 Case, from DAO DAO, will be taking Nathan Schneider's place for this event. 

Join us for the Metagov House series at ETH Denver. We are hosting four discussions/workshops looking at: 

This workshop will take participants through a discussion and play-based exploration of collective design and governance of games. 

Participants will hear talks from Paul and Nathan on attention surfaces and in-game organization, and break-out into groups to play a modified game of "We-Ness" and think together about questions like these: 

(Google Doc) before registering for this event to see if this is something you would like to participate in. 

Metagov House @ ETH Denver - Collective Game Design and Governance

This event's workshop is focused on attention governance:

In this age of endless information and distractions, rethinking governance and economies also requires rethinking how we govern our attention, at both the individual and community level. For example: How is the attention of members being allocated in a given community? What kinds of interfaces do we need to organize our attention across multiple communities? How do members gain enough knowledge to make informed decisions? How much should communities expect of their members’ attention?

Corporate capitalism dominates our current economy to the extent that most people cannot imagine any alternative to it (if trying to imagine any at all). Similarly, the platform capitalism of social media platforms has locked us into a harmful yet seemingly inevitable attention economy. Platforms enact a “tyranny of convenience” in which it becomes increasingly harder to imagine, let alone implement, viable alternatives to a reality in which our attention is monetized, managed, and mediated by algorithms over which we have little say or control.

In this workshop we wish to explore together regenerative attention economies, which we hope will be more cooperative, decentralized and participatory, as well as more mindful of human abilities and limitations. Participants will come away with some basic frameworks for thinking about attention in governance, and their contributions will help inform a new research project on this topic at the Metagovernance Project.

More practically, some themes and questions we want to discuss in the workshop include: