We are composed of a core team of 7 people - designers, developers and project managers - who have been working on this project for more than 2 years. We are supported by the Civic Tech Studio of Dark Matter Labs which gives product development support as well as ethics and open source compliance advice. We are also supported by the [Radicle Civics Arc](https://radiclecivics.cc/) of Dark Matter Labs which provides design and research support around decentralized governance and commoning.

[Eunji Kang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eunjikangsin/) (South Korea/UK, based in Pyeongtaek)
Eunji has worked in systems change and experimental product development for over a decade. Her projects in Dark Matter Labs include a focus on urban and environmental governance, new forms of agency and intelligence, and innovating financial instruments for regenerative economies across different geographical regions and contexts. She has been co-leading the Re:Permissioning the City project since 2021.

[Eunsoo Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tteslee/) (South Korea, based in Seoul)
Eunsoo is a strategic designer and researcher at Dark Matter Labs with a focus on data governance/ethics, civic tech and systems analysis. She has been co-leading the Re:Permissioning the City project since 2021. Outside of her day job, she is also an active member and organizer of [Code for Korea](https://codefor.kr/), a civic tech community in Korea.

[Donghun Ohn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donghunohn/) (South Korea, based in Seoul)
Donghun is a blockchain developer who will be joining the team from mid August. With a background in Anthropology, he has worked as a project manager as well as a developer in urban regeneration and urban ethnographic research projects in South Korea.

[Fang-Jui 'Fang-Raye' Chang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fang-jui-chang/) (Taiwan/UK, based in London)
Fang is a Responsible Innovation Lead, Co-holder of Radicle Civics, and Strategic Designer at Dark Matter Labs primarily focused on societal structural transition and new civics. They have experience in democratic innovation, public service design and prototyping, open policy-making and rule-making, and large-scale civic participation and facilitation.

[Calvin Po](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pocalvin/) (Hong Kong/Canada, based in London)
Calvin is a strategic designer at Dark Matter Labs, co-leading the Radicle Civics Arc, where he explores institutional and governance systems as sites of design. He has led projects with the Scottish Government’s Land Commission on land governance reform, the Taiwanese Government on decentralized web3 civic infrastructure, and is developing multi-actor governance approaches for river ecosystems, and in FreeHouse, a commons housing model based on ‘self-owning’ houses.

[Shu Yang Lin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuyanglin/) (Taiwan, based in London)
Shu Yang has spent the last decade rearchitecting channels for democracy and technology to support each other. She has been a contributor of [vTaiwan](https://info.vtaiwan.tw/) since 2016, and currently works as an interaction designer at the AI Objectives Institute, alongside her involvement in Dark Matter Labs projects.

[Theo Campbell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-campbell/) (Australia, based in Paris)
Theo is a social worker at heart but has always had an interest in technology and how it can be used for social change. He currently works as a frontend web developer at Dark Matter Labs and is also part of the [Circulaw](https://www.circulaw.nl/en) team.

Our partnerships in this project include [Parti.coop](http://parti.coop) - a social cooperative (non-profit) that builds technologies for democracy in South Korea, and the Urban Bureau of Daegu Metropolitan City which is in the process of purchasing derelict heritage buildings and renovating them for public use. Our current and past funders include Daegu Metropolitan City, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Daegu Technopark, the National IT Industry Promotion Agency, and Partners for a New Economy.

**ABOUT DARK MATTER LABS**
Dark Matter Labs is an ambitious not-for-profit working on what is needed to manifest transformations to our food, housing, land, material and nature systems towards a future of mutual thriving. In doing this, we analyze the shifts it requires in the underlying ‘dark matter’ - monetary, economic, governance, regulatory and policy systems - to make this possible, and we work with partners to demonstrate these alternatives in neighborhoods, cities and bioregions. We share these insights openly for mutual learning.

Dark Matter Labs Korea is one of five Dm entities spread around the world, and the only entity located in Asia. We have been working with local governments, civil society organizations and individual innovators across the Asian region since 2020, hoping to contribute to knowledge and narrative building around a new civic economy that can take on the planetary challenges we face today.