Burning Man Project
Assoc. Director of Engagement
Berkeley, California, USA
USA
Erica Blair (better known as Erica Fuck Yeah) supports Burning Man Project’s latest projects around future visioning, decision making, and engagement strategy. A champion of new economic models, participatory governance, and philosophically informed decision making, Erica’s passion lies in bringing burners together to imagine how this movement can act as an effective lever for planetary paradigm shift.
With a background in brand strategy, experience design, and emerging technology, Erica’s focus has long been on unlocking the potential of decentralized networks via collaboration and connection.
Offer
I focus on engaging people in participatory experiences that open new pathways for collaboration and connection. If you want to chat about experience design, including how to make events more immersive and engaging by avoiding content that could just as well be on YouTube, I’d love to talk. I have also deeply studied network governance at Burning Man and can provide perspective on network design from the standpoint of a network that is four decades into experimenting with the paradox between emergence and organization.
NEED
I am seeking to connect with people who can advise on participatory governance models that might be able to work at some degree of scale. Burning Man is a relatively fractal ecosystem full of groups of all different sizes and needs. We need to figure out who should have a voice in shaping where the Burning Man event, organization, and culture goes from here, and how we might best implement new forms of decision making in a post-founder era. I am also interested generally in hearing from anyone who has thoughts on the future of Burning Man, how it could be most impactful as a cultural force in the world, what could and should change in the way Burning Man Project operates, and how we may continue to be bold in imagining what is next for this unique cultural force.
Call-to-Action
I dedicate myself to Burning Man because I believe it creates the conditions where people can have an embodied experience of a new paradigm, one that operates (in some ways) on alternate economic logic, and relies deeply on collaborative effort to rise from the dust. I believe that the energy and resource expenditure that goes into Burning Man is only justifiable to the degree that it provides the platform for imagining the world anew, and prototyping the kind of world that we would like to live in. What will it take for Burning Man to more deeply embody the principles it espouses? How might we evolve this movement to meet the moment we are in today, and toward which the world is headed? If these questions spark anything for you, let’s please connect.
