BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Helena Rong (NYU Shanghai) DTSTART:20260108T010000Z DTEND:20260108T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260417T093555Z UID:Metagov/272 DESCRIPTION:Title: Turning to Trust Experience Design\nby Helena Rong (NYU Shanghai) as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nPlease note this seminar wi ll take place at a different (more Asia-friendly) time**\n\n​Join us for a Metagov Seminar with Metagov's newest research director\, Dr. Helena Ro ng. Helena is an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Business at NYU Shanghai\, with an interdisciplinary focus on urban technology\, colle ctive intelligence\, and digital governance. Her work examines how emergin g technologies (blockchains\, decentralized AI\, urban IoT) can transform collective life and foster new forms of civic trust. She leads research on Trust Experience Design (TXD)\, intentional communities and digital nomad ism\, and the institutional challenges posed by the emerging agentic web. Across her projects\, she explores how sociotechnical systems can enable m ore resilient\, participatory\, and imaginative modes of urban living.\n\n ​In her seminar presentation\, she will share about her work with a focu s around "Turning to Trust Experience Design (TXD): A Manifesto for the Fu ture of Distributed Autonomous Intelligence in the Wild. Helena has previo usly worked with Metagov RDs on Open Problems in DAOs and the State of DAO s in China report. She has also co-authored the recently published\, "The Dao of the DAO: Eastern Philosophies in Decentralized Worlds."\n\nPrevious ly\, Helena conducted research at MIT’s Real Estate Innovation Lab (co-a uthoring the book Value of Design: Creating Agency Through Data-Driven Ins ights\, 2025) and at the MIT Senseable City Lab\, working on autonomous ur ban systems (“roboat” waterborne vehicles for public spaces). As a 202 2–23 Technology and Public Purpose Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center\, she studied decentralized trust-building frameworks and te ch policy.\n\n​We are so thrilled to welcome Helena to the Metagov Resea rch Community!\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/272/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR