So today is Day Two of my #7in7 project, in which I'm asking the internet to help me (and the projects I'm involved in) with seven challenges for the year ahead. After yesterday's request for help in finding a literary agent, I've had several promising introductions - and some very interesting conversations. A big thank you to everyone who helped, not least those who spread the word via Twitter!

So yes, I want to start a university.

I'm serious about this. As I said in The University in Transition, I think there’s a moment of opportunity right now to do something exciting and important - to salvage what was good from the wreckage of our higher education systems, and to reground it in less damaged and damaging assumptions than those which too often characterised our institutions.

After years of being part of experimental projects - not to mention the experience of School of Everything - I’m ready to do something more ambitious. Yesterday, I had a serious offer of the space and resources to set up a new kind of university in central London.

I’ll be able to say more in the next few weeks about our thinking and the form the project will take, but I can tell you that it comes out of two years of conversations and will embody the ideas and values many of you have seen me speak and write about.

So here's today's challenge: I'd like to talk to the best people in the world to make a project like this as amazing as it could be. Over the next few months, I want to set up meetings with people whose experiences I can learn from.

I'm thinking of those who have been experimenting on the edges or connecting the networks - but also people who have worked at the heart of existing institutions and organisations, while sharing my desire to create better spaces of learning, teaching and research, better-adapted to the networked age, but also more grounded in our human relationships to face the deep challenges of the times in which we find ourselves.

I'm deeply excited about this project. I expect it to be at the heart of my work in the next few years. If you share my excitement, then I'd be grateful for any introductions you can make.

You can contact me at dougaldhine@gmail.com.

(And if you're wondering how I intend to combine this with my other interests and responsibilities, then hopefully the next few posts will help to answer that question.)