type:: funding application
tags:: funding
relation:: [Outreach Campaign - zElf - Athsh](Outreach%20Campaign%20-%20zElf%20-%20Athsh.md), [Nordisk Kulturfond](Nordisk%20Kulturfond.md)

# Nordisk Kulturfond - Opstart Global

## Description

### Name
*What do you call your Globus Opstart project?*

- Athsh

### Summary
*Briefly describe what the project is about and what it aims for* - 500 chr
- Athsh is an experimental social media project aimed at generating alternative layers to the social-web between artists and developers of sustainable digital infrastructure.

### Global Vision
*Describe the global perspectives and visions in the project* - 1000 chr

Issues:
- Destabilization of social fabrics over SoMe leading to de-democratization and lack ov civic engagement.
- Value based infrastructures are needed due to climate change
- Value based infrastructures are needed for humanism to be a thing

Method:
- Hyper Art
- A form of intentional gentrification of the value based systems and content produced. Making aesthetics very edgy which causes curiosity, leading to adoption in more mainstream environments.
- Nudging social cultures towards intentional value based cultural and systemic design.

- Aid in the construction of value based infrastructure and systems for communities by providing tools and intentional culture to, in the long run, weave networks and social fabrics with embedded values, and structures reflecting these values.

Content:
- Series of Podcasts with at least 48 interviews over the course of the year.
- SoMe content to distribute the tools and methodologies of collaborative societies and social structures.

Goal of Scaling:
- Creating multiple network and enabling them to build their own intentional distributed digital architectures (DWebs) as based on the social structures and fabrics they themselves inhabit and shape.

### Idea and Theme
*Describe how the project thinks new in terms of idea and theme* - 1000 chr
- This project is working beyond the restrictions of social media and basing its existance on the social bonds, rather than the "follows" or "friends" on the social media walled gardens of the current SoMe landscape.

- This project is extending the fusion between real and virtual into a point of complete inter-meshed manifestation.

- The people who receive it will engage with the fictional in the same way as the physical, thus enabling new paths of beyond what is expected of current structures in what is considered the 'real world'. AR and VR and simply R are fused with the low-tech and slow webs.

### Global network and collaboration
*Describe how the project will establish clear structures and project organizations. Which concrete steps have you already taken?* - 1000 chr

- Made the initial design

### Applicant
*Give a short presentation of yourself and your own role in the project.*

#### Stakeholder
Maries Company

##### Country
Sweden

##### Role in the project

##### Website/relevant materiale online (Links to file sharing platforms are not approved)

#### Stakeholder
Research Institute - [FarmLab](FarmLab.md)

##### Country

##### Role in the project

##### Website/relevant materiale online (Links to file sharing platforms are not approved)

#### Stakeholder
Jacks Company?

##### Country
Germany

##### Role in the project
Digital Ambassador?

##### Website/relevant materiale online (Links to file sharing platforms are not approved)

### Collaboration and partners
*Who are the partners in your project? Why do you wish to collaborate with each other? Give a brief description of the confirmed partners below. You are welcome to provide links to relevant websites (CVs, etc.).*

#### Partner
Aarhus University

#### Country
Denmark

#### Role in the project

#### Website/relevant material online (Links to file sharing platforms are not approved)

#### Confirmed (yes/no)
- [x] Yes
- [ ] No

### What is going to happen in your Globus Opstart project?
*Describe how you are going to work in the project. Where, when and how will the Globus Opstart project be implemented?*

When:
- The project will be iterative in it's design with 1 month cycles, a total of 10 production cycles.
- Each production cycle has the same phases with
- Reflection
- Revision
- Production
- Wrap Up

### When will your project start and end?
*The processing time for Globus Opstart is 20 working days, and the project must not be commenced before you receive a response to your application. You may therefore only select dates that are at least 20 business days after today’s date. Your Globus Opstart project must be completed within one year of the start date.*

**Start Date**
25 Nov

**End Date**
25 Nov

### I will give my full approval for the Nordic Culture Fund to contact me regarding this application and my Globus Opstart project
*As Globus Opstart is part of the development of the Nordic Culture Fund’s global program, we wish that the applicant shares knowledge and learning with the fund. With this, we want to investigate how global collaboration takes place and can be developed between artists and cultural practitioners from the Nordic countries and the rest of the world.*

- [x] Yes
- [ ] No

### Applied amount
50,000.00 DKK

### What are the expenses you wish to cover with the applied Globus Opstart funding?
*The budget must reflect on how the project will collaborate globally. The information must be detailed: If travel activity is involved, for example, state how many people will be travelling, from where and when, and who they are. You can apply for a maximum of DKK 50,000. Fees may comprise 80% (though no more than DKK 30,000) of the project's total expenses.*

- salary for creative work
- Salary for coordination
- Domains and servers
- Potential Distributed Physical Meetups

### Financial plan
*Enter the income you expect to have from the Globus Opstart project. It is possible that Globus Opstart is the only source of funding, but you are also welcome to include other income. The finances of your Globus Opstart project may be greater than the DKK 50,000 you can apply for from the Fund.*

Applied from Globus Opstart (this application):