Infinite Projects of/for the Pluriverse

--- ###### tags: `Project Ideas` --- # Infinite Projects of/for the Pluriverse ## Three Initial Infinite Engagements ### Infinite Comics - Begins with a sustained engagement with [Horacio Boriotti](https://www.artstation.com/horacioboriotti) (artist from Gitcoin comics #3 & #4). - Utilizes a standardized knowledge generation workflow: - Weekly syncs with client - Owocki for now, later to expand to the Pluriverse Coalition - Guest participants: Ameen to discuss the Scarlet Monastery - Discuss important topics from their POV - Record & transcribe content, translate into succinct art direction - Hand off to artist ASAP - Sketches (pencils) delivered the following week, added to a backlog for the artist - Pages are inked and colored at the artist's convenience, prioritizing the generation of new sketches - This workflow provides MVP PoC, but later expands to collabs with other artists - A pool of artists are gathered to increase the range of aesthetics styles and allow the pursuit of numerous divergent storylines ### Infinite Zine - Utilizes a standardized knowledge generation workflow that is unique to this project: - Weekly syncs with a pod (MetaCartel), Coalition, or other think-tank group - Meetings are a workshop format: focus on action over conversation = working together synchronously - Each participant is encouraged to "do what they know" and have that session reflect the assembly of participants - Production emphasis is on ecclectic styles, not standard templates - Each meeting produces a page that is dated and ordered chronologically (until a later date when a book is assembled) - This transmedia exercise supplements the theory of the day with a visceral and visual representation - Not an illustration of concepts, but a uniquely visual way of working - Success metric for weekly meetings = creation of a visual language - Success metric for the larger initiative = creation of an ineffable (yet admittedly powerful) affect-oriented knowledge procession that can be intuitively "read" by anyone without needing to be correlated to declarative/deterministic concepts (ie: not infographics, but vibes) - A core team facillitates the workshops - Helps with tools and layout so others can focus on content - Helps remove stress of thinking about the "final product" and stay in the local process - The cast of participants can constantly turn over - Workshops can be thematic, but not necessarily - After initial PoC, we can assemble a team of different designers to pursue divergent aesthetics, concepts, and output forms - Physical: printed books, posters, chain-letters - Digital: digital editions, NFTs, real-time updated archives, website experiments, animations ### Infinite (Academic) Journal - Utilizes a standardized knowledge generation workflow that is unique to this project: - Project leads join the Coalition - Conduct weekly syncs with Pluriverse team - Record, transcribe, and distill conversations into succinct concepts - Hand off concepts to local team: decide format, due date, other practicalities - Pluriverse provides design, ideation, networking, and product release support - Begins as a curated group of contributors to write long-form (ish) critical (non-fiction) text-based works (essays) responding to the creative content of the pluriverse project and its related concepts - After the initial PoC, this might become an ongoing collaborative engagement with various groups in a "pod"-like format: - Funds are raised to create a living wage for contributors and remove economic anxieties - Small curatorial groups are formed with a combo of Pluriverse team and local leads - Allows the convos, ideas, and funds to distribute quickly: emphasis on production, not bureaucracy - Initial institutions to consider: - [LungA School (Iceland)](https://www.lungaschool.is/) - [Autonomous Intercultural Indigenous University (Columbia)](https://medium.com/@traviswyche/deathguild-dialogues-10-77e836bff2bb) - [European Graduate School (Switzerland/Malta)](https://egs.edu/) --- ## Infinite Content Production ### Standardized Workflow - Recurring rituals to generate, gather, and share knowledge across teams - Distillation into clear guideline deliverables: art direction, core concept, etc. - Hand off to core team, empowered with maximum agency and autonomy to decide the direction of the work - Continuous support from the Pluriverse team to ensure alignment with ETH ecosystem values, in the form of lucid critical feedback - Pluriverse + local team collaboration on pushing product to final execution ### Every Movement Generates Micro Content - Pluriverse Mirror (blog) provides regular updates that describe the scope of each project - Pluriverse Twitter is used to point audience towards longer-form content and provoke critical/imaginative thinking-feeling in collectors (muse vibes) - Pluriverse team focused on documenting, archiving, collating, reviewing, and editing of content submitted from local team. Also focuses on editorial review, hype/marketing, and meme-ification of content, lay out in prep for publication, setting up project websites, handling payments, etc.