FIRST METAVERSE ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN BIENNALE This proposal is now in status: REJECTED. Voting Results: * Yes 29% 2,717,015 VP (45 votes) * No 71% 6,581,435 VP (43 votes)

Some questions before I cast my vote. Is the statement below a projection of visitors? What will you do to encourage or ensure you will get close to this number of visitors? [quote="dao, post:1, topic:17003"] 50 000+ visitors [/quote] Do you already have a commitment from the ARHead platform? How much money will they be contributing to this proposal? [quote="dao, post:1, topic:17003"] 2 metaverse platforms [/quote] Your document later states these are entities to be invited. Do you have commitments from any of them that they will participate? What sort of agreement will you reach? Will they be paid or will their participation be based solely on the prospect of winning part of the $20k? [quote="dao, post:1, topic:17003"] 10+ expositions by headliners [/quote] What is the following expectation based on? Have you hosted similar events that have produced comparable numbers? [quote="dao, post:1, topic:17003"] We expect to reach coverage of 2+m people only through creators and partners social media [/quote] $40k will go to the following: [quote="dao, post:1, topic:17003"] The rest will be directed to development, 3d modeling, onboarding, management, curation of the contest and media coverage. [/quote] what is the direct return on investment for these dollars spent? How many new wallets will access the DCL servers? Will any potential future clients be invited to this event? Having more builders and creators in the space is a good thing. Will the onboarding of these new builders and creators include them submitting to be listed in the Verified Registry? Performance problems in Decentraland can be linked to poorly designed scenes deployed in world. What best practices does the event intend to educate the participants about during the different stages of your event?

Hey @bay ! Thank you for your comment. We respect any opinion, I will answer the points with your permission: 1. To be honest, I don't know why we don't specify the geography of the team. Probably because we consider it unimportant inside metaverse. But even among the specified development team for dcl is Georgia, Ukraine, Israel, Russia. What about genders - so it happened, it’s not a point for us to be in “only male company” =) 2. We have a PR/promo/shilling team as well as experience and connection with specialized architectural media and influencers and more mass media. For example, the Dearch project on the ARhead platform - DEIP city https://medium.com/deip/deip-to-open-first-metaverse-city-914ed13de9c6 It was published in more than 50 world media, and the Metancy project “Pulses birthday by Tinkoff” https://m.lenta.ru/news/2022/09/01/plc/ was published in mass media with a total coverage of 7 million people. 3. We have listed only those companies with which we have a direct connection and will be happy to share their confirmations in the monthly grant updates. Several of them have already confirmed their participation and support the idea.

Hey guys, voting no for a couple of reasons: 1. For a high-profile cross-metaverse project of this scale, I'd want to see a more diverse team. Diversity in terms of gender, geography and experience. 2. The most important skills for the sucess of this project are under-represented in your team. You need collaborators with proven professional experience in PR and events management. 3. It's not OK to list international celebrities and architectural press without getting their pre-approval that they will support the idea. I would even suggest running with an MVP to demonstrate that you can garner this level of support for your event plans, before pitching DAO.

:+1: :+1: :+1: Sounds great!

Salute everyone and wish you a lot of joy in the upcoming holidays! METANCY with partners has been working on the concept of the Biennale for a long time, but for a long time we did not dare to drop out the proposal because we sincerely believe that grants should be received by companies that have already proved their usefulness for the DCL and for the community, and also made successful projects developing the DCL. Now we can confidently consider ourselves one of such teams. Here are the brightest highlights that describe METANCY 🚀 1. Official ru-speaking community @decentraland_ru is a Telegram based community with more than 1200 people onboard opened in 2019 by owners of METANCY and DAPPCRAFT. Open structure of community let it to meet newbies and answer any questions about DCL in few seconds. Our team constantly provides events and meet-ups to share Decentraland with new users. We created FAQ’s and manuals for users, creators and investors to make them an easier way to DCL. Decentraland_ru unites people from all CIS countries including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, Aizerbaijan and lot more countries speaking ru language.  2. Metaverse Rick YouTube channel is a source of our CPO Rick where he enlightens Decentraland for ru-speaking YouTube viewers. There is a lot of theoretical and practical materials leading people from the basics of creating a web 3 wallet and signing into DCL. Rick with our CTO Demid was a guests on the show with 35000 views talking about metaverse and dcl especially.  3. Metancy pool / Metancy art is a non-commercial scenes in DCL coordinating at -49;73. There we made amount of community events and help to develop music and art figures not only by providing space but in same time with our marketing and shilling possibilities.  4. Pulses birthday by Tinkoff bank is a commercial project represeted huge 2 days event on 15 parcels scene fully developed and handled by Metancy team. Reaches more than 7700 visitors with med. session time 24 min. and 50k+ viewers during YouTube stream. Main is media coverage - press release with straight link to DCL was pushed by Tinkoff in medias with total coverage more than 7 mil people. Isn’t it a goal?)  5. ANZA architect education center is a beautiful scene locating in -1 ; 120 which is great piece of meta-architecture created by Metancy and it’s not all. Project has an utility, ANZA provides there an educational courses with 50+ new DCL users onboard just during the first wave. 

@MetaverseRick now you vote in conflict of interest? 

Hello, @Metancy I could give a list of personal opinions on Grants enacted that will naturally bring architecture and design to DCLs infrastructure. Instead, mainly I just don’t see the need in supporting the amount for such a marketing event.

Oh please excuse me if i was so emotional, no fingers on you) For sure i know my voting history and you got me that im not so active. But nobody manage my vote and opinion. Im trying to vote for proposals which is pushing Decentraland forward.

Look at your voting history. https://governance.decentraland.org/profile/?address=0xf7748b4f60a8d36dcd6ccb3d30244baecb1429cf It looks like you haven't voted that often, but when you did, seems favorable to all of the ones Metatrekkers voted on. :thinking: To clarify, this is not personal. So don't point your finger at me.

Hey @Tudamoon ! It’s Metaverse Rick from Metancy. I don't know why I have to justify myself and the main thing is what. So, I see screenshots, I remember all of it. Then please explain to me what you are accusing me of and what this pics going to proof. How does quid pro quo works in your opinion? This works if we are talking about “empty box”projects to just take money but it isn’t - we diligently answer any question about Biennale, we have prepared a lot and we are happy to show you, we can proof a connection with mentioned architects and already explained how we got it. in this case, even if Chris votes, it will be thanks to a confident project and not because we are doing a "quid pro quo". BTW he doesn’t. It looks like you're trying to fight something that I can't understand by destroying innocent people and good projects in the bud, it's a shame. look - more than a million VP voted "no" and no any questions about the biennale from these people(maybe 1 by alwayschill). is that fair? Thank you mister for what you do and see you at the First Metaverse Architecture & Design Biennale.

@Metancy Yeah this must be a coincidence that with his first message on the chat, you told him you will describe the Metatrekkers for him to everyone in Russian. (This implies this is not your first conversation since you already know about it)  Right here, Chris seems to think you are collaborating..  Let me guess Metaverse Rick's Voting history is irrelevant also? No quid pro quo here?

Hey @Alwayschill ! Thank u for response. Can you please share a links of grants you’re talking about and explain how it can change a paradigm of Biennale? DCL builder competition is something very different than we do. It’s mostly for current DCL creators but we will attract definitely new names into Decentraland. Second reason is that builder competition is something like hackathon behind a scenes, but our goal is to make cultural public event for DCL community and new people being attracted.

I believe your numbers are very enthusiastic. I don’t see the Hype around Arhead to be requesting the amount of grant proposed necessary. There are currently other grants enacted that would change the paradigm of this proposed event in the coming future. Approving this event now before any present grant proposal has finished its grant appears irrelevant. There is also currently a Builder Competition for DCL creators currently enacted.

Not right @Tudamoon , we dont work together in the Ru speaking group, because Ru speaking telegram group is a project opened and managing by Metancy and Chris has nothing to do with it except that we announced beattrekkers. Any DAO member can vote on any proposal and no one of us conspired to vote. If you have a questions about Biennale please ask. We don't understand how the previous question relates to the proposal.

Hey @dax Thank you for your response, we believe that Biennale will show everybody a huge role of architects in the way of building Metaverse. Good question. Main architectural curator of event is Dearch.space, their owner is art director an architect of ATRIUM studio at the same time which is old and well known architect company. So, they have direct communication with the most of mentioned studios, than we have not only a reason, but have several of them approved and continue to discuss. Metancy team is responsible for everything that concerns developing, modelling and shilling in Decentraland and we have needed experience. Here is some deck to show https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i2wYH7bOOVvO5KGoeD8uReAAr-mfD_Rr/view?usp=drivesdk What about architectural events in Metaverse - Dearch and Arhead got a great project together - deip space, take a look https://deip.spaces.arhead.io/

this is a cool idea! there have been a lot of people recently talking about the possibilities for real-world architecture and design applications in the metaverse and a biennale is a great way to make that happen. that being said, what is your current relationship with the architecture firms you mentioned? do you have a reason to believe they will participate? What is your experience with organizing an event like this?

[quote="Metancy, post:7, topic:17003"] CPO Rick was a co-host of the semi-final of the battle [/quote] Yeah MetaverseRick has been voting on all of Metatrekkers' proposals and it shows they have been working quite well together in the Russian Decentraland Telegram group. Are you saying your CPO Metaverse Rick doesn't know if Chris Metatrekkers is going to vote on this? So it will be mere coincidental if Metatrekkers does vote on this?

Hey @Tudamoon ! Thank you for your questions and interest. 1. We are familiar with Metatrekkers after the Dj battle beattrekkers stage took place in our club Metancy pool -49;73, and our CPO Rick was a co-host of the semi-final of the battle. In our opinion, the metatrekkers team is one of the most actively promoting Decentraland at moment. It is important that they bring new people for example by attracting an audience of artists. We support their proposals because we can be sure that they will bring the projects to the end and have already proved it. We don't know if they will vote under this proposal. 2. This amount based on average values of previous events and on media opportunities, subscribers of invited well known architects etc. Yes we've been tracking amount of visitors at MMF, it’s way worse than 2021 but still 5-digit amount during the festival. Next thing that the Architect Biennale is a totally new format which can possibly make hype like MWFW. So no one checked the engagement of architecture community for metaverse. 3. We own a lot of parcels, some of them are empty =) check -1;120 and -49;73 for some meta architecture by Metancy 4. This is described in “open call for participants” - “finalists projects realisation All finalists are guaranteed to receive a grant from the organizers to produce the final spaces for the event”. We don’t want to make Biennale in the way of competition for prizes and leaderboards, rather a joint creation, so grants seem like a great solution. 5. Here we are talking about the fact that visitors will share content due to its uniqueness and quality. Amount of 50,000 repeats your second question.


Thanks for your grant proposal. I have a few questions: 1. @Metancy can you share your relationship with the Metatrekkers? This question is relevant because I see you have retweeted their tweets and also have voted yes on their proposals. I am asking for transparency purposes because I have a feeling they will be voting on your proposal. 2. Are you promising this amount below? [quote="dao, post:1, topic:17003"] 50 000+ visitors based on engagement of Decentraland Art Week, Metaverse Festival and Metaverse Fashion Week [/quote] Are you aware of the numbers seen at this past Metaverse Music Festival? Are you claiming this is how many visitors you are planning to see at your event? 3. When going to Metancy's parcel, I am not seeing any current architecture in Decentraland. Is there a reason for this? 4. Can you share what the $20k is going to be used for the "participants?" 5. This question is in regards to the quote below: How is this event going to create a user experience that is going to keep these 50,000 visitors using Decentraland in the future? Or is this going to be a 1 time thing? [quote="dao, post:1, topic:17003"] Stream coverage on Youtube, Twitch and other platforms; We expect to reach coverage of 2+m people only through creators and partners social media; The content of the Biennale would be aesthetically pleasing, so we expect a lot of user generated content from ~50 000 visitors; [/quote]

why are we requesting a grant from DAO? We decided to ask DAO for several reasons. First and foremost, we want to make this event global for the entire metaverse and one that will help secure Decentraland as the leading blockchain digital world, which is why we need the official support of Decentraland as the main partner of Architecture Biennale. Secondly, on the way to building such an important thing we do not want to depend only on paid sponsorship and commercials, so we ask the DAO for a grant that would cover the costs of a serious work related to event development both at the organization level and at the level of 3D modeling and SDK dev. This request is not in vain posted in the community category because the biennale is directly aimed at developing the metaverse community, generating discussion in it and motivating Creators to create, which is most importantly. That's why we really need feedback from you - anyone who is reading this now!

There was not enough space in the proposal form. Here we attach a list of Biennale organizers. METANCY - team of creative developers based in Metaverse. Creators, developers, Decentraland influencers, owners of 300+ parcels, DAO active members, creative heads and marketing pros. DEARCH - experimental architecture drew experienced architects to the design for the metaverse, AR and VR spaces. They believe it would create a totally new architectural aesthetic and even a new design industry. ARHEAD - creators driven platform to produce content, spaces and events for companies in the Metaverse. Platform provide tools to create unique spaces that can be designed and built to provide a variety of engagement mechanics and activities.