This article by @kimzwarch is part of a blockchain collaboration series. Learn more about the Sndbox #cryptocollab initiative, here.
Yes, teamwork makes the dream work!
In this month’s exercise, it is all about collaboration and I am all about collaboration. I am a believer of teamwork as it has brought me to a different height and it brings more value to the table. I always wanted to collaborate with different people which made me start @archisteemon Steemit, so that my journey is not a lonely one :P
SketchNation x Archisteem
After working on @archisteem for some time, the team always wanted to realize the vision of promoting awareness and empower the community to be involved with the betterment of our future built environment. Besides writing about it, we wanted to expand our channel to be more influential which then led us to experience, memory and photography. That is how we want to portray the value of places, through the eyes of different people to more people.
Nonetheless, there is always a limited scalability whereby the stories needed to be curated and refine into short and sweet compiled stories for the community to consume. Therefore, it requires time and effort from our side to get the work done. I would like to thank @mattifer, @delishtreats and @eric-isaiah for the hard work done. We still need more manpower to do all the curation, when we have 1001 stories to curate, that is not an easy one-day task.
Knowing our own project limitation, there is always thoughts of expanding and making ourselves able to reach more people and spread the message about sustainability.
On the other hand, @kymio had been working on his NGO, Sketchnation for four years, which is truly impressive and admirable. He initiated this at first is to promote sketching to people and let more people able to express themselves through sketches. After the progression of operating the NGO, he concluded that this is actually a good way to promote sustainable lifestyle to more people. Through sketching, especially urban sketching, people are more aware about the surrounding infrastructure and buildings. When they sketch, there will be thoughts about all the elements around them. With that spark, the sketching event can turn into an educative session to learn more about our built environment. This is truly a very fun and efficient way to embed such idea to a person mind.
Besides that, Sketchnation is not only focusing on a very specific community or people. The NGO aims to make sketching a skill that is able to be learned and applied with ease. That, I truly agree that sketching should be that way. We should not be judgmental on the sketch; every sketch has its value and thoughts behind. Due to our own skepticism, we don’t want to show our poor sketching skill and that makes us reluctant to start sketching. Through Sketchnation event, it is possible to break such skepticism and get people to draw.
@kymio is a person with ambition and vision. He wanted to bring Sketchnation to the global stage rather than just staying local in Malaysia. After all, sketching is a skill that is learnable by everyone! This led him to setting up the NGO that he founded and making the operation more systematic and able to scale. Most importantly, he kept reinventing the Sketchnation to make it sustainable so that it can run without too dependent with sponsors.
With that notion, we started to explore the possibilities on how to make an initiative sustainable. It is the same problem that I am facing with @archisteem whereby I can’t find a way to fund the project. Besides having the help of all the generous backers like @funditionand @sndbox, it is good to have more ways to sustain the operation. This is one way to reduce risk and make the initiative more sustainable and attractive.
From this meal, we had put the idea of combining the real world, Sketchnation and the virtual world, Archisteem into one. This is one super exciting thing that I am really looking forward to. There are just so many possibilities that we can do together to promote our unanimous vision which is the betterment of our future built environment, making our life sustainable. As of now, we are just using @busy.org as our platform to operate. Yet, we are considering developing our own DApp to cater the operation of Archisteem and Sketchnation. In addition to that, to launch of our token based on these activities is a very high possibility!
Looking forward to getting the framework out and start to execute the plans 🙂 Stay tuned!
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This post was authored by @kimzwarch, a member of the sndbox incubator. Learn more, follow @kimzwarch or begin a conversation in the comment section below.
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Hi @kimzwarch, @sndbox,
I'm super excited to learn about this lovely idea. I must say, it totally matches with what I've been trying to promote through my blogposts in my own little (minnow) way. I really hope I can collaborate with you in anyway possible. Please say yes :)
I'm an artist by talent, and I've been doing hand drawn sketches for people here on steemit through giveaways, as a way of making friends and promoting Steem.
@teamsteem & @karensuestudios
Steemfest 3000
Kraków
I'd love to be a part of this project @archisteem
Cheers!
Wow, nice sketches you have there @luxx! We will be launching our project soon which very much relates to your third sketch (sneak peek).
And Yes, we definitely would like to see how we can collaborate together!
This is what we always believed in. Feel free to reach me on Discord (kimzwarch #4124).
@kimzwarch, Great to know about this Collaboration and in my opinion one thing we have to conclude and that is, we have many hidden talents in this world but people are not getting the Exposure due to lack of resources but now the times are changing and in my opinion Blockchain Platforms are now giving hope to everyone and people are now coming towards the Blockchain Platforms to showcase their art and also they are able to monetise their work with Crypto. I want to wish success to both Archisteem and SketchNation.
Wishing you and @sndbox Team an great day and stay blessed. 🙂
Thanks @chireerocks! We see this platform as an empowering tool for creative people to produce their work and get rewarded. Conventionally, it is not possible whereby the ecosystem does not have this incentive system to reward content creation. We see creativity as an asset to all of us and could be a sort of currency for all :) Something that we can work on.
Welcome and good luck for the Future Initiatives and Developments. And hope that this collaboration will going to produce effective and productive results. Have a great time ahead. 🙂
Thanks! Stay tuned :) We are looking forward as well.
Welcome and sure. 🙂
It's exciting to see that you both @kimzwarch + @kymio met in person! There's a lot of great connections between both Archisteem and Sketchnation that tap into what social blockchains can offer the arts.
Looking forward to learning more :D
Thank you! Will definitely update everyone on the movement! :)
What can I say, thank you @sndbox for putting up such a great platform for us and get us to think about collaboration. We do see there are a lot of talented artists in @sndbox too! Just so many possibilities!
Love the Idea...
going from the real world:
To online:
I work for the SteemDecathlon maybe we can can cross promote:
Contact me at: [email protected]
Thanks @steeminati, will take a look and see how we can work on this.
Hi @sndbox, I'm @checky ! While checking the mentions made in this post I noticed that @eric-isiah doesn't exist on Steem. Did you mean to write @eric-isaiah ?
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!help.Thanks @checky! Good catch there :)
Ah, sharp eye!
I have difficulties drawing stick figures let alone sketches :D, I bet people like me give you headaches :P
We do encourage people not to judge on their or others artwork :) Just let it flow through you and express with whatever medium you are using.
Nice @sndbox! Really enjoyed meeting up with Sndboxer and interact. The more excitement comes when we start to dip into collaboration! Personally, I am happy to have met with @kymio too and we have no idea on things will evolve to what it is today. I still remembered the first time we met was when we wished each other the best to get into @sndbox cohort 2 :P Then, here we are together in Cohort 2, working together to accomplish something. Thanks for giving us such platform to have fun with :)
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