A Global Movement Towards Networked Co-Living Cooperatives
There are many well intentioned voices, groups and community brands.
Each the centre of their own gravity well, with unique principles, values and cultural personalities.
Diagnosis
What’s going on here?
Convergence of tokenization, metaverse, launch of Apple’s Vision Pro, global trends towards sustainability, migration out of urban into rural lifestyles. Crypto bull-run projected to peak in 2025. Collapse in confidence in global governments. People searching for new lifestyles, security, better health, work life balance, opportunity.
Many emerging co-living cooperatives of one flavor or another. https://cocohub.io is a wonderful effort to collate projects on one map. https://lociproperty.com/ is one specific example of a startup for cooperative coliving.
Where could we go?
We can appeal to many types of stakeholder, from landscape designers (permaculture, bio architecture, etc) through to virtual designers (metaverse, augmented reality), educators, community leaders, web3 builders,
Categories for collaboration include:
- Online Communities and Startup Societies
- Co-Living Communities & Cooperatives
- Use of Special Economic Zones (existing or newly negotiated)
- Gamify Local Civil Governance
- Start A Country
Policy Direction
What will we move towards?
So far, the idea is a tri-part focus of sustainability, metaverse (meetings and artistic experience), and health.
Imagine a physical/virtual venue, with some attendees physically present on the property with others beaming in via the Digital Twin metaverse using a VR headset.
- The physical land will be maintained as a nature reserve, with augmented reality experiences including education on sustainability, syntropic agroforestry, biomimicry, soil health, the bio-energetics of living close to nature, and more.
- The digital twin virtual space will be home to training, education and networking events.
Altogether a new melting pot of future-focused ideas and ideals.
Landscaping, architecture, construction methods, community spaces, and facilities will be co-designed and even co-owned by a new community, based on a legal cooperative model. There is a lot of opportunity available for contributors and partners.
What should we limit ourselves to?
The focus is not on games for entertainment within our metaverse concept, but certainly gamification and entertainment are natural parts of a good life.
We also don’t want to replace the human experience or our biological authenticity, but we also want to include technology to enhance the human condition as much as maintains the integrity of humanity.
No public community development as yet.
Action
What shall we aim at exactly?
Research on the digital twin infrastructure, utility tokenomics, singularity advocates.
SingularityHaven will provide a similar opportunity within the Digital Twin, along with shared ownership of actual physical construction projects on the 110 acres of nature reserve itself.
In this way we expect the realization of actual asset value in the real-world, coupled with the adventure of innovation within the metaverse.
Imagine a series of events, not run by any one new group, but run by many. One selected group hosts an event and passes the torch to another group to host the next event. In this way we encourage excellence and participation without diluting or disrupting each groups own brand focus with a chance to achieve widespread synergy for networked co-living cooperatives.
What shall we do first, and next?
- Build network and connections to learn and inspire ideas
- Co-create economic models such as the Camazotz Economic Model first published on LinkedIn here.
Mixed Realities
With headlines like this, our ability to travel will become unlimited via VR.
With headlines for software like this, imagination runs as wild as our 45 hectares of jungle property.
Imagine:
Layer 1
The physical property we now own the title deeds for (equivalent to 45 standard city blocks in size, and slightly large than Vatican City); physical, real-world, and in the flesh, so to speak. Huge space for regenerative co-living, ecotourism hospitality, and more. But that’s only just layer 1…
Layer 2
Augmented Reality experiences for people at the physical property wearing smart goggles as they move around the property with all sorts of edutainment, such as exercise classes delivered by a digital trainer, permaculture education… basically anything that we might want to add into a mixed reality experience. Then comes:
Layer 3
Now imagine a typical metaverse launch, whether it’s a virtual representation of reality (like an Upland) or just a virtual landscape (like a Decentraland), virtual experiences are here to stay and Camazotz Cohaven intends to be no slouch on the matter. We envision a metaverse as a Digital Twin of the property itself. A virtual space that matches our actual land-based facilities.
Sidenote before Layer 4 blows yer soxxs clean off yer feet:
The virtual reality (if we have the necessary metaverse artefacts, can outshine the structures available on the physical property by orders of magnitude. But here comes the differentiator…
Layer 4
Now imagine that our NFTs for land parcels act as a kind of deed for building permission on the actual physical land represented by that land parcel NFT? To clarify the point:
- Upland can sell fake parcels of real locations, we can sell actual parcel rights for real locations. We guess many projects will move towards this model now that the idea is out of the bag, assuming we’re first to do it.
- Decentraland is worth a fortune.. just as Sandbox and many others, yet have no real claim in any sense of reality whatsoever. Sooner or later, people will choose to move assets to platforms (virtual worlds) that connect to human value… and we’ll be ready.
- Our property literally contains a registered nature reserve, that we can and will maintain, while increasing the ecology via agroforestry to create a new nature haven abundance. This topic of regenerative agriculture, reversing deforestation and building back the worlds healthy soils are mega trends of our era, in case you didn’t know already. The market for NFTs that preserve and improve our ecology is at its starting point with a mammoth potential.
- We love smart tech as much as we love the sense of being surrounded by authentic healthy natural environments — the balanced combination of these will lead us to landscape architectural designs at the forefront of smart city wellness (another big mega trend in itself).
So imagine…
You can buy NFTs inside of a virtual metaverse with all the standards bells and whistles for building inside the metaverse, interacting, and trading digital assets…
…plus…
You will have a binding claim (within the bounds of our governance determined building restrictions of course) to actually have your property creations built at the physical property located in Yucatan Mexico… which you can rent, lend out, or visit for trips or extended stays.
We will gradually be building a co-living community on the property anyway. A place for digital nomads, young families, or off-grid nature enthusiasts to escape urban life and find a better balance in a rural environment with a community of like-minds.
If this combination concept of a land-DAO metaverse doesn’t give you goosebumps… either we haven’t explained ourselves well enough or the convergence of multi billion dollar trends just isn’t your thing 🙂