ZuVillage Movement
December 10, 2024 #pop-up cities #zuzalu #governanceA ZuVillage is a specific style of pop-up villages in the bluprint of Zuzalu to promote open source technology and seek avenues of "human flourishing" as opposed to profit or centralized power. Core characteristics are diversity, curiosity, kindness, health, decentralization. They are incubators for new technologies, from cryptography to social structure experiments.
The Zuzalu Nonprofit Organization
While the role of the nonprofit is not yet concrete, some ideas below come from Zuzalu.city
2024: Open Frontier
At the end of 2023, the Zuzalu frontier was opened:
We take the 2024 “spring of spinoffs” concept as inspiration, and make that be the only thing we do in 2024. We extend it to cover the whole year.
We intentionally do NOT DO any of the following:
- Have an explicit primary headline long-duration event
- Have an explicit concept of “Zuzalu citizens” or “Zuzalu residents”
- Attach the name “Zuzalu” to a specific physical event in general
We do:
- Actively encourage people, both inside the existing community and on the edges of it, to run their own Zu-villages. It’s totally okay and even encouraged for some of these Zu-villages to be simultaneous with and beside each other!
- Strongly consider providing funding to some of these groups
- Continue to stay together as a group, both virtually and through in-person chats at various Zu-villages, to (i) coordinate on supporting digital public goods that would be common across these Zu-villages and (ii) engage in cross-pollination and intellectual discussion
- Continue to be open to multiple paths in 2025, eg: moving toward becoming “United Networks”, coming back into doing some kind of larger event, etc. 2024 will be Zuzalu 2.0, 2025 will be Zuzalu 3.0; the future going that far out is unknown.
In 2024, Zuzalu has grown into a decentralised movement with many initiatives.
⚠️ There is no official Zuzalu account, so watch out for anything that claims to be a single source of truth for "Zuzalu" as a whole.