#139: A Pop-Up City Comes to Florianopolis with Jean Hansen and Victor Cioffi

Feb 18, 2025

Jean Hansen, a technologist and documentary producer on network societies, and Victor Cioffi, a community leader in the Solana ecosystem, discuss their innovative project, Ipê City, a month-long pop-up city in Florianopolis. They share their vision of gathering 150-200 techno-optimists to prototype solutions for Brazil's pressing issues in finance, governance, and education. The duo explores the unique aspects of pop-up cities compared to traditional conferences and emphasizes a hands-on, collaborative approach to community-building and cultural change.

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INSIGHT

Pop-Up Cities As Network State MVPs

Pop-up cities operationalize the 'network state' idea by testing institutions in the real world.
They create concentrated environments to prototype governance, social tech, and economic coordination.

INSIGHT

Culture Enables Institutional Change

Culture drives adoption of tech and regulatory change according to the hosts.
Shifting culture makes it easier to pass laws, create businesses, and align frameworks with innovation.

ANECDOTE

Zupass: A Privacy Passport Example

The Zupass passport was developed during an early pop-up city to solve identity access without revealing personal data.
It uses zero-knowledge proofs so participants prove membership without exposing identities.

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Jean Hansen and and Victor Cioffi are core team members of Ipê City, which is a month-long Pop-Up city experiment coming to Florianopolis from April 22 - May 22.

We discuss their vision for bringing together 150-200 techno-optimists, builders, and innovators in Brazil's Silicon Valley to prototype solutions to real world problems facing Brazil and Latin America.

Ipê City is modeled after the "network state" concepts pioneered by Balaji Srinivasan and others and will explore solutions in the realms of finance, governance, healthcare, education.

00:03 - Introduction and overview of pop-up cities in crypto01:36 - Background prior involvement with Network States05:36 - The vision and cultural goals of Ipe City08:36 - Understanding network states vs pop-up cities11:46 - The evolution from Zuzalu to current pop-up cities14:59 - Unique aspects of pop-up cities vs conferences18:37 - Ipe City's specific objectives and structure22:43 - Weekly cycles and program structure25:22 - Target participants and sandbox approach31:09 - Partnerships and future vision34:21 - Closing thoughts and how to get involved

You can connect with Jean and Victor on X/Twitter and Linkedin. To learn more go to Ipê City or https://docs.ipe.city/. You can also join the Telegram group

To learn more about Jean's previous work in the Prospera community, have a look at the first edition in his Network States documentary series

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