2025-06-13 –, Workshop - Cinema 9
How might we design protocols that shape behaviors and address real-world challenges? In this workshop, we will individually map behavioral patterns, prioritize key challenges, and merge our ideas to develop protocol concepts that encourage positive interactions. Borrowing from design principles used by companies like Google and Apple, this session will provide hands-on experience in structuring sociotechnical rules - without much discussion. No technical background is required—just curiosity and a willingness to be creative.
This workshop is an interactive exploration of socio-technical protocol design. Participants are invited to reflect on beneficial and problematic behavioral patterns - and, through a guided process, combine the ideas to design protocols that support constructive behaviors while mitigating undesirable ones.
Using methodologies from design thinking, popularized by Google Ventures and widely applied in successful companies, we will follow a structured approach:
Prioritising key challenges – Selecting the most impactful social challenges to address as a team.
Mapping behaviors – Identifying behavioral practices, both positive and negative.
Protocol component ideation – Brainstorming rules and frameworks that support desired behaviors while introducing friction to undesired ones.
Protocol creation - Merging components into coherent and implementable protocol concepts.
The workshop is open to anyone interested in protocol development, regardless of technical expertise. If you have a technical background, this session will help clarify which protocols are worth building for a more supportive society. Additionally, participants will gain practical experience in rapidly aligning different perspectives and expertise without discussion to create unique concepts.
Andrej Berlin is an expert in web3-native design and organizational development.
He is the founder of the decentralised design collective Deep Work.
Beth McCarthy is a Berlin-based strategist, researcher and experience designer. She is currently a Program Director at Funding the Commons/Earth Commons and Ecosystem Lead at LayerLabs (layer.xyz), passionate about community weaving in the public goods and open web space.