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# Uberhaus 🚫Unmarketing Work Stream: Introducing Jesters

- It's not exactly marketing: both more and less, a different character
- The purpose is not so much *brand identity* so much as to provide a mirror for the DAO-of-DAOs to observe and track it's dynamic character
- This involves **creating cultural feedback mechanisms so we can consider what kinds of content we are putting out into the ecosystem and why**, to conduct our own narrative of how we refer to Uberhaus

#### Uberhaus is a Painting

- *Painting is a mirror and a portal*
- **An opportunity for outsiders to peer into our world and understand what drives us as a community, in order to in-vision themselves in our image**
- We should design for maximum openings, to help the community identify entry points for injecting their own DAO-specific agendas into the Uberhaus converation
- This leads to increased participation and retention
- Allows us to clearly articulate pain points and DAO needs, which will lead to clear tasks for would-be contributors for getting involved
- **A painting is an invitation to imagine**, not a directive
- We offer **a window into the Uberhaus**, a mirror-portal (but none of these are sexy enough to name the project)
- The **mirror** allows us to observe our own progress and clarify our goals. *Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tony Conrad*
- The **portal** allows outsiders to observe us and identify entry points. *Hieronymus Bosch*
- The **window** is an opening/invitation to new forms of interaction, a reciprocal conduit that reflects and incubates. *Dieter Roth, Öyvind Fahlström*
Pistoletto
Conrad
Bosch
Roth
Fahlström
Fahlström

#### Uberhaus is an Architecture

- DAOhaus is the infrastructure and **Uberhaus is the entablature**, the frieze on the building that **gives the building character and presents the mythology of the civilization of builders**
- What does the Uberhaus look like? How does it present itself to the world?
- A postmodern reflective mirror structure that obscure what is inside?
- Hundertwasser-style building, represents the will of the people, brings the inside outside?
- Bauhaus, a structure of pure formal potential, but striving for total objective neutrality? This is where we currently are, but neutrality can be dangerous. DAOhaus is the Bauhaus, but what is Uberhaus?
- What we are reaching for is a constantly evolving set of style that is cool and inviting while also representing the dynamic community as it exists at any given moment. **Uberhaus is Archigram! A city that is design to evolve and define itself.**
- This "marketing" intiative strives to provide the scaffolding and the crane, to allow the contents and inhabitants to flow according to their own will and encourage these changes (not inhibit them through strict definitions)
- Architecture as composable and mutable, modular and dynamic
- The infrastructure is provide by DAOhaus (and maybe the dev component outsourced to RaidGuild), so that the **Uberhaus delegates can focus on the crane operations**
Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles
The Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna, Austria
Bauhaus Campus, Berlin
Archigram: Plug-in City

#### Uberhaus is a Philosophy

- Mirrors evoke the myth of Narcissus, obsession with our own image/form. If we're not careful we will fall in!
- This initiative is driven to understand that the mirror-pool is a reflection, an unreal world. We exist on the shoreline, still perplexed by our own identity. We must not succumb to the deception of our image.
- Another fear is that we become Nietzsche's *Übermensch*, an evolution of humanity with tyrannical powers, the epitome of total agency and unchecked free will
- I humbly propose that we consider a disposition of self-reflection, a composure that allows us to change our own world-view. Donna Haraway challenges us to consider **a shift from the Anthropocene to the Chthulucene,** a perspectives that does not seek to dominate other entities or to be consumed by them, but to appreciate the essential embeddedness of the actors. Let's make kin! A wonderful combination of sci-fi mythology and profound existential need for a dying world, embodying the hope of the Uberhaus project.

Narcissus
Gerhard Richter, Kugel I (Sphere I) 1989
Anish Kapoor,
Mother as a Mountain (Black) 1985
Donna Haraway in the zone

#### Notes for Re-drafting the Proposal 1-12-22:
- Should be separate from the UberPaladins
- A specific project DAO
- Funding stream faucet for oversight
- Open-ended proposal without concrete deliverables:
- It's not a project but it is a **work stream**.
- The proposal should describe what kind of value this funding will provide, but **not in phases** because this implies an end.
- This initiative should be a **continuous self-reflection and sharing** with the community.
- We don't need to tell the delegates what exactly we are going to do, but some overview of how we would go about it.
- The best way is by **doing, rather than talking about it.** Social experiments that shake things up!
- First proposal might ~~have a provisional first raid to focus on one deliverable. Alternatively, we might ask for more than we think we need,~~ provide the topics we think we are going to answer, demonstrate that the money is well spent on the value it generates.
- **Marketing is a poor descriptor.** Plor suggests **Jesters** = we are laughing at the king while presenting the cold hard truth, always with philosophical rigor and levity! This should be fun for everyone involved. This work stream explores the raw reality of the UH identity formation.
- **Defines the relationship between DH + UH**, how DH is not responsive to the delegates, and how this relationship could be generally improved.
- Jesters will **facillitate more knowledge sharing and relationship building**.
- An opportunity to **structure UH meetings** in a way that hasn't happened before.
- **Budget sketch:**
- Provisional runway of 8 weeks
- Enough funds for 5 contributors working 2hrs week @ $75/hr
- $750/week for 8 weeks = $6000
- **Compensation is for:**
- Attending a weekly Jesters meeting
- Attending all the delegate meetings (4 per month)
- Enough funds to be held minion distributed through a superfluid stream to a project DAO
- Contributors would distribute to each other via Coordinape
- Jester: reference to D&D 5e alternate class
- Mockery: not a false face, but really exploring the raw reality