘community-owned-networks’ and the need of governance capabilities.
In summer 2022, with the DeepWork collective, I facilitated and designed workshops for a DAO Incubator project. We supported the team innovation processes and the impact of three DAOs in Celo ecosystem. The call of organisational design is becoming increasingly relevant in the web3 space.
But this year for me, the closest step to turn my belief and years in web3 into a tangible context, has been the educational web3 project for a community of students in a school of my hometown, Lecce. The same one where I was student 25 years ago.
The focus of my intention will be on supporting strategic research for governance and web3, ecosystem strategy and team innovation processes.
Mantras from Portugal solo experience
In May, I have travelled by myself – it was a self-coaching experience. Every day, with the number of micro decisions to take and the flow of emotions that come from random encounters, events are hints to an ongoing personal development.
Portugal, with the two weeks between Lisboa and Oporto, gave me landscapes to experiment work remotely and refresh my energy through serendipity. The personal exploration was to experiment, partially, my life in Berlin in… Lisboa and Oporto. I worked remotely, during the day time and then, open the floor for exploration and connection with the surroundings, learning my emotions and body. The opportunity to know more about Fernando Pessoa was telling.
I kept with me a small journal where I wrote every day, at times, twice or three times to document everything. I wanted to know more about myself alone. Three mantras came out of the journalling experience:
1 – Follow. Do not chase.
2 – Faith in your self, soul. Keep the shadows, ditch the ghosts.
3 – Honour the good times as much as the bad times they come from the same roots.
The importance of community experience
In Berlin, the practice of sharing time and effort differently, continues with the presence and observations in communities. At SuperCoop again, the full year of 2022, one Thursday per month for three hours was the rhythm with the exchange, of time and active presence, to support the movement evolving.
A new space. A meaningful space to focus and work has become part of my Berlin puzzle. At CoopSpace I joined a community where the atmosphere is cozy, people are inspirational and open to listen, experiment. There is a governance circle based approach, where initiatives come from the bottom. I shared knowledge about DAO thanks to a simple brainstorm format.
In the summer, I have joined multiple festivals of music and culture, few of them self-organised like Kiezburn. This has inspired to reflect on the impact of festival subcultures on community and city life.
The creative space to nurture and share new perspectives about myself
The integration of music episodes is part of my flow. Every season, I create a mixtape based on a concept and perception inside me and around me. This is how Vagabond on soundcloud speaks about my authenticity of ideas selecting songs, free from any preconceived guidelines. The creative spin involves my body too. I have started in November to learn headstand and to consolidate and thinking of walking headstand. The space for creativity is a dynamic personal work to be true to myself and to others. One way to look forward is painting a canvas every year.
This year I wanted to connect my passion for writing, my exploration of identities, from Pessoa to a mask of V for Vendetta and the other way around. So I did it, my canvas is in my room. But I have a final message and learning: be mindful how to take ownership and responsibilities of identities and perspectives, how to apply them for a collective impact in society. This is an extended invite to everybody to interpret your own canvas of life, to remind ourselves to practice how to look forward with a cascade of peace and positive energy for the next seasons.
Updated on January 9, 2023
Web3 Educational Project in Italy
Context
The vision for a resilient digital ecosystem in our society needs continuous training and experimentation. Education in schools is the backbone where that vision needs to thrive. In a High-School in Lecce, Italy, there is a community of students called, Banzhack, with a bottom-up governance model . They are a movement for innovation, coordinators facilitate and listen to the evolution and needs of the community. One of their current stream is about ‘New economy’. In this exciting and impactful project, I was hired to design and deliver sessions about blockchain and web3 for their community of students. This activity is also supported by the EU 2030 Digital Compass strategy.
Approach
The five session on-line, on a weekly basis three hours long, took place between November and December 2022 with the title: ‘ New pathways with blockchain and web3’. 25 High-school students embraced a learning journey that I designed to raise their awareness, to inspire their entrepreneurial attitude and direction and fully participate as creators and critical thinkers in Web3. This is the breakdown of the five sessions:
1 – Web3: what’s it, impact e relationship with Blockchain
2 – Decentralization in work, money and personal data
3 – Networks & communities’: logic and implications
4 – Tokens & DAOs: case studies and group discussions
5 – Team presentations, p2p feedback & stewardship
With dynamic conversation and rituals in each session, examples such as Metamask, Brave, and questions for reflection, I used slido to visualise and trigger critical thinking. The intention was to enact their ability to participate in Web3 practicing of global competencies such as collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and positive attitude, character competencies such as empathy and integrity, honesty.
Also, they had opportunity to understand the power and collective responsibility of the current shift in our society and economy with a progressive decentralization. I creared survey before and after the session to make informed design decision and report finding.
Outcome
Students embraced a journey, to design with awareness, how to shape and share their own entrepreneurial attitude and direction, to fully participate as creators and critical thinkers in Web3. In the last session, four teams of six students each, presented their knowledge and shared their own report on their website.
After the sessions, with the Banzhack community and the coordination team, we had a debrief with an exciting horizon. We are designing a pilot project with two schools from two regions, Puglia and Toscana, to experiment mechanisms of incentives and consensus to understand further the students needs and impact.
Read here the local press release in Italian.
Updated on December 27, 2022
DAO Incubator designer and facilitator
Context
The DeepWork design studio is a collective that operates in departments, it promotes innovative organisational design through ownership of the design process. I joined the studio two years ago and since then, my role as facilitator and researcher has performed in different project. My latest engagement is the DAO Consultancy department. As the DAOs ecosystem keeps growing, the future of work and the culture of a new ways of organising teams require structured experimentation. It is pivotal to embrace internal focus and alignment to enable better work and life conditions, facing global challenges. In the department team, after an internal experimentation and ideation phase to deliver a DAO service, in October 2022 we launched and completed the first DAO Incubator with three DAOS team from the Celo Ecosystem: ImpactMarket DAO, Africa DAO, CalPoly.
Approach
As part of a collective effort, in a team of 6 facilitator, we delivered five sessions – Branding, Mission and Vision in 2 session, Value Proposition, Project Scoping and Retrospective – with each of the three teams. My focus with the Lead Facilitator was on ImpactMarket DAO.
The customised workshops helped to embrace shape your impact to advice their products and services by signalling opportunities, where support might be needed; outlining solutions, where we propose an approach to turn weakness into a positive evolution; suggesting exercises, in which we highlight which exercises were the most impactful during the sessions; and feedback, to suggest an intention for your team how to move forward. We addressed the three teams scenarios in one document as we also believe and support learning exchange between teams.
Outcome
In the three teams scenarios, in three weeks of work in October 2022, we validated how DAOs face problems such as, moving forward slowly due lack of organisational flow and internal coordination. Another clear challenge and opportunity to develop is the scalability. As an internal team result, the DAO Incubator pilot workshop and project can address the next DAO ecosystem. We are developing and evolving the structure to improve our own direction and impact in other ecosystem. The next DAO Incubator is under progress.
Posted on June 23, 2022
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.
Updated on February 1, 2022
User research for Decentralized Governance
Context
In June 2021, I joined a diverse group of innovators and researcher with a focus on decentralized governance. The Governauts research group came to life and we created a Telegram group. A community with growing number of users gathered to learn about the relevance of the topic and absorb knowledge that could help to inspire their actions. More importantly, we want to offer a collaborative landscape to exchange questions and open positive input to facilitate the impact of decentralized governance, from multiple angles. On a weekly basis, in the core team, we invested time and effort to provide exciting content to the community so they can learn and interact about decentralized governance. Based on the team cross-pollination activity, the Telegram group conversations and my own experience, I wanted to focus pulling together the community needs, the learning activities and the adoption challenges.
Approach
In this context, a generative methodology helped me to design and launch a qualitatative survey to listen and understand the Governauts community on the Telegram group. In Novermber 2021, the survey with six questions guided the community to express their input in three weeks window. The goals were to identify the Governauts archetype, uncover learning opportunities and listen to what the problems are to facilitate adoption in decentralized governance. Out of 180 people on the Telegram channel, 26 members completed it (14%).
Outcome
At the DAO Reward System Assemblage, I presented the qualitative survey results from the Governauts community. You can watch the presentation here or the full event here. In a nutshell, the research detected three main ongoing needs:
Social: cultural building, values alignment Coordination: work streams vs resources allocation UX: simplicity of front-end — ease of use
Another relevant area of the research is about the main problems towards adoption. Below I share a slide with the archetypes that frame the DAO leader as well as contributors’ perspectives:
This research triggered further steps to investigate work streams and skills needed to facilitate the onboarding process in decentralized communities.
Posted on January 9, 2022
Completing and opening new routes in 2022
The 2022 boat is already, silently, sailing off and I look back to my routes in 2021.
Using my voice with Indian Mantras
In Summer 2021, I have joined on Sundays the outdoor ritual that takes place in Berlin, in Volkspark. The circle of people meets up to sing Indian mantras. A welcoming space to revamp your soul from emotional rubbish, frustration and tensions, it wakes up the child in you who has unconditional love for life. It purify your state of feeling.
Sri leads, with his experience, playfulness and kindness, and opens up a world where your voice is actually a medium to awake your own awareness. Sri explains Indian mantras to let the circle familiarise with what chakras are. He shares wisdom from practical experience and Indian roots. Chakras are in our internal beliefs and must be awaken through mantras. A practice to wake up what you have silenced multiple times unconsciously: your way to purely express your self, your true identity with acceptance and exploration. Repeating the words by focusing on pronouncing each letter properly, it is just the beginning of enjoying this experience.
Using my voice, I have learnt more about my sense of resilience and belonging to my journey.
Running to practice the relationship with fatigue and pain.
The relationship with my body is a never ending school. The body, often, confesses the best secrets under constraints. I embrace running to enjoy myself and listen how I learn to deal with limits through relationship to fatigue.
In 2021 I run, almost every week, on Tuesdays. Rain or snows does not matter. In late January, I started with 8 km per week. On average, every month I have increased the distance of 1 km. This is not about iron man mission, but rather it gives a practice of dealing with reactions and over reactions facing the reality of struggles. During the run, I stand close to my breathing, making sure is regular, as I begin to get tired I focus more on how to land on my feet. Also, the monkey in my minds starts jumping more often as the tiredness rumps up and pain knocks the door.
After the 2018 Berlin marathon, running will be with me for a little while again. Perhaps for another marathon.
My first music episode
Besides playing bass guitar, I listen to Music constantly and I notice that my relationship with listening to music, it is also changing. If possible, I support artists and the music industry. Bandcamp and NTS radio are the place where I practice my values. On the first platform I buy tracks and on the second, I pay a monthly donation of € 3, 50 to listen music episodes that bring me back to my attraction of creating playlists.
I used to do it with music cassettes, then mp3 and in 2021, I have been taking notes of my own episodes to create and share it. Putting together tracks around a concept, it is another way to unlock and communicate freely my signals to the world and my growth towards my authenticity.
Finally, in December 2021, I launched my first mixtape, here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/renzo-dandrea/timelessislandsvagabond
Basketball Coaching to nudge my self-actualization
The competition from my basketball career has turned into sharing everything that I learnt in 15 years of professional basketball career in Italy. I was offered to fill the gap as coach in the team I was playing in Berlin in 2020. I gave it a go and I will complete almost two seasons of coaching a team of senior amateur basketball team in Berlin.
This experience has been and is powerful because the discipline, leadership and values I had absorbed as player are a self-engine. From the eleven coaches I have had in my career, I could blend different tools. In terms of leadership, I try to give a clear indication of principles in team culture with clear approaches to play with spacing, timing and collaboration. The response has been beautifully positive. The transformation is happening and it brings more clarity in the rest of my life to express my talent fully. I feel lucky to experience this to know myself a bit better.
Moving on and be where there is life
This writing marks the shift between my break back home in Lecce, south of Italy, and my return to Berlin, where I am as I am writing.
I am approaching my fifth year of experiences in Berlin, the choice of physical places is becoming more personal while digital ones are offering the potential to steer our life decisions as we wish.
The above routes in 2021 are good indications of my compass in my professional identity, for example: my creativity happens when I bring a mindset from one discipline and domain to another one to solve a problem.
And in my next moves on this planet to learn from nature, for example, it is important to feel the awareness of opportunities to grow my true identity.
One last gem, Lorenzo, my nephew and little buddha. He came to life in October 2021, my brother’s son on this planet, in my family. He brings new energy and inspiration, his presence will reframe connections to see what is necessary to change, accept and let it be. And…Everything is connected.
Posted on July 14, 2021
How my use of design tools reflects my ongoing personal growth
This article is a self-reflection of how I have been deploying and learning different design research tools, in different contexts, to address the problem space in my career from 2015 until now. The underlying journey includes a succession of hiccups, struggles and stops to reframe where my values and behaviours are to deliver a positive evolution for individuals, teams and organisations.
What is the problem?
The design thinking mindset has been the kick off to propel my creative confidence facing the ambiguity, uncertainty and complexities of designing products and services.
In 2015 during the business design experience at Kingston University, I embraced design research to investigate cultural change in a public organisation in London. The design research paved the way for my empathy skills to distill human needs through observation, listening and questions. As a result of the gathered hybrid data, I delivered recommendations and findings through a workshop. In the same year, we set up a start up to tackle the learning disabilities for children. I was taking responsibility for field studies. In the schools, we were testing, listening and learning the unexpected. The final output was a digital prototype – Once Upon a Wheel – a disc for social stories. By engaging the children in learning, also, it enhanced the understanding of circular stories, provided therapists, nursery teachers, and other professionals with a tool that teaches children what things belong to the same category or how to react when they face a new situation.
Low Fidelity Prototype case with social stories discs ready to be shipped to schools
User Research has become my direction meanwhile, in 2017, I was diving into Service Design as the next expansion to generate service innovation. During consultancy projects, I was injecting service design tools and concepts as alignment with a transition in our economy, from products to services. For example, in 2016 I delivered a business design creative research report where I proposed ‘Blue Ocean strategies’ to scan and integrate organisational management models.
Blue Ocean Strategies Interpretation – 2016
By refining tools and approaches in user experience (UX) research, I have been able to assess and improve the selection of methods to frame realistic contexts and insights to design processes. However, I have begun to face the limits of some tools towards systemic challenges, for example, designing a platform.
In this regard, my practical experience happened in two contexts, both in the early stage of two startups when I moved to Berlin from London. In 2018 with STOKR , a fintech startup that enables a digital marketplace for founders and investors, as contractor, I carried out action research in the pre-launch phase. I identified challenges, goals and context in ventures and investors. These soft-data were to unlock the understanding of the market landscape and enable strategic network partnerships. The field research activity, alternating action and critical thinking, helped to refine data and interpretation about how to onboard business leads connected with the evolution of the business model.
Similarly, with Cobiom – Hyperlink – in 2019, I supported the launch and the design of the platform from its conception. The secondary and primary research unveiled the complexities of the B2B marketplace in sustainability transformation. The challenge was to understand what and who to engage first – the sustainability experts or the companies – to address the problem space. The customer journey mapping was the output of the research activities that unveil the importance of platform strategies. As often I apply my writing skills to document my work and self-reflection, you can read more here. The outcome was that Cobiom might mutate into a market network with multiple layers of services.
Customer Journey Mapping – Cobiom Platofrm Iterations 2019
Adding Ecosystem Platform thinking to the UX toolkit
In 2020 as the pandemic broke out, I continued with a series of virtual gigs applying service design innovation tools. Most importantly, 2020 made my personal learning journey busier than ever. I learnt the impact of platform economy and strategy thanks to a powerful community of innovators at platform design toolkit. A platform design sprint and the bootcamp equipped me with the necessary strategic awareness to embrace my facilitation skills coupled with the canvases.
As part of the community research experiment with Platform Design Toolkit, we contributed to the new white paper In the research compass – which visualized the evolutionary contexts linked with organisational design trends – I decided to focus on noonsphere, the cultural lense. The output was to investigate further governance innovation tools and decentralized decision making process. Because of the community experience, my mindset augmented the vision of how to explore and investigate a collective need, a systemic change before a specific user problem.
The PDT bootcamp crew 2020
In my quest through the cultural lense, I researched and analysed an organisation that enables governance innovation. An ongoing collaboration with Commons Stack, It offered a territory to further connect my work with Distributed Ledgers Technologies by learning and experimenting governance innovation tools. My work focused on gathering, simplifying and disseminating recommendations to create access to this field. Ecosystem mapping was important to figure out what entity could trigger governance innovation. I interviewed Jeff Emmett from Commons Stack and engaged him in a co-creation process to deliver the workshop, in July 2020, about a decentralized decision making process.
In this cascade of learning-by-doing-activities, between 2020 and early 2021, I joined a digital bootcamp organised by the Future Food Institute. Also, I run my own UX Design project to practice again and learn design tools such as Figma. I designed a prototype for the flight booking process. Here is my ux design portfolio.
Participatory research applied to decentralized governance
In April 2021, at Berchain Token System series, I delivered a talk to investigate governance innovation by combining the token design systemic impact with the potential evolution of platform strategies. With a sense-making approach, I augmented the previous actions with Commons Stack. I interacted with other experts to streamline understanding and facilitate a potential alignment to change governance for the better. The need is clear as much as a demanding journey is required to design tools to facilitate governance innovation. – Read my latest article here.
Organically, my professional serendipity with Commons Stack has evolved with the Token Engineering Commons to investigate governance further. See more here on my youtube channel.
The very latest example of my engagement with communities is happening with SuperCoop in Berlin since May 2021. As an active member, I am supporting the research group by designing surveys to engage, understand and create awareness in the community of 500 members about product sourcing.
Participatory research loops
A spiritual innovation reflection
As my learning curve carries on, it increasingly embeds humans’ needs, at individual and at collective level. My creative engagement is constantly to facilitate how we interpret this complexity along with the environmental impact we experience. Services and products are the projections of those interpretations. We need rivers of sense-making activities. UX Research, Service Design, Platform Strategies must be the orienteering tools to walk into a systemic view while we show each other respect and empathy as guests in the natural world.
Reflecting on the historical impact of the pandemic, I believe that UX, Service Design, Platform strategies, Distributed Ledgers Technologies are tools where our enlightenment needs to come through with awareness of human needs first and foremost. Practicing awareness is to connect our spiritual power with innovation rather than political power, with coercion and exploitative approach.This will change the matrix of competition to cooperation with a structured experimentation along with a never ending learning curve.
I share my work by writing on Medium. On my YouTube Channel I share relevant workshop design and facilitation work. More views on Twitter. My website is: www.changetheriver.org
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