The Extitute
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Topic
The Extitute
Description
- In this discussion, we will explore the idea of setting up the Extitute of Research, a Web3-enabled university leveraging applied experience and skills. The Exitute is a research “institute” building on the Web3 ethos—we build on-ramps into research for hackers and builders of all stripes (or other patterns!). We do this by inhabiting and overlaying onto in-person experiences and extant institutions around the world (from hackathons to universities to world heritage sites) in order to create and/or identify immersive, context-specific learning experiences.
- In these transformed spaces and institutions, we experiment with new methodologies of knowledge production through mutual learning and cooperation. We favor cross-pollination and bottom-up, collective learning over traditional top-down and one-directional teaching.
- The envisioned culmination of these experiences is a degree native to the web3 ethos of peer-based, open collaboration. At the end of the program, participants who can demonstrate necessary knowledge and insight will be provided with institutional recognition and accreditation: a traditional accredited diploma and an NFT-based diploma ("DAOploma")
Hopes & dreams
- An on-ramp to research for hackers, builders, and entrepreneurs. We activate hackers, builders, and entrepreneurs in Web3 who do not fit into the parameters (or career track) of a traditional university or research appointment by leveraging their existing career paths within Web3.
- Sustain involvement by matchmaking between builders and research institutions. We connect participants to projects like DAOstar, the NFT Task Force, the Legitimacy Seminar, and other ongoing research projects that we curate or with whom we partner.
- An alternative, peer-based curriculum. We gather and educate participants with immersive two-week deep dives, workshops, conferences, and hackathons that emphasize peer learning, cross-pollination, and practical knowledge.
- Co-opt and coordinate existing institutions. We bring in existing Web3 researchers and research programs into these curated residencies and deep dives.
Core facilitators
Primavera de Filippi Joshua Tan Jessy Kate Schingler
Main contact (email)
Space Requirements
- [] Electricity
- [] Monitor
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Whiteboard or pad - [] Table and chairs
- [] Seating in circle
- [] Open space outdoors
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Either indoors or outdoors is fine - [] Other (Specify)
Time Requirements
- [] 1 hour
- [] 2 hours
- [] Multiple sessions across 1 day
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Multiple sessions across 2 days - [] Multiple sessions across 3 days
- [] Pre breakfast session
- [] Evening session
- [] Other (Specify)
Who should participate
- [] Coders
- [] Creatives
- [] Policymakers
- [] Children under 12
- [] Teens 12 - 18
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Anyone and everyone - [] Other (Specify)
What will participants take away?
Ideas for how to disrupt universities and innovate around education and research
Keywords
university, web3, extitution, institution, education, research, science, DeSci
Session rundown (tell us a rough outline of your plan)
This is an open discussion; we’ll be whiteboarding and brainstorming.
Relevant links
No links, but here are a list of related organizations that inspired us and might conspire with us: Metagov Fey Extitute Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School The McCourt Institute (Sciences Po, Georgetown, etc.) Foresight Institute Web3 bootcamps such as RabbitHole, Developer DAO, etc. DAOESCO
Relevant Experience -- share why you'll be great!
We’re researchers who study institutions, who have been navigating the institutions of education and, at the same time, have been quite involved in the Web3 space.
Graphic or video link
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