CCS is welcoming everyone back to campus for the UnSemester: a series of community-focused events, collaboration, learning, and building.

Master community architects Rafa and David Spinks joined Crypto, Culture, and Society to talk about using metaphors as a tool for building healthy communities in Web3. Known for combining organizational design theory with digital-first community practice, Rafa is the community lead at Mirror and a contributor at Cabin and other DAOs. David cofounded CMX and led community at Bevy until recently. He is the author of The Business of Belonging and host of the Masters of Community podcast.

Crypto, Culture, & Society hosted breakthrough multimedia artists Latashá and Sirsu for a lively talk about Latashá’s pioneering approach to cultivating community, talent, and attention in the NFT space. This is a condensed and edited version of their conversation. 

Pioneering web3 technologist, writer, and artist Simon de la Rouviere, founder of Untitled Frontier, came to CCS for a mind-expanding talk on the new frontier for narratives and storytelling.

Antoine Sakho, a product leader with over ten years of experience shipping award-winning apps to 100+ million users (he was Head of Product at Busuu, which was acquired by Chegg), is currently working with TwoPlus to support Mental Fitness in the DAO ecosystem. He recently joined Crypto, Culture, & Society to deliver a talk on the intersection of Web3 and mental health.

Shreyas Hariharan is the co-founder at Llama, a company that builds economic infrastructure for DAOs. Llama has worked with a number of leading DAOs, including Aave, Uniswap, Gitcoin, PoolTogether, Fei Protocol, FWB, dYdX, Radicle, Harvest Finance, and many others. He visited the Crypto, Culture, & Society virtual campus recently to talk about building an economy within a DAO.

David Ehrlichman, cofounder of Converge, a network of practitioners who cultivate impact networks, recently joined Crypto, Culture, & Society for a talk on building communities to effectively address systemic issues. David is the author of Impact Networks, which has influenced the organizational architecture of many of the largest DAOs.

David Phelps, lead investor at Cowfund, co-creator of ecodao and jokedao, and writer of Three Quarks, came to Crypto, Culture, & Society to talk about what Marx can teach us about web3.

Austin Robey share what he’s learned while building in both the DAO and co-op space, as well as some things to consider as web3 moves forward.