Can we regenerate a territory that is already culturally compact through tokenomic incentives? How can we empower its most creative and committed stakeholders according to their place-based impact? Turn them into an incentivized, coordinated multi-disciplinary collective

DAOs have a lot to learn from the history of open source communities.

First they challenged the status quo with their ideas, then with their lifestyle, then with their wealth, then with their politics... Take a look

Contradiction between my desire to see more diversity in interesting *cultures* and my realization that maintaining a culture that's distinct from the mainstream seems to often require *some* kind of insanity or artificial barrier or similar thing that I ideologically dislike.

Highly recommend having a serious love affair with a place, even if all you want is to build your own

Cult of place To see God wherever you look Città ideale To draw an image of paradise in your mind’s eye Gesamtkunstwerk To make a garden in the semblance of Eden here on Earth

Working on something you are driven by is as close to lucid dreaming as it gets It is a means to transform reality in the shape of your ideals; to make possible everything that as of yet is not

“Without Love, there would be no continuity, without Strife no activity or new creation”

“In the old mythology, immortal youth and loveliness were the privilege of the gods; now, in Lucretius’ vision, our own world enjoys this blessing”

“See how nature refashions one thing from another, and won’t allow a birth unless it is midwived by another’s death”

"Knowing how to read architecture means understanding how the peoples of the past have shaped the problems of their time. In this sense, architecture is configured as a 'complex' gesture: the work of art is an affirmation of thought." Luca Taddio