Season 5 marked the partnership between Protein Agency and Protein Community in an entirely new take on collaborative research and collective creation. We aimed to decentralize the creation and curation process while also challenging our existing methodologies. This was done in order to facilitate more mutual discoveries, and all were conducted "in the open" via our existing channels and platforms.

Revisiting Anecdotal Archives:

At the very end of last year, I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Mindy Seu, editor and gatherer of the Cyberfeminism Index - an evolving, collaborative archive of projects working towards cyberfeminist futures dating from 1985 to today. The project initially began as an online archive but has now been created into a BIG, BEAUTIFUL book!

Protein Community is a global group of cultural creators who commune online and IRL to collaboratively build a better future. We’ve been tracking the people and ideas that permeate culture through our Supplement, Reports and Journals since 1997 — and more recently been using Web3 tools and our $PRTN token to bring together brilliant minds to collaboratively discover and incubate projects that align with our Good Growth values.

Reflecting on 25 years of Protein and making plans for the future. Find out what's to come in Season 5.

Before Season 3 there was no Good Growth channel in the Protein Discord, despite its significance in shaping our Seasons up until this point. For Season 3, we set our sights on “making Good Growth tangible” to support the nascent Impact DAO ecosystem around us, as well as becoming more GGth ourselves. Up until now, we had been playing a supporting function, so we set out to understand how we could be of service.

DAO operations are a massive experiment. There is no right answer to just one question. Feedback—implementing it, iterating it, and re-implementing it—is the way we choose to lead our onboarding in the Protein Community. We’ve changed the way we give access to members almost every season and this season, we’ve arrived at our “Season Pass” NFTs.

We connected with some of our favourite people IRL(!!) in Paris during ETH CC to host one of many Roundtables. Read the digest.

This piece is written by Deniz, Community Design Lead for the Protein Community. Deniz thinks deeply about community design, community strategy, and digital culture.